“Steve Jobs never hid his hatred for Google’s Android platform. Shortly before his death, Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson of his wish to see the mobile platform annihilated,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes for ZDNet. “‘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 [at the time, this bank balance has swelled massively since Jobs uttered these words], to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.'”
“Last week Apple scored a massive blow against Android in the form of a billion dollars in damages against handset and tablet maker Samsung. While there little doubt that this will now go to appeal, it’s certainly going to make Android handset makers lose some sleep,” Kingsley-Hughes writes. “But a win for Apple in the courts only takes the company so far. The best way for the Cupertino juggernaut to ‘go thermonuclear’ on Android is to obliterate its sales. The iPhone has the handset market well stitched up, and the iPad has all but wiped out high-end Android tablet sales. All that’s left is the newly emerged budget tablet market… Enter the iPad Mini.”
Kingsley-Hughes writes, “ZDNet‘s James Kendrick suggested that Apple could rock the world with an iPad Mini, which he dubbed the iBook. I have to say that if Apple does it right — and if past history is anything to go buy, it will — then this could be bigger than both the iPad and the iPhone, and it could be just the thermonuclear device that the company needs to win the war against Android.”
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