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“grand theft” Android :O

12 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/%E2%80%9Cgrand-theft%E2%80%9D-android-o.147862/

pratik385
pratik385 Original post #1
Oct 21, 2011 at 4:34 PM
Steve Jobs described Android as a “grand theft” of iPhone technology, promising to “go thermonuclear war” to “destroy” Google’s smartphone platform according to a new biography of the Apple founder. In a subsequent heated meeting with Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google, Jobs refused to consider any sort of settlement to the lawsuit Apple filed, arguing that his company had “plenty of money” and telling Schmidt “I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want” according to a copy of the book obtained early by the Associated Press.
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Steve Jobs pledged “thermonuclear war” on “grand theft” Android - SlashGear
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noob #2
Oct 21, 2011 at 5:14 PM
So Steve Jobs wanted Google android to stop stealing IOS ideas ? Remember when MacOS stole from Xerox or IOS5 stole from android
Sarath
Sarath #3
Oct 21, 2011 at 5:23 PM
^That's an unwise justification :D

BTW if Android hadn't stolen from iOS then we would still be doing the "Which is better, Symbian or iOS" discussions.

Almost everyone in this generation of smartphones have copied both the SW and hardware aspects of apple. They will just have to live with it now.
doomgiver
doomgiver #4
Oct 21, 2011 at 6:03 PM
*useless stuff*
Sarath
Sarath #5
Oct 21, 2011 at 6:22 PM
haha doom. You've become an anti-apple troll :D

Lost any company shares? ;)
Who
Who #6
Oct 21, 2011 at 8:29 PM
doomgiver @ please take some time off the forum and sort out your problems in real life.
sameer.pur
sameer.pur #7
Oct 21, 2011 at 9:18 PM
Well, not everyone goes around filing lawsuits daily.
If you have invented something and it's your idea, then why does it needs to be expressed so extremely. Frankly according to the summary it seemed a bit too harsh and uncivilized IMHO. :|
(No disrespect meant.)
s18000rpm
s18000rpm #8
Oct 21, 2011 at 9:28 PM
I thought this thread was about GTA 3 for Android, which was announced recently. :|
Skud
Skud #9
Oct 21, 2011 at 9:57 PM
More or less same here. ;)
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noob #10
Oct 21, 2011 at 11:34 PM
If Tim Russert were still around, you can bet he'd have pulled this out as soon as Jobs called Android "stolen".

thetechfreak
thetechfreak #11
Oct 22, 2011 at 8:28 PM
WEll I would say both have been "borrowing from each other"


The notification bar for one. But yeas Apple and iPhone will forever be the revolutionaries of Smartphone
s18000rpm said:
thought this thread was about GTA 3 for Android, which was announced recently
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Whaat?? What about iOS :banghead: and free will it be?