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To: sylvester80 who wrote (11418)	10/21/2011 8:00:59 AM
From: rnsmth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

It is odd that you would provide evidence that destroys your case that Android is hurting Apple. And now what do we see from Android's chief, Mr. Rubin. He sounds a lot like the RIMM chiefs did when the iPhone first came out, saying that major new advances were not important. He claims that people do not want their pocket computers (aka smartphones) to be intelligent assistants. He claims that people want to mostly talk on their phones. Was there really a need for you to join the ranks of people who didn’t take the iPhone seriously? Because your comments at AsiaD make it sound like you are about to side with folks like RIM’s CEO and Steve Ballmer by saying silly things about what people do and don’t want. “I don’t believe that your phone should be an assistant. … Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.” … “To some degree it is natural for you to talk to your phone,” Rubin said, but historically that has meant talking to another person. As for talking to your phone without actually trying to connect to another person, Rubin says he’s not so sure. Really Andy? You’re not sure? Perhaps you need to sit down and watch a little-known show I like called Star Trek. That might give you some clue as to how people want to be able to speak to their computers, phones, and other mobile devices. Andy is wrong and Android will pay for his error. Probably the karma coming back from all that IP theft that Google has been doing :-)