[MyLeva]

Steve Jobs said he wanted to destroy Android and would spend all of Apple's money and his dying breath if that is what it took to do so. and

Mr Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android's similarity to iOS as "grand theft". this coming from the man that said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

`Good artists copy great artists steal and we have allways been shameless about stealing great ideas`


me thinks this `war` might rumble on for a while...

and this is after apple have finalised a deal with samsung for supplying the quad core A6 for the next iphone...

http://www.crn.com/news/components-p...EEg**.ecappj01


"Apple has been in talks with Samsung over shipment of its A6 quad-core mobile processor chips to be used in the next iPhone. It appears that Apple clearly has concluded that Samsung remains a critical business partner,” an executive from a Korean-based Apple parts supplier told The Korea Times, requesting anonymity. “Samsung Electronics will apply its advanced 28-nanometer processing technology to produce qualified A6 mobile APs. TSMC will provide customized chips with designs from Apple, however, the volume will be very small.” so the iPhone 5 will be a quad core

[ttoothh]

It's a shame Steve Jobs' died and he brought a lot of great things into the public arena, but he had a lot of serious personality problems I think. Unfortunately the same things that made him a great CEO also made him a bad CEO...if that makes any sense.

[Efonukmp]

so the iPhone 5 will be a quad core

Damn well should be, every high end phone released in the from Mid-2012 onwards will be.

[jabader]

makes perfect sense, people who make big impacts are usually driven.

[parishilton]

Its very duplicitous. In the video admits stealing ideas is the best way to get new ones. Then later he says thats why he wants to destroy android- because its a stolen product(idea)?

So he forgot about all the idea stealing and actually believes he invented everything? He didn't invent the mouse, or the gui, or touch screens or tablets.

[Binuilienzync]

I guess his anger comes from when Google's CEO was on the board of Apple while the iPhone was in development. At the same time Google was also developing Andriod, but that was originally going to be a blackberry clone. Then after the iPhone is released it turns into a touchscreen device. So he probably feels personally betrayed.

[Efonukmp]

I guess his anger comes from when Google's CEO was on the board of Apple while the iPhone was in development. At the same time Google was also developing Andriod, but that was originally going to be a blackberry clone. Then after the iPhone is released it turns into a touchscreen device. So he probably feels personally betrayed.

The HTC Dream or the first ever Android device was build upon HTC's older handsets.

They had been making touch screen handsets forever.

[wheettebott]

I guess his anger comes from when Google's CEO was on the board of Apple while the iPhone was in development. At the same time Google was also developing Andriod, but that was originally going to be a blackberry clone. Then after the iPhone is released it turns into a touchscreen device. So he probably feels personally betrayed.

Android is and always has been software. Software is scalable. Software evolves to run on varying hardware.

Android was no more a clone of "BlackBerry" as Microsoft Windows is a chicken.

Case in point: Symbian.

Derived from Psions EPOC running on palmtop computers, it eventually powered candybar, slider, flip and touchscree smartphones. From phones like the E71 to the touchscreened SonyEricsson P800, the software evolved with the hardware that was available at the time.

To expect that Android would not scale onto capacitive touchscreened handsets is silly. Palm did it, BlackBerry OS did it. Windows Mobile/Phone 7 did it. Even MeeGo and Symbian did it.

As for Schmidt being on Apple's board of directors, Google bought Android INC in 2005. Eric Schmidt joined the Apple BoD in 2006. The publicly known purchase of Android INC should have made Apple aware that Google were entering the mobile phone business nd that their futures were inevitably going to clash.