They really said that? That's just utterly delusional in a Wired on push as the future stylee.
Anyways, to get at that real world data they crave, they're gonna need tons of users, and if they ever get even one tenth of a percent of what Google has I'd be shocked.
It's moves like this that comes back and bites companies in the ass. Now they're gonna be stuck playing keep up with Android for the foreseeable future. And when you're playing catchup, you're probably not gonna have the time to be the leader.
Perhaps you guys should have taken this as a sign that Vimeo relys way too much on cookies. You can't even search the site if you don't accept cookies, no other site I've used fails that way.
Which is why you have test servers and never ever make live edits to deployed code. I find it exceedingly easy to say that this was kind of incompetent.
There is a world of difference between Apple changing their minds on a switch and Jobs saying that they've done extensive user testing on touchscreens on regular computers and that it turned out to be worthless.