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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