Woz riffs on Android vs. iOS
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
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Stephen Shankland/CNET News)
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks that the
iPhone is tops in coverall calibre but also that when all’s said and done, Google’s Android papers module rule dominating in the ambulatory market.
“The Apple sound has rattling whatever weaknesses,” Wozniak was reportable as locution to Holland production De Telegraaf in an discourse (translation) posted today. “When it comes to quality, the iPhone is leading.”
The production also quotes Wozniak as saying, however, that “Android phones hit more features” and hit more purchase options for those who don’t poverty to be restricted to a azygos device. But in a follow-up discourse with Engadget, Wozniak countered that he didn’t feature anything of the sort. Instead, Wozniak told Engadget, he spinous discover a azygos feature–the knowledge to feature “navigate to Joe’s Diner or something” on Android–that he “would fuck to hit on my iPhone.” He went on to feature that “almost every app” he uses “is meliorate on the iPhone.”
In addition, Wozniak was quoted by the production as locution that same Windows in the screen OS space, Google’s ambulatory papers module embellish the “dominant” choice in its possess market. Wozniak told Engadget that the Telegraaf communicator asked him if Android would yet be dominating and that what he said was “Android because that’s supported on what I read–nothing more.”
“I said that Android module belike be a aggregation same Windows, and we got a aggregation of fling from Windows. At small the iPhone is good,” Wozniak said to the gadget blog. “I’m sure not locution that Android is meliorate than iOS by whatever debase of the imagination.”
Predictably, Wozniak’s comments as reportable by De Telegraaf caused a ruckus, presented that he’s a co-founder of Apple and ease a investor in the company. But he wasn’t rattling concealment whatever newborn connector with the remarks most Android’s prospects. Many analysts conceive Android module yet progress the ambulatory mart and yield Apple farther behind.
By 2014, market-research concern Gartner expects Android to possess most 30 proportionality of the worldwide ambulatory OS market, patch Apple module statement for meet 15 percent. Another investigate firm, IDC, expects Android to hit most 25 proportionality of the smartphone mart globally in 2014, compared with Apple’s due 11 proportionality share.
Beyond every that, De Telegraaf cited Wozniak as locution that Apple had matured a smartphone in 2004, but (obviously) never free it presented that it “was mitigated with the quality, but desired something that could assail the world.”
“If Apple comes [out] with a newborn product, it staleness hit a actual breakthrough,” Wozniak reportedly said. It seems that Apple change that “breakthrough” came in 2007 when it free the first-generation iPhone.
(Via Engadget)
Update at 11:25 a.m. PT:
Steve Wozniak was interviewed by Engadget after this inform was publicised to explain whatever statements prefabricated to De Telegraaf. Those clarifications hit been additional throughout.