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Tim Cook talks .... Galaxy device and the experience wasn't pleasant!!!!!

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http://www.techradar.com/us/news/co...s-ambitions-awkward-samsung-relations-1117624

Cook was asked point blank what sets Apple's tablet strategy apart from Samsung and Microsoft's, and the CEO returned to his favorite theme of coalescence to answer.
"Again, if you look at our North Star, we're focused on making the best products, so ours is very product-centric," he said. "We're also marrying hardware, software and services.
"If you think about Android, it's more like the Windows PC model. The operating system comes from company A. Company B is doing some integration work, and maybe the services come from yet somewhere else.
"I think we know the kind of customer experience that produces."
Cook has played with Microsoft's Surface, an unspecified Galaxy device (or two) and other non-iOS machines, and the experience wasn't pleasant.
"[Some] of these are confusing, multiple OSs with multiple UIs," he said. "They steer away from simplicity. We think the customer wants all the clutter removed."
What does Cook think Apple does better? Tablet-optimized apps, for one. And staying away from netbooks, which were "flimsy products with crappy, cramped keyboards."
 
As the CEO of Apple, I didn't really expect him to say anything different. What I do believe, is that he doesn't believe all of the negative stuff he's saying about Android. He definitely sees some things that he is concerned about. I mean, they're doing commercials about the noise canceling mic on the back for heavens sake. They have nothing new to bring to the table.
 
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I don't think that Apple compares themselves to other companies, just to themselves. So they try to improve their devices each year and don't concern themselves with being leaps and bounds behind everyone else in the tech industry.

Every company that is in the retail business has to compare to others good or bad, it what makes a company tick!

competition is a bitch!
 
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Never forget...
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Apple just hasn't impressed me lately. Everything up until this new phase of iPad Mini/Retina Display/iPhone 5 has been pretty decent progress. But now Apple is going into this phase of making the same thing but bigger, or smaller, or more Retina-y, and we're seeing an real inverse in market standing.

Microsoft and Android has all of the innovation whilst Apple recycles the same ideas. Whatever happened to "think different"?
 
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Maybe is just me but this is what I'm thinking.

Tim cook, happily says that he wants the apple user experience to be "simplicity" right Ok, I can get that.

But this leads me to assume that Tim thinks we are all thick as two short planks and as such use his os, made for people thick as two short planks, which will in turn, over time, lead said users to lose the capacity to understand more complex things, leading to a degradation of the gene pool and a round lower IQ's as the generations pass...

This is either genius in terms of Darwins law - natural selection, or the blind stupidity of a simplistic minimalist cult leader trying to overthrow the world with his own dictation. Either way, simple things, simple minds. At least other os's encourage you to use that muscle in your head for self development and evolution.
 
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When you are used to one OS, using another one will feel confusing. As someone who is more familiar with Android, I found iOS to be rather confusing when I first used it.

Had to use a Mac in school - all the programs worked the same, I just couldn't figure out how to search for a lost file if I hit save, rather than save as. I finally either stuck on the file extension or named the file with an obscenity.

Got familiar with a Palm PDA, and had no trouble with Android. The stuff I had to learn was rooting. Palm didn't have all the extra junk and you could delete a lot of it. I appreciated how efficient the Palm apps were.

Using Ubuntu for regular computing isn't bad - trying to find an answer to a problem is lousy. A lot of the info was written prior to 2010, the last time someone asked the question.

What annoys me is the generalities. "Everyone will love this" and all of the above are just as guilty of it.

I've mostly got my phone the way I like it. Like an Iphone, it works. Unlike an Iphone, I can change my mind and redo the whole phone if I feel like it.

Re Tim Cook: Poor baby - he had to THINK about what he was doing rather than preaching to the choir.
 
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I agree with some that I have no idea how to use an iPhone. Okay, I can launch an app, but to do just basic stuff confuses me (like settings and what not).
We have an iTouch at work we use just for Pandora. As in, Pandora is the only app installed. And it still crashes from time to time. :rolleyes:

At least Woz is a reasonable guy:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...-founder-Wozniak-loves-Googles-Nexus-One.html
Hehe! :)
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Honestly, as much as I dislike Apple products, I have to say, that I bet Google's CEO would say similar things about Apple. As a CEO of a certain company, it's his job to promote that company, even if it means badmouthing his competitors.
Scott

I don't recall Schmidt or Page denouncing Apple's products, only their business model of suing competition. There's a difference between promoting your own products and services, and ridiculing your competitors. That's a particularly pungent habit of Ballmer, and it's not flattering Cook either. And I think it generally sends the opposite message to consumers.
 
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