Icky Thump
It’s not that Steve Jobs is wrong about the Android user experience (UX). It is fragmented. It would be great if Google would be able to cut through the phone company bullshit and deliver the UX they’re craving. Steve Jobs knows as well as anyone else why that’s not happening.
Steve jobs is wrong when he says “There are 2 versions of the software, the current and the most recent predecessor to test against”. It’s not, again, that he’s per se wrong. But the simple fact is that he released an operating system without sufficient testing. When you’ve got a bunch of developers (In the case of the Droid X: Google, Motaroloa, Verizon) all working to put their own stamp on UX, we can expect some weirdness. So the greatest tool Apple has is their end-to-end control of everything that goes into or onto an iPhone.
Then Apple releases an “update” (iOS4) that causes massive crashing and problems for everyone who installs it on a certain, apple approved, handset (iPhone 3G). Suddenly it’s not worth the price premium. If I’m going to have a sub optimal experience– it’s an insult for Steve Jobs to charge me more for it. For him to claim that his total control is a virtue, and then exercise that control in a manner almost calculated to cause me to hand Apple more money for a newer bit of hardware… that’s about what I’ve come to expect from Apple.
And that’s why I’m never going to buy an Apple.
