Steve Jobs vowed to "destroy Android" according to biography

Some of you fanboys need to get the sand out of your...well, not going to finish that. Android copied iOS completely? Sure. That's why iOS keeps getting update after update for things that Android has done since it's release. Please, get over yourselves.

To some people Jobs' response may seem disproportionate. After all, business is business and Apple has done its fair share of "sherlocking" in the past. I suspect the main reason why Jobs comes across as particularly incensed by Google directly copying the iPhone for its Android phone OS is because he had already experienced a near identical and disastrous scenario between Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh interface.

The several interesting parallels between the Android/iOS battle for smartphone supremacy and the Windows/Mac PC saga of a previous era have already been made by industry commentators. First time around, Windows went on to dominate the PC market, Steve Jobs lost his job and Apple very nearly went to the cleaners.

In both cases the CEO of the copycat company had close and early access to Apple's designs, plans and prototypes. Bill Gates was invited in so that Microsoft could develop software for the new Mac OS while Eric Schmidt of Google was a member of Apple's board of directors.

In both cases it is clear that Jobs put his full trust and confidence in his fellow corporate leaders as colleagues and friends. I doubt he even remotely considered that they would go on to become his fiercest market rivals. But in both cases these other CEOs with their privileged access to Jobs' vision, turned right around and used their own company's corporate muscle to develop clone-like products and aggressively drive them into the market head-to-head with the Apple original products - to Apple's eventual cost.

Today, Windows still has the lion's share (pun intended) of the PC market while Android has the biggest slice of the smartphone ice cream cone.

Can you blame Jobs?

The Google CEO sat on Apple's board while Google developed a competing OS that it then gave away to Apple's competitors. Treachery!

Who could blame him. He honestly felt as though the idea was taken directly from iOS and that he had been betrayed, yet again, in the same way he was back in the day by Microsoft. Whether or not it actually played out that way is only for me and you to speculate, but if that's how he saw it go down I'd be furious in his position. To be taken advantage of once, alright. To be taken advantage of twice, thinking you'd done it right this time, boy would that be a hard pill to swallow.

Yep, pretty obvious that Android is a direct rip-off.

You guys might wanna check your tenses there. Steve Jobs doesn't "dislike" anything right now.

Well duh, they copied iPhoneOS/iOS play for play when it was released! Who wouldn't get pissed at that?