Tag: Android

WHO YA GONNA CALL?

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“Google totally slimed Sun.”

Java inventor James Gosling, on Google’s liberal use of the programming language for its Android operating system, Wired, 30 April 2012

LET’S NOT BRING UP THE FACEBOOK DEAL, OKAY?

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“It jumped the shark when it went to Android.”

Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller, on why he deleted his account on the Instagram photo-sharing service in a fit of operating-system pique, 9to5Mac, 19 April 2012

SHARE ALL THE MOMENTS!

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“With the support and cross-pollination of ideas and talent at a place like Facebook, we hope to create an even more exciting future for Instagram and Facebook alike.”

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, on selling out his photo-sharing service’s 30 million users to a company best known for its creative ideas about privacy, Instagram Blog, 9 April 2012

A THERMONUCLEAR RELATIONSHIP

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“I think the Android differences were actually for show. I had a relationship with Steve.”

Google CEO Larry Page, dismissing the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s threats of “thermonuclear war” over Google’s slavishly imitative iPhone knockoffs, BusinessWeek, 4 April 2012

FIRST!

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“We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace. I think that characterization of us entering after is not really reasonable.”

Google cofounder Larry Page, longwindedly disputing Apple’s claim that Google’s Android army was a response to the iPhone, Reuters, 9 July 2010