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 ...
Xerox PARC invented the mac/windows/gui style user interface, not Jobs. Jobs lifted it from them. Gates lifted it from Jobs and PARC after it showed promise.
You cannot copyright ideas like this and and most of the concepts were prior art so (assuming the patent office was competent, which it isn’t) no coverage there.
My Android is still working fine... Jobs... not so much.
LLS
Nope.
Never claimed it was better/faster/more capable.
Never used an iPhone - wouldn't know - but I know this:
I like my DroidX.
Cleared my cache fairly often, but I do have lots of apps running.
Guess that’s one item on his bucket list he didn’t quite get to. :-)
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That’s some crazyass sheeet. The cancer was warping his mind. Also loony toon hyper-competitiveness for greater glory....this just might give you cancer
Apple is the darling of CNBC and Wall Street. All this adulation went to his (Steve Jobs) head
No, because Apple PAID Xerox $7,000,000 for the visits to just look AND USE what the learned in their two eight hour visits at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. Apple took NO CODE, NO SOFTWARE, and the look and operation of Apple Finder is completely different than Xerox smallTalk. A CEO of Xerox several years after the fact, who was not involved, attempted to sue Apple for the "infringement, but the case was tossed out when Apple presented the signed agreement. QED, no "theft" or "swiping" took place.
You've been told this before. Yet you repeat the lie. Why?
Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series 1995–2001) - IMDb
Those last two “data pads” are from the above series so are not earlier than 1995
Apple licensed the mouse from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), whose Dr. Douglas Englelbart is the inventor, paying for an unlimited license. Apple did not steal it. They then patented their one button design among others.
Not stock options. Apple gave Xerox one million shares of pre-IPO Apple common stock worth $7 per share. They gave them an interest in the company! Xerox became an owner of Apple! They sold those shares after the IPO for about $16 million.
Not stock options. Apple gave Xerox one million shares of pre-IPO Apple common stock worth $7 per share. They gave them an interest in the company! Xerox became an owner of Apple! They sold those shares after the IPO for about $16 million.
And now you are outright telling an outrageous lie!
When my BB died after 7 years I bought a Droid. I can't wait to dump it and get another BB. In terms of email delivery BB is far superior, especially in areas where signals are spotty, emails still get through eventually, receive and send.
Both Apple and Xerox were working on GUIs simultaneously. Apple had hired an ex-professor from California State University San Diego who had done pioneering work in windowing and mouse driven GUIs. He had given several lectures at PARC before going to work at Apple that had sparked their interest in GUIs and he was now the head of Apple's GUI and Mac project. Perhaps you've heard of him? His name is Jef Raskin. HE was later miffed that Jobs took over his Mac project... But later came to realize the genius that Jobs brought to the project through simplification. It was Jef Raskin who is the real father of the GUI at both Apple and PARC... and HE suggested that Jobs visit PARC to see what they were doing and put Jobs in contact with Xerox management to negotiate a deal to visit AND USE WHAT THEY SAW on the visits and it was Jobs and Raskin who went on the first eight hour visit. They lifted NOTHING! In fact, Raskin made suggestions to the PARC engineers on their visit for improvements on their work! In many ways it was a two way street.
On the other hand, Gates did sign an NDA, and violated it in many ways... But the Sugar-water salesman who was CEO of Apple had little tech understanding an wrote a very poor contract with Microsoft and the the judge in the case was a Luddite with even less understanding of software copyrights. . . who ruled that a limited license for Windows 1, was an unlimited license for all subsequent versions of Windows dispite explicit limiting language. He said "Windows is Windows!" ignoring the complete re-write and change that took place from Windows 1 to Windows95. He found only a few similar icons such as the Trashcan were protected. Idiot.
Incidentally, Microsoft did lose a MAJOR patent and software copyright infringement case to Apple in 1997... It cost the more than $150,000,000! It had the potential of costing them billions, but Steve Jobs found a way to save face for them so that both companies won.
You are completely and indefensibly wrong on this subject. Apple licensed the tech from Xerox. You are spreading Microsoft FUD that is older than the world wide web itself.
And now he’s dead! That’ll learn ‘im!
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