The CEO felt the features were "grand theft" and declared he'd "spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong."
Steve Jobs wanted to "go thermonuclear war” on Google's Android software because he felt it was "grand theft" of Apple's features, according to his biography.Jobs said he'd “spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," according to an excerpt in the Associated Press (via Bloomberg).
Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs details how tension ran so high between Jobs and then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Schmidt was forced to resign from Apple's board in 2009.
Steve Jobs: 10 Memorable Milestones of the Apple Co-Founder's Career A Buddhist and vegetarian who once handed out bottles of carrot juice to trick-or-treaters, Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004. He died Oct. 5 at the age of 56. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak introduced the Apple II computer in 1977 and took their company public in 1980, an event that made Jobs a multimillionaire able to set his sights on conquering the entertainment industry. He succeeded by turning Pixar into what is arguably the most consistent film studio in history and by becoming the largest shareholder of Disney, the industry’s most iconic company. THR looks back at these and other career milestones of the American tech giant.
The two Steves: Jobs (on left) and Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak
Jobs
founded Apple Computer with his friend Steve Wozniak in his parent's
garage. Jobs sold his VW bus and Wozniak his scientific computer to
raise the $1,300 to found Apple. The original Apple computers were
hand-built by Wozniak.
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