Linux is Winning the Smartphones Competition
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-07-05 22:07:53 UTC
- Modified: 2010-07-05 22:07:53 UTC
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Summary: Apple continues to fall behind the Linux-based Android, based on some of these latest news items
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Google: Apple Is Making Our Job Easy
Probably most notable of his quotes was the following:
“We don’t have a plan to beat Apple, that’s not how we operate. We’re trying to do something different than Apple and the good news is that Apple is making that very easy.”
The statement, made in reference to the 2.2 version of Android being rolled out shortly after the launch of iPhone 4, opens quite a few doors about the inner workings of Google. For one, as Schmidt is quick to point out, the business models are drastically different between the two companies.
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Apple’s app store, filled with “App farms” being used to steal. [Examples]
As the story of of iTunes accounts being hacked continues to develop, we’ve come across a number of what we would call “App Farms” in iTunes being used to scam users out of their money.
Comments
Needs Sunlight
2010-07-06 14:10:14
Judging from the Fuji Kiosk incident, Windows is a no-show in other embedded systems, as well. To be fair, the Fuji photokiosk incident was human error: some manager erred in allowing Windows to be used in the design and some engineer (or wannabee) erred in failing to get a legitimate software engineering or computer science background and human resources erred in letting that wannabee through the hiring process.
Human error of that nature is something we see more of unless posers and charlatans are rousted from colleges and universities. Windows in the school = Fail.