Tim Cook, Apple COO and Steve Jobs’s stand in, has come out in attack of iPad competitors, and unsurprisingly, in favour of the iPad. Cook said that Android Honeycomb tablets were “vapour” for the moment, and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple CFO also confirmed that Apple are working on the iPad 2.
Cook didn’t hold back, slamming both Windows based tablets and Android tablets. Cook said: “Tablets using a Windows based operating system are typically big, heavy and expensive. They have weak battery life and require a stylus. Customers are frankly not interested.
“Then you have the Android tablet. The variety that are out today, the operating system wasn’t really designed for a tablet. You wind up having a tablet that is less than a real tablet experience, a scaled up smartphone, which is a bizarre product in our view. Those are not tablets we are concerned about.”
That wasn’t all either. Cook also had a dig at Android Honeycomb, talking about the next generation of Android tablets: “Generally they lack performance specs, and prices, and so today they’re vapour. We’ll assess them as they’re coming out, however we’re not sitting still. We’re confident entering into a fight with anyone.”
Peter Oppenheimer, Apple CFO, also said: “The iPad team are building the best iPad for the future,” although refused to say anything more about the next iteration of the iPad.
This is fighting talk from Cook, but once that vapour materialises into solid form, will Android Honeycomb be posing a very real threat to Apple? Shout out in the comments!
