Android vs. iPhone

General feelings in response to this post and other similar musings this week.

1. I love how all this Android hoopla surrounding Google I/O is going down in May, when for the last two years Apple has announced new iPhone hardware in June. So, enjoy your 3 weeks of cheer?

2. Have the iPhone leaks and OS4 developer preview made people forget Apple’s taste for showmanship? You don’t think they have anything up their sleeves?

3. Heard of a small cloud music streaming startup Apple recently aquired?

4. The Dan Lyons article Beust refers to is a turd with a variety of inaccuracies. Apple’s lack of support for Flash on iPhone is not out of spite. Apple has offered tethering for 11 months on iPhone, AT&T just hasn’t enabled it in the US. iPhone users have been able to buy music over the air since day one. An announced feature or product is nowhere near the same thing as a delivered one.

5. But the worst this week has to have been Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra:

“If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one
company, one carrier was the future.”

Google acquired Android in August of 2005. iPhone was announced in January of 2007. More comment on Google’s revisionist history here.


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