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 Steve Jobs’ Rant Prompts Mega Nerd FightPosted on Oct 19, 2010
How do you take down the guy who gave us the iPhone, the iPad and the wrinkle-free turtleneck? It helps if you speak fluent nerd. During an earnings call Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs issued what has been described as a five-minute rant (but sounds more like a five-minute reading enthusiastically, if you ask us) about his main mobile rival, Google’s Android. Jobs also dismissed his other competitors, including RIM, the company that makes the BlackBerry. The man behind the Android, Google’s Andy Rubin, responded by tweeting (for the first time) in code:
According to Electricpig.co.uk, “Translated into human, that’s the code you need to use Android in its open source form.” One of the CEOs of RIM responded by suggesting that Jobs and Co. live in a “distortion field.” That may be true judging by comments from TweetDeck CEO Iain Dodsworth. Jobs used Dodsworth’s popular Twitter client as an example of the “daunting challenge” of writing apps for Android. The developer took to Twitter to refute Jobs’ claims. —PZS Advertisement Previous item: Pentagon Approves Openly Gay Recruits Next item: Study: Hormone Treatments Boost Breast Cancer Risks New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
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By WriterOnTheStorm, October 20, 2010 at 7:26 am Link to this comment
Steve, what’s best for the customer, you ask?
Well, certainly not being used as leverage in your war against Adobe Flash.
Certainly not having only one carrier to choose from.
Certainly not a marketing strategy to release underperforming hardware simply so
Report thisthat Apple can later offer “new” versions (i.e. the version that was state of the art
when the original product was released) of their products for sale.
By Inherit The Wind, October 20, 2010 at 3:36 am Link to this comment
Yeah,like the iPhone or iPad is EVER going to displace the BlackBerry!
Steve, professionals LIKE a real keyboard.
Steve, professionals LIKE that eMail works with a B/B from the moment you get it.
Steve, professionals LIKE that B/B integrates seamlessly with their companies’ email systems.
Steve, professionals LIKE that their correspondence is private, even from government snoops (see India and Dubai).
Steve, professionals LIKE that Blackberries are reliable.
Steve, professionals LIKE that Blackberry’s coverage is world-wide and works EVERYWHERE, not just where AT&T didn’t manage to f*** up, even when it’s running on AT&T.
Steve, professionals LIKE that RIM is based on an underlying technology and methodology, not a slick interface that’s FUNCTIONALLY no different than Windows Mobile 6.1
Steve, you have to get it out of your head that you are God and know what is best for everyone, and what’s best for everyone is that they buy your stuff. You are now the Big Brother of your own 1984 commercial.
Report thisBy peterjkraus, October 19, 2010 at 6:57 pm Link to this comment
¿Que?
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