First of all this makes me want one even more. Secondly I wonder if Steve Jobs would have cancelled this BS? I've been curious about Android development for the nearly four years I've been doing iOS development. I'll start porting my free ad-supported app to Android now. Bye Apple!
"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 told biographer Walter Isaacson, in the book, which hit shelves last October.
"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this," Jobs said.
He always spoke in such certain terms that it seemed like everything was black and white to him. His actual behavior tended to be much more tempered than his rhetoric.
I think there's a very good chance he wouldn't have actually pushed the button on stuff like this, as much as part of him may have wanted to.
I was of the understanding that he switch positions pretty suddenly. eg, he could go from telling you why some idea was shit to the same idea being the best thing ever over the course of 30 minutes (often then taking credit for that idea).
What? Apple's aggressive use of patents started on Jobs' watch. He crowed about Apple's patents in keynotes. He swore (on record to his biographer) that he was going to destroy Android even if it cost Apple every penny they had.
Why in the world would you think that he would be cancelling this, or any other kind of patent action?
Sorry just ignorance on my part as I haven't read the biography. If Steve was really into this type of behavior I'm curious who in the company still thinks this has a net positive effect for Apple?
Jobs started, and was the driving force behind this nonsense. If anything, I hope his absence will allow Cook et al to "gracefully" withdraw themselves from his idiotic/evil plans to sue everyone into oblivion.
Apple can't simply drop all of the lawsuits, as to do so would be an admission that it was a bad idea from its conception. Instead, they can wait until they suffer one of these judgements, then push for a cross-licensing deal.
I don't think so. There are many pages online that say that Steve Jobs was absolutely against Android. As in, he wasn't in it for the money. He literally wanted to obliterate it. So, I think, if Steve was in charge, there would actually have been no "bond" or anything. He would just want a blanket ban, and that is all.
I'm working on a new iOS app and I've started porting it to Android as a result of all this. As an iOS developer I feel complicit in what Apple's doing lately.
