Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Oct 2010 12:23 UTC
Catfight! Get out your mobile phones and start filming, because two important personalities in the mobile world just got into a catfight. After the presentation of Apple's (once again) stellar quarterly results (what's with the low iPad sales, though?), Apple's CEO Steve Jobs went on a bit of a tangent regarding Android (among other things). Google's Andy Rubin, the father of Android, responded in a pretty fun way via Twitter.
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Member since:2009-09-17
Jobs seems to have got his info direct from the developers.
http://blog.tweetdeck.com/android-ecosystem
""Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android? Errr nope, no we didn't."
And neither did Jobs.
Member since:2005-09-10
I read their blog about a week ago... their tone is rather celebratory, along the lines of "look how cool is that." I don't think Jobs' way of using TweetDeck in his rant is a faithful representation of what they actually claim on their blog. It's a huge spin "has to contend with" dramatizes the whole situation, and he concludes with depicting coding for Android a "daunting challenge." If this is not spin for you, I don't know what is. TweetDeck developers recognized it as such and debunked it.
I hope this clarifies my comment... well, actually their comment, I merely reported on it, didn't think I would need to explain the obvious 
Member since:2009-06-20
And neither did Jobs.
"Twitter client, Twitter Deck [sic], recently launched their app for Android. They reported that they had to contend with more than 100 different versions of Android software on 244 different handsets. The multiple hardware and software iterations present developers with a daunting challenge."
Maybe you should buy a dictionary app.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 23:22 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:04 UTC
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:01 UTC
"In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 17:52 UTC
"The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 13:38 UTC
"The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week. Kodera was responsible for HTC's overall product strategy, which makes the departure especially notable on the heels of the global launch of the make-or-break One. It's not just Kodera. In the past three-odd months, HTC has lost a number of employees in rapid succession." I really hope HTC pulls it together.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 22:06 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:45 UTC
"There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate view it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and two other Apple executives testified before Congress, explaining why they're holding most of their international income in Irish subsidiaries like Apple Operations International, which declare no tax residency anywhere in the world. AOI hasn't filed a tax return anywhere in the world for the last five years, yet it earned $30 billion in income from 2009 to 2012, according to a Senate report released yesterday." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's just. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many more - these companies might not be breaking any laws, but it's obvious to anyone that what they are doing is scummy.
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Steve Jobs:
"We think Android is very, very fragmented..."
"We think integrated will trump fragmented...
"...we will triumph over Google’s fragmented approach"...
"where PCs have the same interface, Android is very fragmented...
Fragmented Fragmented FRAGMENTED FRAGMENTED.
BOOO!
Yeah, yeah we got the message. Fragmentation as a problem has been a popular meme ever since the launch of the platform. And yet, we don't see any slowdown in Android adaptation. Markets that would try to prevent developers releasing on multiple markets will be unpopular - I don't think anyone would try that even.
What we have here is simply competition. The best market with the best UI, proposal for developers, easy of use, etc. will win, the rest will die, or become less popular. Regardless, 99% of all important apps will be present on the top three markets at any given time. Basically, if no single entity controls the distribution channel, than there's competition for a) users b) developers - and that's cool. The FRAGMENTATION rhetoric is a huge spin, just like this one:
"Twitter client, Twitter Deck [sic], recently launched their app for Android. They reported that they had to contend with more than 100 different versions of Android software on 244 different handsets. The multiple hardware and software iterations present developers with a daunting challenge."
Thank you Mr Jobs, and now let's see the developer's reply:
"Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android? Errr nope, no we didn't. It wasn't."
Nice try there :-D