From
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/jobs-i-will-spend-my-last-breath-fighting-android-a-stolen-product.ars
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According to Isaacson, Steve Jobs' reaction to the January 2010 unveiling
of the HTC smartphone lineup was fury. Calling it "a great theft," Jobs
supposedly proclaimed, "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... I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product.
I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
Jobs meant it. Apple would kick off the lawsuits shortly thereafter, and
the company hasn't been ignored itself. Countersuits have been filed, and
as we have reported on Ars, just about everyone is suing everyone else.
Of course, lawsuits are usually made to be settled, but Jobs was having
none of it. Meeting with then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, a man who for years
sat on Apple's board before Android made that no longer possible, Jobs
told Schmidt that money wasn't going to make it right. "I don't want your
money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it," Jobs reportedly said.
"I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android,
that's all I want." And with that, the door to any possible settlement was
slammed shut. We wonder if Jobs' passing will open the door to lawsuit
settlements down the road.
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