Jobs Says Apple activates More Devices in one day... Google Says No, We Are!

2 September, 2010 Apple

Apple vs. Google

Apple. for all their PR wizardry, are not known for always sticking entirely to whats true. More correctly they are known for bending facts a little to fit their view of events. The latest such incident came during Apples media event just the other day when Steve Jobs announced that Apple was activating 230,000 devices a day. The reason this is important is because Google had recently announced they were activating 200,000 devices a day.

However, Steve Jobs was not content with saying that Google were behind Apple in activations, no he put a swift boot in by saying he did not believe Google numbers in the first place.

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We think ome of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers ... we think we are ahead of everyone"

Google was quick to issue a response to attempt to nullify Apples reality distortion field. A Google spokesman clarified the situation "
The Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market since we only include devices that have Google services". Steve Jobs is wrong ?!

It was not just Googles mobile division that came in for a poke from Jobs, he had a jab at Google TV too. He lauded Apple TV's ability to bring customers 'Hollywood blockbusters' and popular TV shows, whilst saying they didn't want 'amateur hour'. That's a not so subtle reference to Google TV's ability to grab videos from just about anywhere, including amateur sites. Somewhat hypocritically Jobs was singing the praies of Apple TV being able to play YouTube movies and HD videos from YouTube. Isn't YouTube the king of all amteur video sites?

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