Posted on 10/21/2011 7:07:59 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
21 October 2011 Last updated at 09:40 GMT
Steve Jobs vowed to 'destroy' Android
Steve Jobs said he wanted to destroy Android and would spend all of Apple's money and his dying breath if that is what it took to do so.
The full extent of his animosity towards Google's mobile operating system is revealed in a forthcoming authorised biography.
Mr Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android's similarity to iOS as "grand theft".
Apple is suing several smartphone makers which use the Android software.
According to extracts of Mr Isaacson's book, obtained by the Associated Press, Mr Jobs said: "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
He is also quoted as saying: "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
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You can have my DroidX when you take it from my cold, dead fingers!
The Wright brothers tried to patent flying. Imagine if one of the automakers had successfully patented using an internal combustion engine to power a vehicle, or patented the use of inflated tires.
Bring your iPhones to me so that my new Droid Bionic can crush them. (OK, if I was going to crush iPhones, I’d use an HTC Thunderbolt. Those suckers are HEAVY.)
Competition is a good thing. I have no beef with Apple or their products, in fact I freely admit, as an Android fan, that the iPhone was the trailblazer that led the way for the modern smartphone. But I like the fact that there’s Android and Blackberry and Windows Phone (snicker) out there keeping Apple honest and innovating. Choice is good.
}:-)4
—Mr Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android’s similarity to iOS as “grand theft”. —
Airbus airplanes are similar to Boeing airplanes. Most passengers don’t know the difference. Is there grand theft involved?
—Mr Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android’s similarity to iOS as “grand theft”. —
Heck, I go through a lot of rental cars. Except when I rented a Hummer H3, they all pretty much look the same inside.
Would that be anything like swiping the Mac GUI from PARC Meester Jobs???
Me too, love my droid. Not so much, google.
“Android still lives”
This would be the same Steve Jobs who said something to the effect of "We [Apple] have never been ashamed to steal a great idea" or something along those lines? Didn't Jobs get the idea for the mouse from some government or military computer system he saw, among other things?
At least now his liberalism begins to make sense - he was a hyprocrite, like all liberals.
Imagine if cave painters had patented painting pictures on substrates. Jobs had his pluses and minuses but if he had gotten his way we would’ve all been forced to pay Apple a premium and progress would have been enslaved to whatever pace Apple had seen fit. There would not have been PC diversification or smart phone diversification all which are good for consumers and not really bad for companies like Apple either but the problem is companies think they are entitled not to have competition and that is just as dangerous a concept as those worthless fools protesting on Wallstreet. The sense of entitlement that I am so special that I should not have to prove myself in the competition of life is one that leads to stagnations and dependency. I don’t want to be dependent on government or enslaved to big businesses who shut out the competition with generally broad patents and by leveraging political connections to get laws passed that give them an unfair advantage over competitors and consumers.
Interesting comment from one of the ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’.
Everybody would be much happier with a Windows Phone than either the iPhone or the Andriod anyway
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/
Jobs took the whole icon interface idea from Xerox.
To borrow (and mangle) a phrase from Whoopi Goldberg, Jobs evidently didn't consider that to be "theft theft"...
Apple offered stock options to Xerox in return for getting access to the PARC research.
Android was a grand betrayal on Google´s part - they had a seat on Apple´s board of directors, and appearently used that in order to swipe the iPhone concept in order to remake what was originally supposed to be a BlackBerry ripoff into an iPhone ripoff. I don´t blame Jobs for being pissed at Google for that.
Same here. Love it. I'm trying to talk Mr. Inspectorette into upgrading to a Droid from his old Motorola flip phone - LOL.
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