Steve Jobs Vowed To Destroy Google’s Android System

Steve Jobs Vowed To Destroy Google’s Android System

Even in death, Steve Jobs knows how to heat things up.

In what may just be the first of many posthumous controversies to hound the departed Apple co-founder, reports say Jobs had vowed to do everything he could to “destroy” Google’s Android mobile operating system, which he accused of copying the Apple’s iOS. According to a soon-to-be-released biography about the recognized father of the iPad, iPod, and iPhone, Jobs was quoted as saying that “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.”

The Android is viewed as the main reason for the falling between Apple and Google, which used to work hand in hand. Before the relationship between the two giant companies, Apple’s iPhone allowed integration of various Google apps. The Android has since dislodged the iOS in the global smartphone market, with Google’s OS integrated in nearly 50 percent of all shipments, BBC said in a report.

However, Android currently enjoys almost half of the global Smartphone market, versus 19 percent for Apple.

In response, Apple has been immersed in various lawsuits against various Smartphone makers which use the Android software.

Samsung of South Korea was a particular target of Jobs. That company is now prohibited to selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 product in Australia and Germany due to Apple’s legal offensive.

According to various media reports, the relationship between Apple and Google was warm and close prior to the introduction of the Android system in late 2007, less than one year before the launch of the first iPhone.

Subsequently, Apple blocked several Google programs from its app stores.

Eric Schmidt, the current Google executive chairman, was at one time a board member at Apple.

Steve Jobs Vowed To Destroy Google’s Android System