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Editorial : Why Apple is afraid of Google and Android

on April 10, 2010 – 11:46 pm34 Comments

The biggest threat to Apple iPhone is now Google’s Android Operating System. RIM’s Blackberry is also a threat but not as big as Android.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs publicly expressed his anger against Google during the iPhone 4.0 OS Q&A session. Read more to find out what he said.

“You know, there’s a porn store for Android. Anyone can download them. You can, your kids can. That’s just not a place we want to go,” Jobs said

Steve Jobs also unveiled iAd – Apple’s own mobile advertising platform and to quote him “Listen, we don’t know much about this advertising stuff. We’re learning.We tried to buy this company called AdMob and Google came in and snatched them from us. We bought this other much smaller company called Quattro and they’re teaching us. But we’re babes in the woods.”

He admitted that Apple lacks knowledge of advertising and they tried to buy Admob and Google bought them.

Apple is suing HTC and Nokia for patent infringements but Apple is suing HTC mainly due to their Android handsets and this was seen as a move against Google rather  the handset maker HTC.

Apple has also removed Google branding from iPhone 4.0 OS and the iPad according to Macrumours

There have also been reports that Apple might pick Microsoft Bing as the default search engine on the iPhone.

Now why is Apple afraid of Google Android ? iPhone users are not finding the device interesting. Many users are disappointed about lack of hardware improvements.  In USA, iPhone is sold exclusively on AT&T and many users have switched to rival networks due to network issues.

And owning an iPhone is a costly affair incase you’re on a contract. The surge in iPod sales indicate that users love the iPhone OS but not the iPhone and the bills associated with it ! An Android or Symbian phone along with an iPod touch would be the best combo for users who want the best of both worlds !

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Varun Krish is a Mobile Technology Enthusiast and has been blogging about mobile phones since 2005. His current phones include the Nokia Lumia 800 and Apple iPhone 4S. You can follow him on Twitter @varunkrish and on Google+ You can also mail Varun Krish

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  • TJ

    the Apple
    fanboys 1st said mutli tasking sucks and it’s
    useless now that sort of “multi tasking”
    coming to the iphone they see it as the 2nd
    coming of christ, 1st they said MMS sucks and
    no one use it now that it came to the iphone
    they brag about having mms in the iphone
    that other phones had for a decade, 1st they
    said front camera is useless and no one use it
    now that the iphone 4 gen might come with
    front camera it’s like the 2nd coming of christ,
    1st they said video recording is useless and
    sucks now that it came to the iphone last year
    they bragged about iphones capable of
    recording vga videos lol while other phones
    already had d1 and hd video recording, 1st they
    said more than 3 megapixel is useless now
    that the iphone 4 gen is coming with 5
    megapixel they see it as the 2nd coming of
    christ. the say the same thing with flash
    player, but again time will prove them wrong
    eventually.
    These apple fanboys Ho Ho

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