Steve Jobs was willing to "go thermonuclear war" to "destroy" Android

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Hyperbole aside, I'm not sure what to think of this, though I am remionded of Apple v. Microsoft, where, to me, it seems like Apple tried to gain all rights to GU Is

Somebody doesn't like competition, it seems.

~looks at iTouch and Android phone side-by-side~

They don't seem that similar. Perhaps the coding is, but outwardly, it's not like I'd look at one and go "STOLEN!" Besides, there's not exactly a lot of variation on how you can do a smartphone operating system anyhow...

I much prefer Android. Among other things, because they aren't obsessively trying to sue their competitors for offering similar products.

I suspect that the Palo Alto Research Center would have a few words to say on the subject of stealing interfaces...

edited 23rd Oct '11 5:45:21 AM by Nohbody

Isn't Android based on the Linux kernel?

Reminds me of Steve Ballmer's "I'LL KILL HIM" reaction when one of his employees switched sides.

Hah, good thing he's gone then.

I hate Apple, I don't see why there's all these documentaries coming out talking about how Steve Jobs was some kind of hero. An innovator for sure, but the media is portraying him like some kind of electronic mother theresa.

His products suck, his company sucks, and his fanboys are all hipsters. :P

Jobs didn't really steal their stuff, though he was obviously inspired. Besides, at this point PARC getting money for inventing modern computing almost seems wrong.

^^ Fitting comparison, since Mother Teresa was also a cunt with extremely good publicity.

I don't know how to respond to that, but suspect that it is a flame war-waiting-to-happen.

~goes off to read about it~

And here we go again.

@Barkey OH GOD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE NOW I DONT FEEL LIKE A TOTAL ASSHAT.

I appreciate what he did, especially Pixar, but modern Apple pissed me off majorly...

And I find it sad that his 1984 commercial showed his company fighting a major conglomerate figure...only to become them.

Yeah, good attitude.

"He did something disagreeable. Glad he's dead."

Woah, this topic is going sour fast. To try to redirect it back onto less offensive stuff, yeah, that's alright if Steve Jobs wanted to "go to war" if you will with Android. Android is owned by Google, iPhone by Apple, and the two are reaching the stage where they're beginning to battle for dominance, like Coke and Pepsi.

Though this comparison is less apt because there's plenty which one does which the other doesn't. Google owns much more of a stake in the internet than Apple, with the likes of Google+ and Youtube, while Apple owns more hardware-based things (more kinds of computers, iPad(?), iPod).

(Sidebar, there is significant evidence that Mother Theresa wasn't as good as people interpret her to be, but that's for another topic)

re:Yej:

Yes, Android is a Linux-based system, and like Linux, it is open source. That's why there is also Fedora and Ubuntu. You and I could even make our own distributions of Linux if we had knowledge in OS-level programming. All we need to do is give it a licence (like GNU or Creative Commons) and we'd be ready to rock.

Get Droids people; they're cool as fuck.

They're also useful.

The only thing I have to say to this is: lol wut.

I don't use either.

Stupid smartphones...

I misread the title as "Steve Jobs was willing to 'go thermonuclear war' to 'destroy' Asteroid" and had an incredibly awesome daydream. I'd watch a movie about that.

More seriously, I'm not really surprised.

WAT.

edited 25th Oct '11 8:27:02 AM by Pentadragon

"I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ," etc., but that's off-topic.

she had a bit of a thing for finding the suffering of the poor beautiful instead of trying to eliminate poverty.

Obviously, Android = Cancer and "go thermonuclear war" = "get chemotherapy"

Well at least we look good in our Hipster glasses, useless scarves, and tight brown jeans, right? Right?

*sniff*

edited 25th Oct '11 12:03:06 PM by Newfable

Dude, nobody ever looked good on brown jeans. Jeans are supposed to be either black or blue.

edited 25th Oct '11 11:56:39 AM by SavageHeathen

Well there's no context to the "thermonuclear war" comment though. Like, what methods comprise the set of actions allowed in "thermonuclear war"? If he's going to try to outcompete through awesomeness of product, that's perfectly normal. If he wanted to sue Google to oblivion, that's not cool.