{"id":65,"date":"2010-10-19T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2020-08-07T03:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:26:49","slug":"openlol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/2010\/10\/19\/openlol\/","title":{"rendered":"The Definition of \u201cEcho Chamber\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google\u2019s Android VP Andy Rubin was apparently so hurt by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/154980\/2010\/10\/jobs_transcript.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Jobs\u2019 earnings call comments<\/a>\u00a0about Android that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Arubin\/status\/27808662429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he created a Twitter account<\/a>. The result was classic: A socially awkward outburst about open source software\u2026 on a closed source social network.\u00a0No news on when we\u2019ll be able to clone AdWords from GitHub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s particularly awkward because it\u2019s obtuse\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0evasive. Jobs wasn\u2019t debating definitions; he said Google\u2019s use of the word was a smokescreen. So Rubin responds with a smokescreen. Nothing in his tweet, or in his recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2010\/10\/08\/rubin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defense of the carriers<\/a>\u00a0(!!!), explains why \u201copen\u201d automatically means \u201cbetter.\u201d Google is so drunk on its keyword that it has lost the ability to explain it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In essence, Apple turned the propaganda tables and put Google executives on their heels within ten hours. Steve Jobs doesn\u2019t write code. Andy Rubin shouldn\u2019t do PR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Permission is hereby granted, with attribution, to create a \u201cDotC\u201d Warcraft III mod.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Android VP Andy Rubin was apparently so hurt by\u00a0Steve Jobs\u2019 earnings call comments\u00a0about Android that\u00a0he created a Twitter account. The result was classic: A socially awkward outburst about open source software\u2026 on a closed source social network.\u00a0No news on when we\u2019ll be able to clone AdWords from GitHub. It\u2019s particularly awkward because it\u2019s obtuse\u00a0and\u00a0evasive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}