It’s war! Again. Or still. Whatever. Apple CEO Steve Jobs launched an “epic rant” during an earnings call this week blasting Google’s “fragmented,” er, “open” approach to apps and extolling the virtues of Apple’s “closed,” I mean “integrated” iOS platform.
“We think Android is very fragmented and getting more fragmented by the day… We believe integrated will trump fragmented every time.”
In retaliation, Google mobile strategy chief Andy Rubin apparently posted the following dorky reply on Twitter:
the definition of open: ‘mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make’.
That’s a set of Linux commands for copying Android.
Does Rubin have a point? No, seriously. What’s his point?
Since Google hasn’t mounted a coherent defense against fragmen… I mean the open approach to mobile platforms, does anyone here want to try?
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