Steve Jobs Vowed to Spend His 'Last Dying Breath' Destroying Android

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Posted October 21, 2011 at 6:29am by Shalom Levytam

Quotes from the Steve Jobs biography reveal how upset the Apple CEO was with Google's launch of Android and that Jonathan Ive had 'more operation power' at Apple than anyone, according the Associated Press.

Jobs was reportedly livid that HTC released an Android device which feature 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."

"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."

At a meeting with Eric Schmidt in Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit.

"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.

Jobs also reveals how much influence Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief, was given at the company. Jobs called him his "spiritual partner".

He told Isaacson that Ive had "more operation power" at Apple than anyone besides Jobs himself - that there's no one at the company who can tell Ive what to do. That, says Jobs, is "the way I set it up."

In the book Jobs reveals that the name for Apple came to him as he was trying various diets, including one of fruits and vegetables. While on one of his fruitarian diets Jobs had just returned from an apple farm and thought the name sounded "fun, spirited and not intimidating."

According to the book, Steve Jobs gave up Christianity at age 13 when he saw starving children on the cover of a Life magazine. He asked his Sunday school pastor whether God knew what would happened to him and consequently never went back. He did study Zen Buddhism later.

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Steve Jobs Vowed to Spend His 'Last Dying Breath' Destroying Android

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True - October 22, 2011 at 1:20am

RIP your were A fantastic inventor but you should of believed in God and Jesus Christ. Rip

True - October 22, 2011 at 4:10am

Yup

Nobo1 - October 22, 2011 at 2:54pm

he did believe in god, just not Christian god :-)

Breix - October 22, 2011 at 12:37am

This guy is good.. Up to the last days of his life on earth.. You gotta give it that..

gringo - October 21, 2011 at 5:49pm

And, Android is winning since it's growing faster than iOS and it's already bigger than iOS!!! RIP Steve...

6italia0 - October 22, 2011 at 4:35am

To be honest, standard basic iOS is absolute garbage. The only reason I chose the iPhone as my personal favorite is because of jailbreaking. Without cydia, the iPhone is absolutely useless to me in almost every way. Android phones are cool and all, but there is nothing unique about them because there are so many of them that all do the same thing and rooting them doesn't give it much justice either, astro I guess, but still rooting just lets you make the phone do what other android phones do, but no actual tweaks or user based preferences. Jailbroken iOS allows me to do everything I want my phone to do. jailbreaking is also why I use mac and not windows since most jailbreaking software is made for mac and the OS is much more user friendly and proves 10X more useful for the type of work that I do. But for others it may be different, but this is just my opinion

Alex - October 21, 2011 at 11:57am

"Stop using our ideas". How about notification bar rip off. very original. may be he asked siri which part of android we can take as revenge.

Russell - October 21, 2011 at 7:33am

"I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want." Waa waa!

Nobo1 - October 21, 2011 at 7:06am

stole GUI from xerox? was it patented ? no therefore it was freely available...

gringo - October 21, 2011 at 5:54pm

Well, technically it was copied. GUI and mouse weren't Steve's original ideas.

boreddrummer - October 21, 2011 at 7:15pm

he isn't credited with having invented the GUI or the mouse, as any literature on the matter will tell you, he is famous for popularising these things not inventing them.

Andrews - October 21, 2011 at 6:47am

How is this new? We all know android is a bad copy of the iPhone.

6italia0 - October 22, 2011 at 4:36am

Highly agreed

bibby - October 22, 2011 at 8:05am

Agreed :)