RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/117553283880646315
Gruber calls Jobs's remarks "Prescient," but the transcript gives me the total opposite impression: Jobs vastly underestimated Android, which ironically was the same mistake he made many years before with the IBM PC and Microsoft.
Steve Jobs on His Final Quarterly Analyst Call: ‘We Think the Open Versus Closed Argument Is Just a Smokescreen’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/11/03/jobs-open-closed
@lapcatsoftware I interpreted it to be a response to Google's recent move to make Android less open;
see also: Play Integrity, AOSP development changes, RCS, new APK restrictions, etc.
[i.e. it was entirely predictable that Google does not actually care about openness]