“In March 2010, Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs and Google Inc.’s Eric Schmidt — both CEOs at the time — were spotted having coffee and a chat outside at a Palo Alto cafe,” Therese Poletti reports for MarketWatch.
“Many in the press, including yours truly, surmised the coffee klatch was a publicity stunt, designed to create the impression of a detente between the two feuding companies,” Poletti reports. “Schmidt had left (or was asked to leave) Apple’s AAPL -0.27% board after Google got more involved in smartphones in 2009. A few weeks earlier before that March meeting, Apple had sued smartphone maker HTC, alleging its Android phones infringed on 20 Apple patents, copying the look and feel of the iPhone.”
“Now, with the publication by Simon & Schuster of Walter Isaacson’s widely anticipated biography, ‘Steve Jobs,’ it’s clear that Jobs was not at the cafe to let bygones be bygones,” Poletti reports. “Jobs told his biographer he had a discussion with Schmidt to let him know he was not going to negotiate any kind of settlement for patent infringement.”
“‘I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product,’ Jobs told Isaacson. ‘I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.’ That meeting was requested by Schmidt,”Poletti reports. “But during the meeting Jobs’s main point was asking Google to stop copying the iPhone features in Android.”
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