Think different
I also asked him about the Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’s recent comment that “folks who want porn can buy an Android phone.”
“I don’t really have a rationale for that,” he said. “It’s a different style of interacting with the public and the media.”
Mr. Rubin also addressed many other topics — like whether consumers actually care if their mobile phone software is “open” or not. He insisted that they would, comparing closed computing platforms to totalitarian governments that deprived their citizens of choice. “When they can’t have something, people do care. Look at the way politics work. I just don’t want to live in North Korea,” he said.
Google’s Andy Rubin on Everything Android - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
No comments:
Post a Comment