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“grand theft” Android :O
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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.
Steve Jobs pledged “thermonuclear war” on “grand theft” Android - SlashGear
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Re: “grand theft” Android :O
So Steve Jobs wanted Google android to stop stealing IOS ideas ? Remember when MacOS stole from Xerox or IOS5 stole from android
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Re: “grand theft” Android :O
^That's an unwise justification
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.
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Re: “grand theft” Android :O
*useless stuff*
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Re: “grand theft” Android :O
haha doom. You've become an anti-apple troll
Lost any company shares?
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Re: “grand theft” Android :O
doomgiver @ please take some time off the forum and sort out your problems in real life.
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Re: “grand theft” Android :O
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.)
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Re: “grand theft” Android :O
I thought this thread was about GTA 3 for Android, which was announced recently.
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Re: “grand theft” Android :O
More or less same here.
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Re: “grand theft” Android :O
If Tim Russert were still around, you can bet he'd have pulled this out as soon as Jobs called Android "stolen".
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Re: “grand theft” Android :O
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
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Originally Posted by s18000rpm
thought this thread was about GTA 3 for Android, which was announced recently
Whaat?? What about iOS
and free will it be?
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thetechfreak
Whaat?? What about iOS
and free will ....
Grand Theft Auto 3 coming to iOS, Android
But its only for high end Androids.
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