Apple's Steve Jobs Threatened 'Thermonuclear War' on Google Android

Steve Jobs wanted to "go thermonuclear war” on Google's Android software because he felt it was "grand theft" of Apple's features, according to his biography.

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Jobs said he'd “spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," according to an excerpt in the Associated Press (via Bloomberg).

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“I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product,” Jobs said in the book, according to the AP. “I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

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“He said, ‘I didn’t want my body to be opened ... I didn’t want to be violated in that way.’ He’s regretful about it,” Isaacson said. “I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don’t want something to exist, you can have magical thinking ... We talked about this a lot.”