Michal Ždanský On October 18th, Apple's conference call was hosted by none other than Steve Jobs. In the five-minute recording that appeared on the Internet, he first gave some numbers from the sales of iOS devices, then moved on to Android. Here is a summary of the audio recording.
- An average of 275 iOS devices are activated per day, with the highest figure reaching around 000. In contrast, Google reported no more than 300 units.
. - Steve Jobs complains that there is no reliable data on the sales of Android devices. He hopes that individual manufacturers will start publishing them soon. Steve is primarily concerned with knowing who is the sales winner in a given quarter.
. - Google defines the difference between iOS and Android as Closedness versus Openness. Jobs, on the other hand, claims that this comparison is not entirely accurate and pushes the difference to the level of Integration versus Fragmentation. This statement is supported by the fact that Android has no unified resolution or graphical interface. This is primarily determined by the manufacturer and often adds its own interface to the device, such as HTC with its Sense. This disparity is confusing for customers, according to Jobs.
. - The burden imposed on the developers of the Android platform is mainly related to the previous point. They have to adapt their applications to different resolutions and different device parameters, whereas iOS is fragmented for only 3 different resolutions and two types of devices.
. - He chose the Twitter app as an example – TweetDeck. Here, the developers had to create as many as 100 different versions of Android that have to work on 244 different devices, which is a big challenge for the developers. However, he denied this statement Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeck's head of development, who said Android fragmentation isn't a big deal. Developing the different versions was not nearly as much work as Steve Jobs suggests, with only two developers working on the app.
. - Vodafone and other operators are to open their own app stores that will work outside of the Android Market. As a result, customers will often find it difficult to find the application they are looking for, as they will have to search for it in several different markets. It won't be easy for developers either, who will have to decide where to place their application. In contrast, iOS has only one integrated App Store. Jobs didn't forget to point out that he can currently find three times more applications on the App Store than on the Android Market.
. - If Google is right and it really is a difference in openness, Steve points to Microsoft's strategy in selling music and the nature of Windows Mobile, commenting that openness may not always be a winning solution. In both cases, Microsoft abandoned the open approach and imitated the just-criticized closed approach of Apple.
. - Finally, Steve adds that the Closedness vs. Openness is just a blurring of the real problem, which is the fragmentation of the Android platform. Jobs, on the other hand, sees an integrated, i.e. unified, platform as the ultimate trump card that will win over customers.
You can watch the whole video here:
In the text, I feel the envy of Jobs towards Google and its Android.
iOS devices are activated an average of 275 times a day (this is how Apple spies on us how many times we activate devices), I believe that Androids are activated more and not 000 times.
It's just the arrogance of Jobs (we are the best and no one else can be). At the beginning of each Keynote, in which new devices are presented, a graph is used that Apple creates itself.
PS: I am a happy owner of an Iphone 3G, but what Apple (Jobs) has been showing lately smells of arrogance and insolence.
I won't answer everything (I don't agree with most of your things) but one demanded an answer.
An iOS device is activated an average of 275 times a day :D:D:D You can't imagine how many times you click the home button on your iPhone 000G. Rather, how many new iOS devices connect to iTunes for the first time and thus activate. (:D:D:D This amused me)
If we considered clicking on hb as activation, then with my iPhone4 alone there would be about 100 a day (perhaps more), and now multiply that by the tens (perhaps hundreds) of millions of people who have iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads...
I think Jobs has a lot to be proud of. What he brought to so many people in his lifetime deserves at least some admiration. I don't think it's a matter of rudeness, more of a matter of precision. On the other hand, there is of course the competition that Apple has to face. However, Apple has been the flagship for many years and has set the direction for more or less the entire world in the field of hi-end technology.
to 007: I don't understand why "envy"? In every way, iOS apps are winning, so what would Jobs envy Google? Maybe he is sometimes arrogant, on the other hand, he does what he does very well. I have a MacBook Pro and an iPhone4… both run great, I regret 9 years on Windows machines. I never played games much so it took me less than a week to get used to OSX. But I'm not against Win, I have no problem with them, I just don't want to have them at home anymore. Nothing more…
In addition, there are a lot of people, Google fans, etc., who go to Apple for the task of Google. I'd say Steve got it right aka Steve Jobs Strikes Back :))).
Exactly as Kare writes, you will only know the real difference between Windows and OSX when you start using it, most Apple detractors are just beating empty straw, because they simply haven't tried it. Just as there is an unreal difference between using WinMobile (it's not even worth talking about WinPhone7) and iOS. I'm not even talking about the design, functionality and simplicity of the Apple product.
It's unbelievable how many Apple fanatics there are here :D I think you only need to have an IQ of about 40 to recognize Steven Jobs about Android in that article.
My opinion is that recently there is a MEGADEMONSKYCRUEL pressure on apple both from the competition and from the customers. I'm an applist through and through, but I think he really can't handle the pressure. But I'm not surprised. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. I'm a little sad about what's happening in and around Apple. But there is no way around it, this world is based on laws, the stronger wins, and the leader of the pack, whether it's Apple or Audi or mrkvosoft, must be on the lookout and always have sharp claws ready. No one is infallible and unfortunately someone always likes to ride on the biggest ones out of envy..
Half of the apps in the AppStore are useless.
The iPhone is the most useful phone I've had (since os 3.0).
I don't understand the point of explaining and defending ala Steve Jobs, it speaks of the weak self-confidence of this gentleman. The real quality of Android or iOS will show itself over time, even without the bullshit. .
Again, from the critical posts, I sense experts who only smelled Apple in this millennium. What SJ has been able to do since the 80s and especially in the late 90s when the Apple brand was almost sunk by the Italian mafia in the coming globalization and he did not give up and returned to "his child" and resurrected everything in recent years. Let's be happy, it could have turned out just like a fluke with ATARI.
The majority of people, I would say 90%, who use Apple and defend it, regardless of what product it is, only started to know something more about Apple in the years after 2000. In the Czech Republic, this percentage is perhaps much larger, or rather "we knew , that something like this exists, but we never used it" (I'm not saying that no one held it in their hands)..