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An excerpt was released from Walter Isaacson’s Biography on Steve Jobs by The Associated Press who was given an early release of the book. AP shares the reaction of Steve Jobs to the 2010 release of HTC’s Android phone which showed alarming similarities to the Apple iphone.
This quote from Steve Jobs sums up his “thoughts” on the matter.
“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.”
In particular, they share Steve Jobs’ reaction to HTC’s 2010 introduction of an Android phone that shared many features of the iPhone. Jobs told Isaacson 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.”