It is a principal and not money. But I think Steve Jobs a bit weird and dictate the idea with the notion it only came from him. The conceptual idea about iphone that everyone can think not only for him. Motorola or Nokia probably has thought about it before Jobs, Apple can do it because it can design hardware and write the software this is why Sony can design it but can not write the software or Microsoft because it is a software company.
It is the same thing for design a website if you can design layout the website and if you can code it the website is turning out absolute stunning design. I did/do so I know. You can get a group to design the layout and other group does coding. If I want it perfects I have to do myself and I won't hire anyone. One person project. It takes longer but it turns out perfect. So the point I like to make here is if the company can design the hardware and the software the product turns out like Iphone unfortunately it seems only Apple can do it as same as the Mac book or their other products. Google does not have hardware design background so they incorporate with Samsung, HTC...many others.
In the past 2, 3 months I have looked into the Android smart phone code and it seems good and in the order, it smarts to use linux as OS maybe because of it all the Android phone is open source so I can view it and tell you now. Today, he released his book even he was already dead, it is top seller in amazon.com not so many can resonate and advocate even after dead. He is a stranger man not sure he is good or bad person? I heard that he was a mean person. If you write the book for your children understanding you when you're dead which is understandable but you write with a lot of anger relating to what your idea your invention, see some of it below to have your own judgment.
The depths of Jobs' antipathy toward Google leaps out of Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Apple's co-founder. The book goes on sale Monday, less than three weeks after Jobs' long battle with pancreatic cancer culminated in his Oct. 5 death. The Associated Press obtained a copy Thursday.
It's clear that the perceived theft represented an unforgiveable act of betrayal to Jobs, who had been a mentor to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and had welcomed Google's CEO at the time, Eric Schmidt, to be on Apple's board.
"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 Isaacson. "I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death because they know they are guilty."
Android now represents one of the chief threats to the iPhone. Although iPhones had a head start and still draw huge lines when new models go on sale, Android devices sold twice as well in the second quarter. According to Gartner, Android's market share grew 2 1/2 times to 43 percent, compared with 17 percent a year earlier. The iPhone's grew as well, but by a smaller margin -- to 18 percent, from 14 percent.
But in 2008, a year after the iPhone came out, Google unveiled plans to release Android as a free software system that phone makers can use to make devices that compete with the iPhone. Jobs was so infuriated that he went to Google's Mountain View headquarters -- about nine miles from Apple's Cupertino office-- to try to stop the project, according to the biography.
Jobs' persuasive powers failed to sway Google's leaders.
Now, more than 550,000 devices running on Android are being activated each day. Apple, meanwhile, sold about 3 million fewer iPhones than anticipated in the July-September quarter, contributing to a sharp drop in the company's stock. The newest Android challenger to the iPhone, the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung, is scheduled to go on sale next month.
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