This is why Steve Jobs once claimed to destroy Android until his last breath

The two tech giants, Apple and Google, don't like each other, which is almost universally known. The reason is simple because they have many businesses touching each other. Typically, two iOS and Android mobile operating systems are popular with billions of users around the world.

Steve Jobs, co-founder, president and former chief executive of Apple, when he lived, never intended to cooperate with Android. In Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography, there is a statement of the head of Apple that he will destroy Android until his last breath. Why does Steve Jobs hate Android so much?

Predrag Vasić, a computer engineer, recounted the relationship between Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt, a former Google CEO to help us answer this question.

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Steve Job and Eric Schmidt when they were colleagues (two in the middle).

In January 2007, Apple launched the first generation iPhone running iOS. At that time, Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt had a very good relationship with each other. Even Eric Schmidt was then holding the position of Google CEO and a member of Apple's Board of Directors.

A year and a half later (in September 2008), the first commercial version of Android 1.0 was released. Steve Jobs said that Android is a completely copied product of iOS and Eric Schmidt is a traitor. By Eric Schmidt as a member of the board of Apple was watching the iPhone prototypes before it was officially announced. Immediately, he saw the potential of the iPhone and decided to build an operating system that looks and works like iOS.

Steve Jobs was very angry and didn't want the two parties to reconcile. Even during a meeting at a cafe in Palo Alto later, Steve Jobs made strong actions such as banging a table, pointing his face straight and cursing at Google's board of directors. Steve Jobs even decided to focus his full power to destroy Android.

Steve Jobs stated that: ' Android is a stolen product. I will destroy it. I'm going to take my last breath, spend every penny of Apple's $ 40 billion to fix that mistake. "

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From his colleague, Eric Schmidt became Steve Job's "unseen" enemy.(Photo: Daniel Adel / The New York Times)

Since then, any collaboration with Google related to Android has been dismissed by Steve Jobs. He has spent a lot of effort and effort to optimize the experience on iOS to bring the satisfaction of users with the aim of defeating Android in the market.

Today, both Android and iOS are popular operating systems on the market, but considering the factors such as interface, security, consistency and consistency, Apple's operating system is always appreciated. than.