[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[grobdriver]

You can have my DroidX when you take it from my cold, dead fingers!

[cuban leaf]

The Wright brothers tried to patent flying. Imagine if one of the automakers had successfully patented using an internal combustion engine to power a vehicle, or patented the use of inflated tires.

[real saxophonist]

I got an Android phone specifically because it was not an Apple product.

[cuban leaf]

—Mr Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android’s similarity to iOS as “grand theft”. —

Airbus airplanes are similar to Boeing airplanes. Most passengers don’t know the difference. Is there grand theft involved?

[cuban leaf]

—Mr Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android’s similarity to iOS as “grand theft”. —

Heck, I go through a lot of rental cars. Except when I rented a Hummer H3, they all pretty much look the same inside.

[Carry_Okie]

Mr Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android's similarity to iOS as "grand theft".

Would that be anything like swiping the Mac GUI from PARC Meester Jobs???

[WayneS]

“Android still lives”

[Sicon]

Mr Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android's similarity to iOS as "grand theft".

This would be the same Steve Jobs who said something to the effect of "We [Apple] have never been ashamed to steal a great idea" or something along those lines? Didn't Jobs get the idea for the mouse from some government or military computer system he saw, among other things?

At least now his liberalism begins to make sense - he was a hyprocrite, like all liberals.

[Incorrigible]

Everybody would be much happier with a Windows Phone than either the iPhone or the Andriod anyway

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/

[rwfromkansas]

I used to hate Apple stuff but now have a Macbook Pro and iPad and love them.

I have been a Droid person....quite strongly so actually. I hated the lack of freedom you have with an iDevice.

However, from just a few days/weeks into getting my Droid last April, it has been sluggish and slow to respond, only getting worse with time. This is apparently a problem with a lot of Droid models, not just my “original” one.

I am seriously considering going to the iPhone when I can do so in November.

I will miss the following: option to run Flash in the rare times I need it, widgets/customizing home screens....have a calendar and to do widget that are both invaluable and do not kill system resources since they are largely static, moving phone “desktops backgrounds,” easy app for free tethering (use this on the few trips from TX back to KS and refuse to pay Verizon a monthly tethering fee for something I only use twice a year), and finally, the ability to use my phone as a USB drive to transfer files back and forth without having to use Itunes to sync everything.

That said, while I will miss those things, I will gain a phone that actually WORKS. And some of those issues can be remedied once a jailbreak comes available for the iPhone 4s.

I was willing to live with the Droid because I wanted those things that Apple refuses to allow.

But, at some point, a phone that doesn’t take a minute to load the home screen after you wake it from sleep is a bigger desire than having Flash. I can’t tell you how annoying it is waiting for my Droid to “think” about everything. My wife’s iPhone 4s is lightning fast.

[ontap]

ipods and droids, aren't both of them products of hypocritical liberals?

[bvw]

Stolen product? Sort of like Smalltalk, or Xerox Parc?

[6ppc]

I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong."

I suspect Apples shareholders would prefer a different approach.

[Paradox]

I have an android device, I Would never buy an iProduct, unless the price was right, which to me it isn't, and probably wont ever be.

That said, Android is a ripoff of iOS, at least the look and feel. There are 100 ways of doing a touch interface, look at Windows Phone, quite different from iOS. Android is a ripoff, so I can understand Steve's problem with it.

Not a fanboy or a hater, just an honest user.

[HamiltonJay]

As a developer and user of both, Job’s is right. But then again, Jobs “stole” the GUI OS from XEROX, so what comes around goes around.

[NormsRevenge]

sour grapes.. it sounds to me.

if every “inventor” got his or her fair due, many of today’s digital magnates would not even be on the list of who came up with what... only those who saw fit to refine or appropriate “secret technologies” and improve them , not exploit them.

[LibLieSlayer]

My Android is still working fine... Jobs... not so much.

LLS

[Larry Lucido]

Guess that’s one item on his bucket list he didn’t quite get to. :-)

[Swordmaker]

Steve Jobs vowed to destroy Android! —PING!

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