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Steve Jobs vows to destroys Androids.
The relationship between Steve Jobs and Google chairman Eric Schmidt soured over Android.
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.
Apple is suing several smartphone makers which use the Android software.
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I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
Steve Jobs
Apple co-founder
At that time, Google’s chief executive, now chairman, Eric Schmidt also sat on the board of Apple.
However, relations began to sour when Google unveiled Android in November 2007, 10 months after the iPhone first appeared.
In subsequent years, Apple rejected a number of Google programs from its App store, forcing the company to create less-integrated web app versions.
Android has subsequently enjoyed rapid adoption and now accounts for around 48% of global smartphone shipments, compared to 19% for Apple.
But its growth has not gone uncontested. Apple has waged an aggressive proxy-war against Android, suing a number of the hardware manufacturers which have adopted it for their tablets and smartphones.
Mr Schmidt resigned from the Apple board in August 2009. He was later quoted by Bloomberg as saying: “I was on the board until I couldn’t stay on the board anymore.”
This article was taken from BBC NEWS on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15400984