Android Is Open? That's A "Farce," Says Facebook Developer Joe Hewitt (GOOG, AAPL)

San Francisco Chronicle - Jay Yarow - 20 Oct, 2010
Andy Rubin fighting with Steve Jobs over Android being open is a "farce," says prominent Facebook employee Joe Hewitt, because "both refuse to share the one ...

RIM CEO calls Steve Jobs' comments reality distortions

Inquirer - Lawrence Latif - 20 Oct, 2010
IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG for rivals to dissect some of the unsubstantiated claims made by Apple CEO Steve Jobs during his recent audition for a ...

Android and RIM teams lay into Jobs - but Google criticised on 'open' claim

The Guardian - 20 Oct, 2010
'Yeah, we'll have your phone compiled in a minute.' Photo by pheaber on Flickr. Some rights reserved Everyone's piling in over Steve Jobs's ...

Google punches back at Steve Jobs' babbling

Inquirer - Spencer Dalziel - 20 Oct, 2010
HEAD ANDROID ENGINEER Andy Rubin at "disingenuous" Google has replied to the babblings of Steve Jobs with devastatingly concise open ...

Steve Jobs is right about the 7in tablet

Telegraph.co.uk - Milo Yiannopoulos - 20 Oct, 2010
Apple has spoiled us with a 10in tablet and made us reluctant to accept a smaller one. By Milo Yiannopoulos RIM, the manufacturer of BlackBerry, ...

Apple's Jobs Jabs at Android & RIM

PC Magazine - Dan Costa - 20 Oct, 2010
Apple reported a quarterly income of more than $20 billion yesterday, which, for most CEOs, would make for a very good day. Not Steve Jobs. ...

RIM CEO Downplays Steve Jobs' 'distortion field'

Techtree.com - Nachiket Mhatre - 20 Oct, 2010
It didn't take too long for Research In Motion CEO, Jim Balsillie, to issue a counter-statement after Steve Job downplaying Google and RIM during Apple's ...

RIM hits back at Apple's 'reality distortion field'

Telegraph.co.uk - Claudine Beaumont - 20 Oct, 2010
Jim Balsillie, chief executive of Research in Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry, believes there is a market for smaller tablet computers, ...

PostLeadership

Washington Post - 20 Oct, 2010
Apple reported a banner quarter Monday, posting $20 billion in revenue for the first time. So why does Steve Jobs sound so defensive? ...

RIM Chief To Steve Jobs: 'Customers Are Getting Tired Of Being Told What To Think'

Forbes (blog) - Brian Caulfield - 20 Oct, 2010
Any man who builds a device with a big red light on it that blinks at you when you have an incoming message needs to be taken seriously. ...

Peter Foster: R&D follies continue

National Post - 20 Oct, 2010
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced record profits this week and took a few shots at competitors RIM and Google. Of RIM, he said “They must move beyond their ...

Remains of the Day: Apple and Facebook--'it's Complicated'

PC World - Dan Moren - 20 Oct, 2010
With less than 24 hours left before Steve Jobs takes the stage (arguably for the second time this week), questions are rampant: Is ...

Google, RIM attempt to outspin Jobs

Computerworld - Dan Moren - 20 Oct, 2010
Macworld - When Steve Jobs talks, people listen. Of course, that's no guarantee they'll like what he says, especially when it's their business ...

How Apple Might Spend Its Dry Powder

BusinessWeek - Darrell Etherington - 20 Oct, 2010
Apple CEO Steve Jobs won't blow a big share of that $50 billion cash hoard on Facebook. Look for a barrage of acquisitions in technologies for batteries, ...

RIM boss joins queue to kick Jobs

Register - 20 Oct, 2010
Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsille ripped into Apple CEO Steve Jobs after the Cupertinian worthy took aim at RIM's BlackBerry smartphones and upcoming ...

RIM CEO Slams Apple 'distortion Field'

PC World - Nancy Gohring - 20 Oct, 2010
Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie has accused Apple of creating a "distortion field" and spreading half-truths, ...

Apple, Blackberry spar over smartphone

Sydney Morning Herald - 20 Oct, 2010
Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) fired back at Apple's Steve Jobs on Tuesday over his claims that the iPhone is outselling the Blackberry and that 18cm ...

Android Creator Smacks Steve Jobs With The Geek Stick [Updated]

Forbes (blog) - Brian Caulfield - 20 Oct, 2010
Steve Jobs took five minutes to tear apart Google's Android smart phone strategy on Apple's earnings call Monday. ...

'We're thrashing Google, tablet rivals are dead on arrival': Jobs

Sydney Morning Herald - 20 Oct, 2010
Following Apple reporting its first-ever $US20 billion quarter, CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance on the company's earnings call to not only field ...

RIM's Balsillie Says Customers Getting `Tired' of Apple Business Approach

Bloomberg - Hugo Miller - 20 Oct, 2010
Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive officer of Research in Motion Ltd. Photographer: Jin Lee/Bloomberg Research ...

Apple falls on forecast miss

TODAYonline - 20 Oct, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs, joining an earnings conference call for the first time in two years, said the company will use ...

RIM's Balsillie Slams Jobs, Says Users Are 'Tired' of Apple

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 20 Oct, 2010
The fallout over Steve Jobs's Monday earnings call smack down continued today with Research in Motion's co-chief executive responding that Apple lives ...

RIM-Apple war gets personal as Balsillie mocks Jobs

CTV.ca - 20 Oct, 2010
Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research In Motion, RIM, maker of BlackBerry, shows the BlackBerry PlayBook as he provides an update on the latest BlackBerry ...

Google Android chief smacks Steve Jobs with Linux speak

Register - 20 Oct, 2010
Google Android chief Andy Rubin has responded to Steve Jobs's extended rant against Google's mobile OS, unloading a cagey tweet meant to defend claims of ...

FP Tech Desk: Google Android creator responds to Steve Jobs tirade via Twitter

Financial Post - 20 Oct, 2010
Andy Rubin, Google Inc. vice-president of engineering and creator of the Android operating system, is not at all happy with Apple CEO Steve Jobs right now ...

Top Android champions fire back at Steve Jobs

CNN International - Priya Ganapati - 20 Oct, 2010
Android defenders refuted some of what Apple CEO Steve Jobs said about the system on Monday. (Wired) -- Two prominent Android enthusiasts ...

Faster Forward: Steve Jobs, tech pundit (annotated version)

Washington Post - Rob Pegoraro - 20 Oct, 2010
The words "interesting" and "earnings call" rarely appear next to each other. When corporate executives take to conference calls to spin ...

TweetDeck Founder Defends Android After Jobs Rant

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 20 Oct, 2010
Steve Jobs is not making any new friends in the Android community today. The Apple chief executive criticized the Google-owned mobile OS as fragmented ...

How To Think Like Steve Jobs

Forbes - Carmine Gallo - 20 Oct, 2010
Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, recently wrote that America's core competency is its ability to attract, develop and unleash creative talent. ...

Four new reasons for Apple stock to bounce

Globe and Mail - Jason Schwarz - 20 Oct, 2010
Steve Jobs couldn't help himself, he just had to sit in on Apple Inc.'s first $20-billion (US) quarterly conference call. His presence certainly added to ...

 

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