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Intellectual Property

Oct. 27, 2011

Apple's Jobs vowed to destroy Google's Android, biography reveals

Apple Inc.'s legal crusade against Google Inc.'s Android operating system came from the top, according to a biography of Steve Jobs published Monday, just 19 days after his death.


By Craig Anderson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Apple Inc.'s legal crusade against Google Inc.'s Android operating system came from the very top, according to an authorized biography of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs published Monday, just 19 days after his death.


"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product," Jobs told biographer Walter Issacson in an interview last year, recounted in the self-titled biogra...

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