Steve Jobs vowed to 'destroy' Android

Wizerzak · Oct 21, 2011

Thanks for fixing the link, had no idea how to do it.....

BORTZ · Oct 22, 2011

*reads source material*
sounds pretty uninformed to me.

awssk8er · Oct 22, 2011

Apple is selfish and puts too many restrictions on their overpriced crap.

Google just made an operating system that was pretty much better in every way.

It's called competition. Not a stolen product...

Bladexdsl · Oct 22, 2011

well his dead now and it didn't happen AW SHIT!

jonesman99 · Oct 22, 2011

I mean, he already took out my 120gb Zune from the grave... WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT?????!!!!!!

Now, he's gunning for my only mobile phone...

Now if he made iDevices (other than the classic iPod) with over 64gb of HDD space, then they will get more money from me, until then, I'll get a job there and take money from them... HA!

sputnix · Oct 22, 2011

what a rectangular phone with a glass touch screen, an app MARKET, OPEN SOURCE, SMART PHONE... THEY STOLE MY IDEA I'M A GONNA SUE THOSE SONS OF BI- derp cancer dead.

I predict I'm going to get flamed for saying that

CarbonX13 · Oct 22, 2011

He wouldn't have said that if Android didn't become more popular than iOS after the release of Froyo. It's called competition, and in the consumer market of today, features that are "yours" won't stay so for over a year, let alone forever. As an example, seeing how iOS 5's "Notification Center" is a blatant copy of Android's notification system, I don't see how he can justify his point of Android stealing from iOS either.

FireGrey · Oct 22, 2011

I just somehow get the feeling that this is to get apple and android fans to fight.
1. Very hypocritical
2. Shows how scared of Android they are
3. He just dies so people will be saying bad stuff about him saying it's good he's dead, making apple fans mad.
4. They said they sewed companies using android for their phones, it makes Apple look worse to haters.

This might be a genius plot to give apple more attention! Maybe Steve Jobs isn't dead at all, dun dun dunnnnnn

Forstride · Oct 22, 2011

It's funny how everyone mourns his death, and considers him to be one of the world's most innovative people and whatnot, and then one thing he said is brought up, and now everyone is all "FUCK YOU STEVE JOBS!"

Not saying what he said was in good taste, if that even WAS what he said (Word for word. It can sound a lot different depending on the wording), but you're being a hypocrite just like he was if you're going to do that.

chris888222 · Oct 22, 2011

According to Yahoo news page:

Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an expletive-laced rant that Google's actions amounted to "grand theft."

He said this a year ago.

KingAsix · Oct 22, 2011

All I got to say to that dying wish is good luck cause all dreams don't come true.

Being both a previous iphone user and a current Android user, I can safely say that android is better down to every detail. Even my basic boost mobile unrooted android phone (Samsung Prevail) is better than my old jailbroken iphone 3G. If it doesn't make it better on the spot, android doesn't have the limitations that Apples place on the iphone....and due to the android being open source and on so many different type of phones, I can have the basic phone I got or the a hell expensive one or one with a keyboard. Android gives people choices and I don't know about you, but I like to choose.

Hell the same thing I said about the phones can be said about the tablets.

DeadLocked · Oct 22, 2011

FireGrey said:
I just somehow get the feeling that this is to get apple and android fans to fight.
1. Very hypocritical
2. Shows how scared of Android they are
3. He just dies so people will be saying bad stuff about him saying it's good he's dead, making apple fans mad.
4. They said they sewed companies using android for their phones, it makes Apple look worse to haters.

This might be a genius plot to give apple more attention! Maybe Steve Jobs isn't dead at all, dun dun dunnnnnn

Not every news event is a plot from a movie.

denieru7 · Oct 22, 2011

sputnix said:
what a rectangular phone with a glass touch screen, an app MARKET, OPEN SOURCE, SMART PHONE... THEY STOLE MY IDEA I'M A GONNA SUE THOSE SONS OF BI- derp cancer dead.

I predict I'm going to get flamed for saying that

Contrary to what you think, I actually agree with you. Especially with all the patent disputes they have going on with Samsung (and other companies), it makes one wonder whether Apple really thinks they own rectangles and black. As for those court cases, none of the design claims made by Apple stood any ground with the judges, but it was rather a small dispute regarding the way the Gallery app "bounces" that won the case. Sadly, the Gallery app is not exclusive to the Galaxy line but rather comes straight from the Android OS.

The thing that makes me hate Apple the most is the fact that no matter what they'll release, people will buy it simply because it's Apple and thus "fashionable" and "techy" and "hip". After the longest time between iPhones ever, the iPhone 4S simply added a new processor, new camera and Siri - "improvements" still months behind leading Android-based smartphones like the Galaxy SII. But who cares? They still get a record number of preorders and they still sell like hotcakes. They could have sold all those updates separately -- iPhone4S1 with A5 processor, iPhone4S2 with added new camera, iPhone 4S3 with added dual antennas, iPhone 4S4 with added Siri -- and the "hip" crowd would buy every single revision nonetheless. A sad fact that I feel is epitomised by that sad kid who camped for days outside the Sydney Apple store waiting to pay $999 for an iPhone 4S, which he claimed was "better value" than the Samsung store literally down the road selling 10 Galaxy SII's a day for $2. Apple has an almost cult-ish following that is blinded by their image for being "technologically advanced", lacking a rational sense of judgement.

I think it's just sad that average people simply associate tablets as "iPads", phones as "iPhones" and mp3 players as "iPods" simply because of the image that Apple has created. The only thing Apple can do is make shit look good.

TL;DR: Fucking Jobs.

ProtoKun7 · Oct 22, 2011

sputnix said:
what a rectangular phone with a glass touch screen, an app MARKET, OPEN SOURCE, SMART PHONE... THEY STOLE MY IDEA I'M A GONNA SUE THOSE SONS OF BI- derp cancer dead.

I predict I'm going to get flamed for saying that

There's no way Apple would make iOS open source.

denieru7 said:
As for those court cases, none of the design claims made by Apple stood any ground with the judges, but it was rather a small dispute regarding the way the Gallery app "bounces" that won the case. Sadly, the Gallery app is not exclusive to the Galaxy line but rather comes straight from the Android OS.

I found that ridiculous when I heard about it. I still do, to be honest.

denieru7 said:
A sad fact that I feel is epitomised by that sad kid who camped for days outside the Sydney Apple store waiting to pay $999 for an iPhone 4S, which he claimed was "better value" than the Samsung store literally down the road selling 10 Galaxy SII's a day for $2. Apple has an almost cult-ish following that is blinded by their image for being "technologically advanced", lacking a rational sense of judgement.

Oh, wow, I never heard about that (the kid; I heard about the S IIs, and I'd've loved to make use of that if I were there

).

That kid's an idiot.

(and not iFish)

denieru7 · Oct 23, 2011

ProtoKun7 said:
denieru7 said:

A sad fact that I feel is epitomised by that sad kid who camped for days outside the Sydney Apple store waiting to pay $999 for an iPhone 4S, which he claimed was "better value" than the Samsung store literally down the road selling 10 Galaxy SII's a day for $2. Apple has an almost cult-ish following that is blinded by their image for being "technologically advanced", lacking a rational sense of judgement.

Click to expand...

Oh, wow, I never heard about that (the kid; I heard about the S IIs, and I'd've loved to make use of that if I were there ).

That kid's an idiot.

Yeah, I would have much liked to get one too, but they only sold it to the first 10 people every day for 5 days, and by the time I found out there were already like 40 people lined up

(and not iFish)

Nimbus · Oct 23, 2011

Well, I'll stand by this statement.

Had Jobs been a normal, everyday guy, and not let it all get to his head, I might have had some respect for him.

Now that I have read this, I'm teetering on throwing all that respect off of a massive cliff. The words that strike me as best describing him are, Egotistical, Arrogant, Unoriginal, and Power Hungry. The Tech world does not need any of these characteristics, and I stand by that.

*Looks at Hand, and realizes there's not anything there*

Oh wait a minute, I'm actually implying I had any respect to begin with!

_Chaz_ · Oct 23, 2011

I guess we know who won that battle, am I right?

Bladexdsl · Oct 23, 2011

google is KILLING apple and there's the proof the CEO is dead!

Foxi4 · Oct 23, 2011

It's easy to demonize Jobs, but let's make one thing clear - he was one of the important motors of the industry.

He stole Xerox's GUI - that is correct. Xerox wasn't going to release it though, so if he wouldn't do that, we'd never see windows as we are now. He did not invent the mouse. He was the first one to find a use for the device though, and nowadays pointers and cursors are present on nearly every device. You could say the same thing about many things he "stole".

I agree, he was an incredible hypocrite, but at the same time, the only serious competitor of Gates. He allowed the computing market to thrive by providing competition to Windows, competition that was not just a few crazy geeks praising a penguin and re-compiling their kernels in an infinite loop - competition of an actual, working and stable OS that required little maintenance.

If not people like Jobs, we'd be still using command lines in our daily lives, and despite all his "deadly sins", we must respect him.

Obviously I'm the last person to praise Apple products - who knows me is aware of that simple fact. I must tip my imaginary hat for Jobs though, even if only for the fact that he pushed Microsoft to the heights it reaches now.

CCNaru · Oct 23, 2011

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