Jobs' Jab Suggests Apple Fears Android Discussion

[Jamison Cush]

It's great to see Steve Jobs on stage unveiling an Apple product. His passion and enthusiasm make him extremely persuasive, and it's easy to see why consumers often buy into the hype of what he often calls Apple's "magical" offerings.

That's why Jobs' jabs at Android, or "our competitors" as he said, during the iPad 2 unveiling were so striking. To reiterate, Jobs repeated a Samsung misquote suggesting the Galaxy Tab sales were "quite small." In reality, the quote expressed Tab sales were "quite smooth," and was simply misheard. News outlets reporting the "quite small" comment quickly corrected the mistake.

Jobs took also a shot at the current lack of Android tablet apps, saying there are less than 100, which is actually true. At launch, the Xoom had only 16 tablet-specific apps. The iPad has 60,000. However, the Xoom and other Android tablets can run any Android app, just as the iPad can run any App Store app, though with limits as most were designed for smaller smartphones.

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Jobs belittling the competition by misleading, never! In other news the sky remains blue.