I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40bn in the bank, 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.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (original title "iSteve: The Book of Jobs")
Steve Jobs swore to "destroy Android" in his anger over what he saw as outright copying of Apple's ideas in Android phones unveiled early in 2010, according to a new biography being released following his death this month.
Walter Isaacson, Jobs's official biographer, says Jobs was livid in January 2010 when Taiwan's HTC introduced an Android phone with many of the popular features of the iPhone. He launched into an expletive-laden tirade in which he said Google's actions amounted to "grand theft".
By that time Eric Schmidt, then Google's chief executive and still its chairman, had left the board of Apple where he had served between 2006 and 2009 – crucially, covering the period during which the first iPhone was launched and which enabled Google to negotiate a deal to provide search, maps and its YouTube video service on the phones.
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