Twitter talk
Beating Balsillie to the punch, Google's Andy Rubin and Iain Dodsworth, CEO of Tweetdeck, used Twitter to have their say.
According to TiPB, Rubin tweeted: "The definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make," in response to Jobs' claim that Android is not as ‘open' as it makes out and it was Apple's business approach that made smartphones accessible to the mainstream.
While writing the response in the open-source code anyone can use to create apps for Android was no doubt intended to prove an open point, many have commented that it was actually more of an own goal, proving Android to be the nerdier OS.
Dodsworth was most irked that Jobs had dragged his company into the anti-Android argument, contradicting Apple's CEO with his Tweet: "Did we say at any point it was a nightmare developing on Android? Err nope, no we didn't. It wasn't," making Jobs look a little silly.
Jobs reportedly said TweetDeck had to overcome the ‘daunting challenge' of having to cope with 100 different versions of Android on 244 different handsets, but again, Dodsworth slapped him down with another Tweet that reportedly said: "We only have 2 guys developing on Android TweetDeck so that shows how small an issue fragmentation is."
