Steve Jobs
I feel the next few days will be busy as the organic Steve Jobs comes out in the bits and pieces. Next, according to the AP, which bought a copy on Thursday (where can I get one?), after Android started to look more and more like iOS, Jobs had extremely harsh words for Eric Schmidt and Google.
Isaacson wrote that when HTC launched an Android phone that boasted many of the iPhone's touch and other popular features, Jobs was livid in January 2010.
Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an expletive rant that the actions of Google amounted to "great theft." "I'm going to spend my last dying breath if I need it, and I'm going to spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank,
Google and Apple had worked together to bring the google searching and mapping services provided by Google to the iPhone, the executives told the audience, and Mr. Schmidt joked that the collaboration was so close.
Two men would simply merge their companies and call them "AppleGoo." "Steve, my congratulations to you," Mr. Schmidt told his corporate ally. "This product will be hot." Mr. Jobs, with an ear-to-ear smile, acknowledged the compliment.
Such warmth is in short supply nowadays. Mr. Jobs, Mr. Schmidt, and their businesses are now engaged in a grim royal battle over the future and the shape of mobile computing and cell phones, with reverberating implications across the digital landscape.
In the last six months, Apple and Google have jousted over acquisitions, patents, directors, advisers, and iPhone applications. Mr. Jobs and Mr. Schmidt have taken shots at each other’s companies in the media and in private exchanges with employees.
Apple sued HTC, the Taiwanese mobile manufacturer running Google's Android operating system, claiming it had violated HTC.
Patents for iPhone. The move was widely viewed as the start of Apple's own legal assault on Google itself, as well as an attempt to slow Google's plans to extend its dominance to mobile devices.
Apple believes the devices such as smartphones & tablets should have strictly controlled proprietary standards and that customers should benefit from services on those gadgets with apps downloaded from Apple's own App Store.
On the other hand, Google wants smartphones to have open, nonproprietary platforms so users can freely roam the Web for apps that work on many devices. Google has long feared that rivals like Microsoft or
Apple or wireless carriers like Verizon could block access to services on devices like smartphones,
That might soon overshadow computers as the Web's primary gateway. Google's Android promotion is, in essence, an effort to control its mobile world destiny.