“‘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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First off, so as to not get called some of the more sophomoric names that USMC was above me, let me start by saying I love apple products. My first had a beautiful green on green screen, and I am typing this on a iPhone.
That being said apple innovated and they did steel… these are just facts. Xerox created the mouse and what we now know as a standard in operating systems. The brilliance of Jobs was knowing what the public wanted, simplicity for the masses, and more than anything else marketing!
I owned an MP3 player years before an iPod ever existed. And while I use my iPhone for all my music (and just ordered the 4s), many other stand alone players syncing systems are alot better then iTunes. But I don’t care too much (like many others) because my phone is bad ass.
Many ideas of the iPhone are original and innovating… and many are “borrowed” tech. At some point enough companies copy a concept that works and it becomes standard. For decades the automobile accelerated and breaked by use of hand levers until change was innovated and a pedal is main stream.
I hope the “war” is by creating more bad-ass stuff for me to play with and not some lawyer bs. And I think we as a society lost a great person.
But to help my point that no one side is right… Here is Steve Jobs in the 80’s talking about stealing tech…
Apple bought the IP from Xerox.
Now that Jobs has passed, I wonder if he wrote any plans or ideas he wants to use to destroy android.