Steve Jobs may have been notoriously private, but we will learn a lot from a biography of the innovative Apple CEO next week, including the fact that he wanted to “destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product."
That’s just one of the juicy tidbits from a new biography to be released on Monday. Jobs, who is portrayed as intensely competitive in the book, promised to go to “thermonuclear war" against Google because the search giant was guilty of “grand theft" for supposedly using Apple’s ideas in the development of its mobile operating system. The Associated Press got its hands on the book a few days before its official release.
Of particular interest in the book is a meeting Jobs had with Google’s Eric Schmidt in 2010. Jobs reportedly told Schmidt, “If you offer me $5 billion, I won’t want it. I’ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want."
The book details Jobs’ efforts to avoid medical treatment in the early stages of pancreatic cancer, choosing alternative methods instead. He didn’t have surgery until nine months after he was first diagnosed. It also talks about the years after he was booted from the company he founded, describing Apple’s then-new leaders as “corrupt people" who were in it for themselves “rather than making great products."
Jobs died earlier this month at the age of 56.
