Apple CEO Tim Cook Trash Talks Android
Tim Cook says that buying an outdated Android phone is like running iOS 3.
Apple CEO Tim Cook gave critical words about Android in an interview with BusinessWeek. Despite Android now being more popular than iOS, Cooks says he's not just looking at the raw numbers: "when you look at things like customer satisfaction and usage, you see the gap between Android and iOS being huge."
If one were to look at numbers, however, NetMarketShare attributes nearly 55 percent of all mobile traffic to iOS, while Android only made up 28 percent. Tim Cook looks at that stat to suggest that even though there are more Android devices sold, people are using their iPhones and iPads more often.
"Does a unit of market share matter if it’s not being used?" Cook questioned. "For us, it matters that people use our products. We really want to enrich people’s lives, and you can’t enrich somebody’s life if the product is in the drawer."
Cook is also points out that problem with Android fragmentation, saying that a consumer can walk into a phone store to find many different versions of the OS, some of which are outdated. "And so by the time they exit, they’re using an operating system that’s three or four years old. That would be like me right now having in my pocket iOS 3. I can’t imagine it."
Of course, it's part of Tim Cook's job to beat his chest to his competitors, but Android is still growing rapidly. Nokia was once the undisputed leader in smartphones, and it too was eventually unseated. All it would take to extend Android's lead even further is for a Chinese phone maker like Xiaomi to have a modest hit in its home country.
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When was the last time you heard Larry Page say something negative about the products of a competitor?
When was the last time you heard Larry Page say something negative about the products of a competitor?
I don't think Tim knows what's being measure or why an iOS device will almost always a lot more data traffic than an Android device.
If I didn't know any better I would think that Tim Cook works for the GOP the way he blinds himself by skewing numbers
When was the last time you heard Larry Page say something negative about the products of a competitor?
I think he made a Bing joke back in 2009, other then that though never. I guess the guys at Google are far to busy doing real innovative work to worry about it.
Don't be surprised. Apple, like Microsoft has become a largely "market reactive" company. What this means is that they wait to see what new ideas are successful and then adjust their product line accordingly. This translates into a device cycle that is typically about 6 months behind the competition. Apple in the past directed this cycle, but now it's actually one of the slower companies to react. Companies that fall into this trend typically lose market share. Apple's brand image is propping them up, but that can only last so long. This is exactly what happened with Nokia so it's funny that Tim mentioned that.
Samsung used to be this way when they copied some of Apple's work early on. Now they (along with Google and others) are the innovators. The Galaxy note is a good example of this. Samsung makes a product and creates a market for it (in this case the phablet market) and everyone else copies. Now there are rumors of Apple doing the same.
When was the last time you heard Larry Page say something negative about the products of a competitor?
I think he made a Bing joke back in 2009, other then that though never. I guess the guys at Google are far to busy doing real innovative work to worry about it.
Who hasn't made a bing joke? LOL
Does that mobile traffic include net traffic or are the stats only for America? Because if it does then a lot of people living in developing countries that owns an Android phone(Android phones are cheaper than iPhones in developing countries) wont contribute to this traffic stat because they have poor internet.
"We really want to enrich people’s lives"
Enrich the rich(and dumb). Good luck.
When was the last time you heard Larry Page say something negative about the products of a competitor?
I think he made a Bing joke back in 2009, other then that though never. I guess the guys at Google are far to busy doing real innovative work to worry about it.
Who hasn't made a bing joke? LOL
It reminds me of the old internet explorer joke.
Internet explorer, its hands down the best browser for downloading chrome or firefox.
I always run my Apple Devices with the latest OS. I am first in like for the new OS upgrades checking the day its available all day until I am able to start the download. there have been times that applications no longer work on the new OS but this is consistent across all devices and is always a developer that is not updating his application.
then I turn to my Android world. I agree there are some interesting options for applications that are just not available from the iTunes store. Things that make my phone\tablet mine. Themes and utilities that apple is just not interested in providing. (There is some merit also to not allowing this sort of application. It removes the differences ensuring that use of the device is always consistent)
Back to the Android world. have a device running version x of the os. Discovered that there was a good deal on anther device that was running version x.2.2 of the OS and had to have it. When I went to install my investment of android apps on this new device I discovered that not all the apps were compatible with my new device. At first I figured I was looking at another situation where a developer was not updating his apps for me.
I was wrong that was not the cause. Because there were different archatectures making up the device it was actually a hardware incompatibility. My new device regardless of OS was not about to support this specific set of applications.
Now I don't care. I still like the new device better and I was able to find alternate applications to achieve the same that the apps that did not work.
But my story is at the heart of this problem. Its not that apple is better. It is not that Samsung is not a good hardware manufacturer. Its not that Google Android is not a great OS. It is this. Because Apple has control over both the hardware and the OS they are able to always deliver a more consistent integration between the 2.
Yes we do see phones come out that support Androids raw OS in the form of Nexus. But these are only a small sliver of the actual market share. Suggesting then that Google, Samsung and Developers have a lot more to have to consider to ensure a smooth user experience and unlike Apple the Hardware Manufacturers, the OS Manufacturers and the Application Developers do not have a direct line to each other. and even if they did their decisions have to consider the reset of the Android population.