Dissecting Android's openness

Oh, Steve Jobs, you certainly do know how to get tongues wagging. During last quarter's earnings call he attacked Google's stance that Android is the superior mobile OS because it is "open," restating the debate into terms of "integrated versus fragmented" instead -- with iOS on the integrated side, of course. He went so far as to cite Tweetdeck's analysis that it had to deal with "more than one hundred" flavors of Android when developing its Twitter client -- something that seems to have ruffled its feathers.
Google's Andy Rubin responded with a rather elegant tweet (shown at the top of this article) that claims to demonstrate just how open Android really is, although our own Victor Agreda Jr wasn't convinced of the relevance. However the real story of how open Android is and isn't -- and of what that means -- is far more complex than can be captured in a tweet.Continue reading Dissecting Android's opennessDissecting Android's openness originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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