"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).
"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this," Jobs said.
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