“In response to a question on criticism by the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, that Android phones ripped off its flagship iPhone, Schmidt said, ‘the Android effort started before the iPhone effort,'” Hyunjoo Jin and Joonhee Yu report for Reuters. “‘I’ve decided not to comment on what’s been written on a book after his death. Steve is a fantastic human being and someone who I miss very dearly. As a general comment, I think most people would agree that Google is a great innovator and I would also point out that the Android effort started before the iPhone effort,’ Schmidt said.”
Jin and Yu report, “In his authorized biography released last month, Jobs said, ‘I will spend my last dying breath if I need to…to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go to thermonuclear war on this.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Disingenuous mole. See what Android looked like several months after Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone, but before Google could fully rev up their photocopiers here.