Google X Labs: With Steve Jobs Gone, Could Google Take the Torch in Inventing ...
Steve Jobs was no fan of Google. But with Jobs gone, might the band be the best hope of picking up where he left off?
Despite Google’s famous corporate adage “Don’t Be Evil,” Steve Jobs clearly wasn’t buying the presence’s benevolence. As evidenced in his now-legendary threat to go to “thermonuclear war” and spend all of Apple’s cabbage killing the Android, which he insisted stole proprietary inventions of the iPhone, Jobs scorned Google as a mass of rip-off artists.
Actually, “evil” was an insult Jobs hurled at Google verbatim et literatim, as well as against Bill Gates. And Jobs’s war with Google over the Android closely resembles his bitter dispute with Gates over the development of Windows in the early ’90s. Walter Isaacson’s new book on Jobs details how infuriated Jobs was that Microsoft copied the thought for a user friendly graphical interface to replace the old-fashioned blinking cursor on a blank curtain, which had been Jobs’s great insight in developing Apple.
