The Apple icon’s autobiography will by far be the most trending topic when it is officially released this Monday. In fact, it’s already setting the Net on fire, as the Associated Press (who received an advanced copy of the Walter Isaacson-penned bio) dishes on the tumultuous relationship between Jobs and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Let’s just say Stevie wasn’t huge on Schmidt resigning from Apple’s Board of Directors and jumping on the Android ship. Here’s an excerpt from the AP article.
Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted 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.”
Jobs used an expletive to describe Android and Google Docs, Google’s Internet-based word processing program. In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, California, cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn’t interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says.
“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.
Tell’em how you really feel Steve, lol.
