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If only Google hadn't stuck it to them with Android ALL users would be better off. We'd have Google apps on iPhone hardware and UIs. It hurts to think about how
by spullara 14y ago
If only Google hadn't stuck it to them with Android ALL users would be better off. We'd have Google apps on iPhone hardware and UIs. It hurts to think about how much better it could be.
- cheald 14y agoIt's incredibly myopic to argue that the mobile landscape would be better off without Android providing a compelling competitive force.
- commandar 14y agoWe'd be better off in a world with no Android, where RIM still hasn't shipped a modern smartphone OS, and with a Windows Mobile/Phone environment that has broken application compatibility twice in the past two years?
- sandGorgon 14y agoI'll see your iPhone hardware and raise you Nokia.
- nathan_long 14y agoWhat makes you think that iPhone would be as good as it is if it wasn't fighting for customers who can get other smartphones?
- kbutler 14y agoI'm 90% sure this is an example of Poe's Law (that it is impossible to tell the difference between sincere extremism and a parody of extremism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law). But it is worth remembering the various ideas that iOS "borrowed" from Android (or the improvements Android forced iOS to make) - including decent notifications, wireless syncing, multitasking, etc. Google for more. Apple (and everyone) improves more rapidly with a viable competitor.