Every since Apple and Google started to comment aggressively about each others business and products, each earnings call or product launch is filled with some punches going around. So here is what Tim Cook (Apple COO) had to say about the iPad competitors at the Q1 earnings call which saw record profits/revenues for Apple.
Apple sold more than 7.3 million iPads last quarter and that’s a huge margin over the 1 million Galaxy Tabs sold by Samsung. Android sure has failed to dent the tablets market.
Replying to a question on iPad competitors, Tim was prompt to point out that the Windows alternatives are crucial, bulky and work with a stylus or keyboard which does little to please the customers. But a bulk of his comments then moved to Android, starting with the fact that Google itself says that the OS is not ready for tablets. Pointing out the 7? tablets as an oversized smartphone, this is far from the ‘real tablet experience’. “If you do a side-by-side with an iPad, you’ll pick an iPad.”
Tim also took shots at Honeycomb, calling it the ‘next generation, which we saw at CES’. He pointed out that Honeycomb isn’t shipping yet, nor are there any dates announced. He actually called it ‘vapor’, also citing lack of performance specs. He ended his iPad competition reply with ‘very confident entering into a fight with anyone’.
We have pointed out in the past that Honeycomb will ship only by Q2 of 2011 and iPad 2 would be waiting on the doors. Apple sure knows this!
Wondering if Google is already preparing a reply?
