Steve Jobs took the unusual step of talking at Apple’s Q4 earning announcements (full audio here). It is being widely characterized as a rant (blistering, impassioned attack, trash talk) across the internet. I found it to be both a well reasoned and convincing articulation of Apple’s and Job’s point of view. Not necessarily correct, not necessarily a winning strategy but well articulated and not in the rant mode. Am I just listening with gilded ears or is it really a rant?
Rant or Reason, you decide:
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Here is the segment of Steve Jobs detailing why he thinks Apple’s integration is preferable to Google’s open approach to smart phones.