“Open Systems Don’t Always Win”

The real question, says Jobs, is: “What is best for the customer—integrated versus fragmented? We think this is a huge strength of our system versus Google’s. When selling to people who want their devices to just work, we think integrated wins every time. We are committed to the integrated approach. We are confident it will triumph over Google’s fragmented approach.”

Jobs sees Android as the iPhone’s biggest, and only real competitor. At the beginning of the call, he dismissed RIM (maker of the Blackberry phones) out of hand: “We’ve now past RIM, and I don’t see them catching up to us in the near future.”

via techcrunch

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