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Andy Rubin Hits Back At Apple, Shoots Himself In The Foot

Toby Leftly
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Andy Rubin took issue with Steve Jobs' analysis of the openness of Google at Apple's earnings release, and tweeted his opinion on the matter....

Andy Rubin took issue with Steve Jobs' analysis of the openness of Google at Apple's earnings release, and tweeted his opinion on the matter. Unfortunately, the tweet was either massively ironic, or completely misses the point of what Jobs was attempting to say. The tweet Rubin sent was a terminal command intended to demonstrate the full extent to which Android is open:

the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make”

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Toby is a Mac nerd, a hardware nerd and a web nerd, rolled into one.

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