“We did not enter the search business. They [Google] entered the phone business. Make no mistake: they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them." - Steve Jobs Feb 2010
“This don't be evil mantra: It’s a load of crap.” - Steve Jobs Feb 2010
"We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace. I think that [Steve Jobs'] characterization of us entering after is not really reasonable." - Larry Page
"Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone." - Steve Jobs Apr 4 2010
"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." - Steve Jobs
“In reality, we think the open versus closed argument is just a smokescreen to try and hide the real issue, which is, what's best for the customer, fragmented versus integrated. We think Android is very, very fragmented and becoming more fragmented by the day .” Steve Jobs, Oct 2010
Contrasting Google's open OS with Apple's closed system with a “Draconian future, a future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice.” Vic Gundotra, Google
The definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make" - Andy Rubin Tweet
"We are very committed to the integrated approach. No matter how many times Google tries to characterize it as closed, we are confident that it will triumph over Google’s fragmented approach no matter how many times Google tries to characterize it as open" - Steve Jobs Oct 18 2010
"Apple's attempt to draw RIM into Apple's self-made debacle is unacceptable.One thing is for certain, RIM's customers don't need to use a case for their BlackBerry smartphone to maintain proper connectivity" - Mike Lazaridis, RIM
"We've now passed RIM, and I don't see them catching up with us in the foreseeable future" - Steve Jobs, Oct 2010
"For those of us who live outside of Apple's distortion field,.................As usual, whether the subject is antennas, Flash or shipments, there is more to the story and sooner or later, even people inside the distortion field will begin to resent being told half a story." - Jim Balsillie, Oct 19 2010
“They (Adobe) are lazy” - Steve Jobs Feb 2010
"Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice" - Steve Jobs Apr 4 2010
"It turns out that on the internet, people use Flash," Google vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra May 20 2010
"If Flash is the number one reason that Macs crash, it has as much to do with the Apple’s OS…On Jobs’ claim that Flash drains mobile gadget batteries: “Patently false.” - Shantanu Narayan Apr 29 2010
“Flash is an open specification.. It’s a published specification… Open systems always triumph.” - Shantanu Narayan Apr 29 2010
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