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As we mentioned earlier, Steve Jobs made a cameo appearance in Apple’s quarterly earnings call yesterday, and took some time to wax lyrical on his competitors, why their strategies won’t work, why their devices suck, and why you should mutilate your hands if you bought a 7″ tablet.

As anecdotal evidence as to the difficulty of developing for Android’s many versions and handsets, Jobs brought up the chart Tweetdeck produced using data garnered from its beta showing the level of hardware diversity among Android users.

Head honcho of Android, Andy Rubin, took to Twitter earlier in defence of his baby, and now Tweetdeck CEO Iain Dodsworth has followed suit and blasted Jobs for taking his firm’s data out of context and using it as a stick to beat Android with -

“Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android? Errr nope, no we didn’t. It wasn’t.”

He hammered his point home later by pointing out that Tweetdeck only has two members of staff working on the Android version – which has gone from beta to full release in a matter of weeks.

Any comment made by the notoriously terse Apple CEO is bound to provoke discussion (so much so that we’re struggling to find many more pictures of him looking silly to go with our articles), however his habit of directly insulting competitors seems to have dropped him in a bit of hot water this time – not that we imagine he’ll care.