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Jobs Bashes Android In Analysts' Call Announcing Record Results

Apple reported substantial increases in both its profits and revenue yesterday but gross margins fell from 41.8% a year ago to 36.9% in the most recent quarter and it stock slipped down 6% in after-hours trading on the news. While iPads and iPhones are flying off the shelves, they tend to offer lower margins than Mac computers.

CEO Steve Jobs made a rare appearance on the analyst call, Troy Wolverton reports, and he took the occasion to bash Google and its Android OS. He called Google's mobile efforts a "mess" and argued that analysts who frame the battle between Android and iPhone as the difference between "open" and "closed" ecosystems have got it all wrong.

The real difference between the two approaches is between integration (iPhone) and fragmentation (Android), Jobs maintains, claiming the many different devices, screen sizes and versions of Android can frustrate and confuse consumers as well as software developers. "We're providing users with things that just work," says the master spinmeister. "We think that's the winning approach in the end."

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