Jobs vowed to ruin rival Google system

Steve Jobs: vowed to ruin rival Google system
10 April 2012

Steve Jobs wanted to destroy Google's mobile operating system, Android, and said he'd spend "all of Apple's $40billion in the bank" and his dying breath if necessary, it was revealed today.

The extent of the late Apple boss's animosity is revealed in a forthcoming authorised biography by Walter Isaacson. Jobs, right, who died of cancer on October 5 aged 56, viewed Android's similarity to Apple's iOS software as "grand theft". According to the book, he said: "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product."

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