The head of Android has compared iOS to a $100,000 Mercedes-Benz

During WWDC 2014, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook did not hold back when he took jabs at competing smartphone platforms, like Android. For example he referred to Android as a “toxic hell stew of vulnerabilities”. Now with Google I/O kicking off tomorrow, we have to wonder if Google has anything to say about that. Well maybe they already have. Speaking to Bloomberg, Google’s head of Android, Sundar Pichai, made some comments about Apple that felt more like a compliment rather than an insult. Perhaps he’s saving the good stuff for tomorrow, but during the interview he basically called Apple’s iOS a $100,000 Mercedes car.

Tim Cook and Craig Federighi took a few swipes at Android during WWDC’s keynote, but now that Google is readying its hype machine for Google I/O tomorrow, Sundar Pichai, the head of Android, tossed a few jabs Apple’s way in an interview with Bloomberg this morning. Pichai noted that all the data points to people adopting Android faster than any other operating system, but the dude’s so gosh darn nice, he couldn’t insult Apple without flattering them in the same breath. Addressing Tim Cook’s comments that Android is a “toxic hell stew of vulnerabilities,” Pichai said it’s difficult to compare the two, because iOS is like the $100,000 Mercedes Benz of mobile platforms, and Android is like your cheap ass Honda Civic, taking over the world one delicious dessert fueled update at a time. “You have to be careful when you make a $100,000 Mercedes car not to look at the rest of automotive industry and make comments on it. … We serve the entire breadth of the market, globally across all form factors, et cetera.”