“‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson, to be published Monday, says Jobs came up with the company’s name while he was on a diet of fruits and vegetables, and as a teenager perfected staring at people without blinking,” Rachel Metz, Barbara Ortutay and Jordan Robertson report for The Associated Press. “The Associated Press purchased a copy of the book Thursday.”
“The book also provides insight into the unraveling of Jobs’ relationship with Eric Schmidt, the former CEO 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,” Metz, Ortutay and Robertson report.
“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,'” Metz, Ortutay and Robertson report. “‘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,’ 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 Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn’t interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says,” Metz, Ortutay and Robertson report. “‘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.”
Much, much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: No wonder Eric T. Mole crawled out of his hole so fast and on to TV talk shows immediately after Jobs’ passing to attempt to rewrite history and pretend to be Jobs’ friend. He must’ve had an idea this was coming soon.
Hopefully, Tim Cook will carry on Jobs’ fight for justice with the same determination!
MacDailyNews Note: Steve Jobs via Apple’s iBookstore (U.S.16.99) here: Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Wil” for the heads up.]
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YES! Apple will be methodical and will do precise strikes to wipe out that theft of a product POS!!!
Cook said talked about Steve’s legacy… and doing everything basically as Steve would want it… future products 10 years from now… who knows…
Legal department blasting Google… well, Apple has $B > Google in straight up cash… MSFT escaped… Apple learned and has actually teamed with MSFT, ORCL et al.
Google is the new DELL…
Can’t wait for the book… its too bad that Jobs illness sped up this book… there are probably too many stories to be placed in print…
I’m 100% sure that Mr. Cook & TEAM will carry out Steve’s direction to destroy that stolen product Android. They are lucky thats all Steve wants done and nothing more…but who knows what level of spanking Google will soon be getting from Apple.
Here’s what I like the most about Steve Jobs, and Apple in general…..
“…., to right this wrong,”
Let me add two other wrongs related to technology that come to mind right now…., one very old, one recent, Microsoft Windows, Samsung Galaxy (I’m not saying Apple should right/fix them); it is frustrating to see a bunch of copiers out there.
One right? An old one but, in my opinion, the US Robotics Palm Pilot was a good thing. Another one? The Internet.
Recent rights of course iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBooks, iOS, OS X.
And I believe we all want to see more rights than wrongs in this world.
I wish the best of luck to Apple in their endeavor to carry on Steve’s fight.
Having said that, Steve’s statement doesn’t mak much sense to me. You don’t have to destroy something that’s stolen, just by pointing it out it will fall/blow on its own.
As for Mr Schmidt, he should not have been allowed in Apple’s board in the first place.
I hope Apple continues to try and destroy Android.
Hoo, boy. I’m glad Steve was never that mad at me! Got to admire the guy for wanting to protect his babies.
Schmidt’s lucky he didn’t get a thermonuclear device stuffed up his ass before he crawled back to Google. Talk about disrespecting your fiduciary duties as a board member of Apple by disclosing trade secrets to the company employing you as their CEO that ran directly counter to the interests of Apple, the rightful inventor of the modern era smart phone.
The iPhone was revolutionary all right and it took a visionary like Steve Jobs to see its potential and in the process move the frontiers of mobile computing forwards into the realms dreamed of by science fiction writers and Star Trek producers. The iPhone begat the iPad which together will change the landscape of personal computing forever. It’s the dawn of the era of true personal computing where the computing power of the device stays with you always rather than being chained to a desktop or bulky laptop.
But Eric having seen the future decided to steal it from its progenitor rather than cooperate with him to extend the uses of the computing device into maps, search and YouTube. Eric your day of comeuppance will come soon and it’ll take the form of myriad Chinese companies ripping off your IP and installing bastard versions of Android that will steer search revenues to Baidu.
FSCK YOU MOLE!!!
amen
If it is indeed the case that Schmidt took product information gleaned from his time spent sitting on Apple’s board back to Google, that would be truly reprehensible behavior, not to mention a legally actionable case of both breach of fiduciary duty and theft of trade secrets. Just breathtaking gall if he in fact did this…
This is why the Chinese will back Apple. Culturally, Chinese revere words spoken from the dead or dying. Seriously what benefit does Jobs have in lying, he speaks the truth.
Anyway, what do I know.
Steve probably should have licensed the tech. At least then the price of android wouldn’t likely have come free. It would also mean Google admitting to using Apple IP.
I respect the principle of the issue but don’t necessarily think the decision was wise or to the benefit of Apple. We shall see. We shall see.
Apple should have expanded the US market to other carriers much sooner, that exclusive deal with AT&T cost them since other carriers had to turn to lesser alternatives in order to compete.
This gets said quite often, but people forget; Apple has been unable, for years, to keep up with the demand, even with only one carrier in the US. They had sold every single iPhone they made. Opening it up to more carriers before the manufacturing was capable of meeting the new demand levels would have been a disaster, with three-month waits for orders and plenty of livid customers. Apple has already gone through this scenario in the early 90’s (insufficient supply to meet the demand). They learned their lessons: 1. Hired Tim Cook, and 2. Controlled the market demand and supply.
As Google has already shown with their actions previously (refusing to get a license from Oracle/Sun and knowingly using their code anyway) they likely would have just continued as planned and just put it out there anyway.
That’s just how arrogant they are at Google.
Can’t wait to get the book.
Per ordered many many months ago, a first for me to pre order a book…
As I sit here with my iPhone watching a movie on my iMac rented on iTunes with my family each with an iOS device texting each other using iMessage across the length of the room, Steve Jobs is never out of my thoughts and all I wish for him back on this earth is to see Eric the mole fail in his “grand theft” of iOS. I want to see this man fail so bad. Let’s hope Tim Cook has his orders.
Through the medium of Walter Isaacson’s words, Steve Jobs righting history from beyond the veil..
The truth will out!
(Classic brilliance.)
Anyone have an iPhone 4s and asked Siri…
“Siri, what do you think of Android?”
What is Siri’s reply?
There are probably a few possible replies, but this is supposedly one of them
I can’t wait to read this book.
I have it pre-ordered from Barnes and Nobel for $17.99.
I figured for just one more dollar, it made sense to get the hardback, rather than the digital version.
GOOD.
MDN friends, THIS is why Apple is saving up billions in cash. If wants to go to war, one needs a warchest to fund it. People asking for dividends should STFU!
And now Tim has $82 Billions…
if going to war means spending billions to make better products then awesome i cant wait to see the new weapons.
If its billions going to lawyers and patents then i hope they experience a failure of epic proportions because nobody is going to win with that route.
So, apparently I was wrong. I always felt the rivalry was more hype and business than personal. Obviously, it was personal to Jobs. I’m a little surprised, honestly. Of course, the interviews of Jobs for the book were intimate, likely bringing out extremes that even the notoriously emotional and reactionary man probably did not fully and explicitly express to his Google cohorts. Nonetheless, I read the situation as impersonal when it was quite the opposite to Jobs.
I remember the original article about that meeting, with the photo, shot by passers-by.
Did Jobs have no shrink to talk to?
😉
Or a priest?
The best part of that photo is the body language. If Mole had a tail (which I’m not convinced he doesn’t), it would have been tucked between his legs.
When the Apple/Google relationship was first developing (constructively), I saw it as a powerful matchup of complementary strengths: Apple brings the smart user interface, Google brings the cloud. But because Google decided to build its own user interface, Apple began to build its own cloud (or so it seems).
I do not think iCloud is a response to google really. It is a response to mobileMe, which Steve was NEVER happy with. It is also the natural evolution of the iOS ecosystem.
ITunes match is brilliant, suprised it isn’t getting any press. Once word of it spreads, watch out.
Don’t get me wrong, I think iTunes match will be great, but please explain the brilliance….
iTunes match is Apple’s offering a great opportunity to all the illegitimate downloads of mp3s etc. You sign up for a flat annual subscription rate of $25; you match ALL your songs (128 kbps or crappier rips) as they get matched on the cloud. You then download them later, as now legitimate owners, in their crisp AAC 256 DRM free format for life. If you have 3 TB of music files, this is a blessing.
Finally, it’s a win for the music industry as they are getting a cut of the $25, money they never could have (through lengthy legal or technical actions), and it keeps everyone happier. That’s the Apple magic, one of the least talked about aspect, cutting deals that matters.
So, yeah, brilliant maybe an understatement here. This is Apple’s way of saluting the pirates. Apple, the true champion of “open” that counts, etc.
Don’t forget Apple made statements that they where releasing iCloud and then on week later Google makes a statement that they are going to release a cloud based product.
As always, Apple Said it first and others tried to trump them…
Google has a very distinctive pattern, follow Apple like a shadow and release the same thing.
Shows who is the real innovators here and it is not a Google.
I never could figure out why Schmidt was on the board of directors in the first place. When Google introduce there phone I told anyone that would listen that Jobs made a big mistake by having Schmidt there. He is truly a mole. To bad, both companies could have been much better off if Schmidt had integrity.
(recently discovered crumpled note at Cupertino):
…[illegible, illegible]…iNuke device successfully planted in E.S. lower GI. Methane-powered device set with dual timer and proximity locator, to be activated at GHQ on or after Dec 25, 2011… [illegible], [doodle of mushroom cloud in shape of big G]
…provided by WikiLeaks
It is a good thing Jobs is gone
Android is here to stay.
Jobs is not.
Apple needs to get over worrying about Android and move on.
Android Your Man, is built off the betrayal of a sick and dying man. You must be so proud.
Your a idot, and android is going to pay, first with oracle and next with Apple.
Don’t think for a moment Apple is just waiting around for no reason,
Android will go down, it will be to expensive to use after all the lawsuits.
You’re* an* Idiot*
Guess you’re the real idiot.
With an attitude like yours, it’s quite evident that you have few friends and even fewer who will show up at your funeral, let alone be compelled to cry.
Jealousy’s a motherfucker and karma’s a bitch.
So he doesn’t care for Steve, that means he has no friends? You are just an angry fanboy, princess.
There’s a difference between not caring for someone and taking pleasure from someone’s death.
I have been saying DEATH to ANDROID quite sometime.
SIRI is going to help DIFFERENTIATE the PHONES forever.
STEVES LAST LAUGH.
ANDROID is only eye candy – people don’t need BIGGER screen when a smaller screen can understand your voice.
bunch of Apple fanboys here obviously. Boo hoo, Apple doesn’t get to squeeze all the monies from everyone foolish enough to pay through the nose for an overpriced POS. Apple needs to get over itself, they’re not curing cancer. They’re not even donating money to cure cancer.
Oh yea, Tim will carry on this fight. I’ve got a feeling that Steve’s passing (I have a hard time saying death), will only serve to galvanize Apple’s stance to see through the determination of Steve Job’s on this issue. It will make it’s way all the way to the Supreme Court, I’m quite sure.
It must be done so I will start.
I put out a call for all the old Mac faithful to stop using all the Google stuff!
Enough is enough!
“Good artist copy, Great artist steal”
“we have always been shameless about copying”
BUT GOD FORBID SOMEONE “COPIES” OR “STEALS” AN IDEA FROM APPLE!
You don’t see Samsung trying to destroy LG’s or Sony’s TV businesses, or Ford trying to destroy GM’s automotive business, its called competition and Apple just needs to suck it up and get used to it. It’s not like Apple hasn’t stolen anything to make their precious iPhone. Grid of icons, having a grid of options for mute, conference call, etc on the call screen all came from palm. Your little notification center is a combination of Android notifications and WP7 toast notifications. Camera from lockscreen, WP7 had it and HTC android phones had it.
Apple will copy and steal whatever they want but they get all butt hurt when they are on the other end. So don’t sit on your high horse calling the kettle black when the iPhone and iOS uses just as much borrowed ideas that Android uses.
You, and every other asshole that thinks your rationale makes any sense, CLEARLY don’t understand the difference between a different implementation of a simple feature like a grid and stealing the fundamental, underlying IP which powers an entire concept. I won’t even say “nice try” because it was pathetic.
So then please explain to me what about Android steals from iOS, if Android was in development before the iPhone was announced then the underlying IP couldn’t possibly have been taken from Apple, what changed was the implementation of the OS on a Blackberry like device to a touch screen device, assuming there weren’t already touch screen prototypes before the iPhone was released. And if Android was completely copied from the iPhone then why was all but one complaint thrown out in the lawsuit against the galaxy line up in the Netherlands, and the only one that stuck was the “implementation of a simple feature” of swiping between photos in a freaking gallery app, riddle me that fcuk nuckles.
My bad. I’m wrong. You are much smarter than Steve Jobs, Apple’s legal team and the courts that have imposed bans on the sale of various products in this suit. Apple is routinely in the habit of litigating rather than innovating. Any fool could look back on history and see that.
And, it’s not like Andy Rubin worked at Apple at a time when fundamental underpinnings of iOS were being developed.
Let’s just start with this flashback to what Android looked like,
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/a-visual-tour-of-androids-ui/
and the likely direction it was headed back in 2007, contrasted to now. iPhone comes out, everybody scrambles to imitate… hardware makers, and Google, to make something that to many oridinary people could easily be mistaken for an actual iPhone. The touchscreen GUI, complete with gestures overall utilization, was something Apple delivered as a completely different product than anything that existed in the cellphone space. Period. To think that Google (with Schmidt hovering on Apple’s board during this iPhone development time) would have come up with such a similar concept on their own, with the asian phone makers making iPhone lookalikes on their own, simply merging all their collective creativity to come up with something that… basically looks and operates like and…. iPhone… is ludicrous at best. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, there was nothing like it even on the horizon. Even the rumors about what the iPhone was going to be like didn’t get it right, there were so many different imaginary scenarios. So, when Steve introduced it, he also said that Apple had patented the hell out of it. I believe he meant what he said. Now it’s just up to the assinine legal system to unravel, but I think Steve knew he had been ripped off, and I do believe him.
@TROLL2821
So, care to explain Apple’s success in court?
And if Apple steals the ideas of Android vendors as much as Android vendors steal the ideas of Apple, then how come the attempted counter-suits by the Android vendors have fizzled out?
Man, I envy you. I could never be as full of shit as you are even if I tried. You got skills.
Amazing! China is a country who everyone claims has no respect for copyright n here right in US of A, u hv so many defending a mole blatantly flaunting a stolen idea!
Realfatfreddy… good point. I like what you’re saying, cep I’m hvn tbl rdng parts of your post. 😉
It is interesting how so many Americans will rally to support a Korean or Taiwanese or Chinese company competing by imitation with a genuine American company (yes, I know they do subcontract their manufacturing overseas… so don’t belabor the obvious, please,) and how another “American” company, also imitating, can actually provide these Asian outfits the means (OS) to compete with the aforementioned successful American company without even charging them for it. Who does this really benefit? It benefits the American company (google) by letting them harvest all manners of consumer data, and the foreign hardware makers because they can’t write their own software and OS’s to save their lives. Now when the original, the real deal, the one truly innovative and creative American company fights to protect it’s success and the fruits of its research and development, all these lame ass US consumers who want everything cheap actually side with the copycats against the home grown real deal. No wonder our economy is going down the tubes. Why buy Snap-On tools, when Sears will now sell phony Craftsmen tools, now made in China. Most people won’t know the difference, but it’s there. But if Americans settle for “good enough” long enough, then we will eventually have to accept whatever the makers of cheap, imitation goods choose to offer us, because the quality folks will just pack it in. At least Apple will take on the fight, and make a stand for American design and engineering and software/human interfacing. The easy thing to do would be to fold, but it isn’t going to happen. It will be a battle worth watching…