Topic: 'I'm going to destroy Android': Jobs declared 'thermonuclear war' on Google, Steve Jobs biography.
Handel !khEOdtKF56 started this discussion 15 years ago#13,446
> The book provides insight into the unravelling of Jobs's relationship with Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google and an Apple board member from 2006 to 2009. Schmidt had quit Apple's board as Google and Apple went head-to-head in smartphones, Apple with its iPhone and Google with its Android software.
> Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the touch and other popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an expletive-laced rant that Google's actions amounted to "grand theft".
> "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $US40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
> Jobs used an expletive to describe Android and Google Docs, Google's internet-based word processing program. In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a cafe in Palo Alto, California, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says.
> "I don't want your money. If you offer me $US5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want."
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later[^][v]#241,103
> "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Xerox's $US40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Burns said. "I'm going to destroy the Apple GUI, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
dreamworks !AUIkTW/L46 joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 17 seconds later, 3 minutes after the original post[^][v]#241,104
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dreamworks !AUIkTW/L46 double-posted this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 6 minutes after the original post[^][v]#241,108
also implying software creating isn't entirely about stealing everyone else's features and slightly improving them
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 31 seconds later, 6 minutes after the original post[^][v]#241,109
fucking psychotic illegal clones
Handel !khEOdtKF56 (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 6 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^][v]#241,113