Apple COO: Android Honeycomb Is Vapor Ware

It ain’t bragging if it’s true, is it? Apple COO Tim Cook on the forthcoming Android Honeycomb devices: “There’s nothing shipping yet, so I don’t know. Generally they lack performance specs, price and timing. Today, they’re vapor. We have a huge first mover advantage. We have an incredible user experience from iTunes to the App Store and enormous number of apps and a huge ecosystem, so we’re very, very confident in entering in a fight with anyone. If the iPad or tablets do cannibalize the PC market, keep in mind we have low share in the PC market and the other guys will lose a lot more.” He said the iPad may cannibalize sales of the Macbook Air but also expects the iPad to have a halo effect of attracting new users to the Apple brand, including the Mac.

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