Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android

hype7 writes "It's clear Steve Jobs didn't pull any punches from the interviews for his forthcoming biography. In the latest release from the book, hosted over at AP, 'Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the 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'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." ... In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, 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 $5 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." The meeting, Isaacson wrote, resolved nothing.'"

Comments

Re:and what about xerox's stuff?

[Anonymous Coward]

If by "stole" you mean "bought and used with permission" then yes, you are correct.

Re:Odd, given that the Mac "borrowed" so much

[julesh]

Apple did not steal from Xerox. Apple was already developing a GUI back in the late '70s.

The first GUI computer, the Xerox Alto, was designed in 1973, 2 whole years before Jobs & Wozniak started developing the Apple I, and 5 years before work started on the Lisa, Apple's first GUI computer.

Re:The lawsuits are ridiculous but...

[mjwx]

REMEMBER what the Iphone looked like pre-LG Prada. So, do you want to admit that:
1. Ideas develop simultaneously.
or
2. Apple stole the LG Prada designs.

Either way, it proves your point is full of crap.

I'm sorry that you're upset that Android it better, but please you're just embarrassing yourself here.

Re:and what about xerox's stuff?

[Lumpy]

From those of us that have used touchscreens for 20 years. Yes tapping an icon is the same as clickong on an icon. It's not revolutionary in any way.

I had the first Tablet PC, a Dauphin DTR-1 it ran windows 3.11 and acted just like a iPhone except for swipes and gestures.
Honestly, you think tapping an icon is revolutionary?

Re:and what about xerox's stuff?

[Mr. Slippery]

Apple paid Xerox (in stocks) for the GUI and the mouse. Apple did not steal them - Xerox gave (sold) them away willingly.

Where does this ahistorical gibberish come from? Xerox sued Apple in 1989, claiming that that Apple ''intentionally and purposefully concealed'' the derivation of the Lisa and Macintosh software from Xerox software and that Apple's copyrights were invalid. (Xerox's suit was barred for technical reasons of standing.)