It's described as a "classic rant" that's less that and more a calm, reasoned explanation of Apple's product differentiation from Google Android in the smartphone wars.
Some highlights:
First, Steve Jobs says that "Apple has activated 275,000 IOS (IPhone Operating System) devices per day average for the past 30-days with a peak of about 300,000 IOS devices on a few of those days. Unfortunately, there is no solid data on how many Android phones are shipped each quarter. We hope that manufacturers will soon start recording the number of Android handsets they ship each quarter, but today that isn't the case."
Then Jobs focused on the "open versus closed" argument: "Google loves to characterise Android as ‘open’ and iOS and the iPhone as ‘closed.' We find this a bit disingenuous, and clouding the real difference between our two approaches. Android is very fragmented. HTC and Motorola install proprietary user interfaces to differentiate themselves from the commodity Android experience. The user’s left to figure it all out. Compare this with the iPhone, where every handset works the same."
Jobs then included Twitter's known issues with Android "Twitter clients, Twitterdeck recently launched their apps for Android. They reported they had to contend with 100 different versions of Android on 244 different handsets. The multiple hardware and software iterations presents developers with a daunting challenge."
Ouch to Google. But Jobs didn't stop there. He then deconstructed the Android platform fragmentation problem, where some Android apps work on some Android phones, but not others: "Many Android apps only work on selected Android handsets, running selected Android versions. Compare this with iPhone, where there are two versions of the software, the current and the most recent predecessor, to test against.
Here's the video containing the "Five Minute Anti-Google Android Rant:"
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