Apple’s Tim Cook just ripped Android to shreds

Apple CEO Tim Cook just ripped Android to shreds on stage at the company’s big developers’ conference, WWDC. Cook told attendees that 130 million Apple customers who bought one of the company’s products in the last 12 months were first-time Apple buyers. He deadpanned: “Many of these customers were switchers from Android. They had bought an Android phone, by mistake, and then sought a better experience.

And a better life. And decided to check out iPhone and iOS.” He gave this stat: “Nearly half of our customers in China in the past six months switched from Android to iPhone. This is incredible.” (In fact it’s not that incredible: Apple only began focusing on China recently and most of the Chinese market was previously on Android.) He also zinged Android for not having as many people as possible using the most recent edition of the system. About 98 per cent of Apple users are on iOS 7, according to the most recent Apple release.

Yet, only 9 per cent of Android users are on KitKat, the most recent Android system. “Some are on [Android] from four years ago — that’s like ancient history!” Cook said. His final parting shot was regarding viruses and malware —99 per cent are in Android apps, not in iOS apps. After that, he showed a slide which described Android as a “toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities.” Ouch!