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Google’s Andy Rubin on Apple: “Everybody Is Embracing the iPhone”

December 6, 2010 at 7:12 pm PT

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Google and Apple may be fierce rivals in the mobile space, and they may have different visions of the meaning of “open,” but there’s a mutual respect between the two companies that was in evidence tonight at D: Dive Into Mobile. Asked for his views on Apple in an interview with co-hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Andy Rubin, Google’s Android guru, had good things to say about the iPhone and the company that created it.

“I think everybody is embracing the iPhone,” he said. “I think that Apple makes good consumer products and focuses on a robust consumer experience and consistency across applications. More recently, I see them getting involved in the other end of the mobile spectrum, which is services–the App Store, iTunes, etc. I think that when you move into the services business, it creates a lot of new opportunities. If the operating system is the razor, then services are the blades.”

Does Apple have the DNA to make it in the services business?

Said Rubin, “My assumption is Apple is a company that learns from its mistakes.”

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  • Tim

    obviously Rubin is alot more classy than that Android trash-talking douchebag Steve Jobs. iPhone is still crap

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=564623708 Jonathan J Kim

    one classy dude. he will get a job at Apple for sure.

  • Anonymous

    You are obviously not an expert on classy.

    Steve Jobs did not trash talk Android. He just said it like it is. In the tech industry that sounds like crazy talk because there is a tradition of pretending that broken products actually work so that tech companies can keep fleecing the rubes. Apple makes products that actually work, so there is no incentive for them to play that game.

  • http://theculturewhore.com The CW

    i guess i’m wondering what mistakes apple has made in services business arena? all i can think of is ping.

  • Anonymous

    Well duh, nothing can compete with a jail broken iPhone!

    http://www.privacy-resources.edu.tc

  • Anonymous

    It’s mistake has been ignoring it. The fact that Apple’s enterprise market share is negligible implies a lot of mistakes on their part.

  • http://theculturewhore.com The CW

    Apple has always been a consumer electronics company with very ambitions in the enterprise market. On the other hand, Microsoft has been focused on the enterprise first and the consumer market only distantly second. Seems this is a choice that is working very well based on market cap… as opposed to a mistake.

    try again.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BCXEAKKTAN7AIJ3M3KYFGDVVYY Rick

    How about the iPhone 4 antenna? How quickly the Apple fanboys forget.

  • http://theculturewhore.com The CW

    yes, because the press reporting a non-existent issue makes it an issue, and… because an antenna is a services business.

    RTFC

  • Anonymous

    Choice said they couldn’t recommend the iPhone 4 due to its antenna issue. Apple then decided to hand out millions of bumper case to rectify the blatantly faulty antenna design. Apple then fired and hired a bunch of antenna engineers. Jobs even went so far as to bad-mouth RIM and Nokia for ‘less than perfect antennas’. Apple even recalibrated their signal meter software to try and pull some wool over people’s eyes.

    But hey, for those living inside Apple’s reality distortion field this is of course just down to ‘bad press’.

    BTW, feel free to think for yourself occasionally…

  • Anonymous

    And yet M$ are going to sell 300 MILLION copies of Win 7 this year. Mostly to consumers. Numbers Apple can only dream of… :-)

    Apple have tried (X-Serve – the joke that it was…) to get into eneterprise, but always managed to screw it up.

    Now YOU must try again…

  • Tim

    Steve Jobs overhypes his crappy trinkets, fools his cult followers all the time

  • Tim

    as for the enterprise, Windows CE runs those tablets used by UPS drivers to deliver those iPads

  • Anonymous

    Actually, Apple has an enterprise division and markets aggressively to large businesses. That’s why they’ve made some *slight* inroads of late.

    Why not just accept — as everyone else on earth has, including Apple — that they’ve screwed up when it comes to the enterprise cash cow. Then you can apologize for trolling and spreading fanboi ignorance.

    Also, congratulations on learning something today!

  • http://twitter.com/whcir Rich Wells

    I wouldn’t consider Jobs statements on Android trash talking. I’d consider them to be a real critique from someone who’s proud of Apple’s products. As far as Rubin being classy, you must remember that Google makes money from ads and search from Apple’s devices, but Apple makes no money from Google.