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RIP Steve Jobs (Apple co-founder)

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Steve Jobs Was Ready For "Thermonuclear War" With Google
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
Jobs used an expletive to describe Android and Google Docs, Google's Internet-based word processing program. In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says.
"I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want."
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Ironic, considering the major copying from Android/etc in the new iOS 5 notifications & other additions. The reality is they all steal from each other. Apple certainly made an epic & peerless phone when others were still producing clunkers, but most of its technology was seen elsewhere. Not that Apple didn't try to patent it anyway.

All the Best Leaks from the Steve Jobs Biography
He met his real father by accident, then feared him

Oddly, it turned out Steve's biological dad owned a restaurant he'd frequented many times. The two had greeted each other not even knowing they were related. But after the revelation, Jobs wanted nothing to do with him, out of pure paranoia:
Nevertheless Jobs still had no desire to see him. "I was a wealthy man by then, and I didn't trust him not to try to blackmail me or go to the press about it."
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He spent tons on cancer treatment

Although he spurned it at first, once he'd given in to mainstream medicine, Jobs spared no expense—he was one of the few people ever to have a personal DNA sequence compiled on their cancerous and normal DNA, the NYT says:
The DNA sequencing that Mr. Jobs ultimately went through was done by a collaboration of teams at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Harvard and the Broad Institute of MIT. The sequencing, Mr. Isaacson writes, allowed doctors to tailor drugs and target them to the defective molecular pathways.
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He won his wife back with a diamond ring

After Jobs met his soon-to-be wife, she moved out because of "maddening behavior." His solution? "The next month, Mr. Isaacson writes, he gave her a diamond engagement ring, and she moved back in. Eventually they married."
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He and Obama didn't get along HuffPo relays
Though his wife told him that Obama "was really psyched to meet with you," Jobs insisted on the personal invitation, and the standoff lasted for five days. When he finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed from a liberal into a conservative.
"You're headed for a one-term presidency," he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it difficult for them.


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Jobs went on to call for teachers' unions to be disbanded. Obama later invited Jobs to a Silicon Valley exec dinner party, but the two butted heads over the fare: Jobs said the menu was too "fancy," taking particular offense to a chocolate truffle desert. "But [Jobs] was overruled by the White House, which cited the president's fondness for cream pie."​
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FrancisSoyer;2017495; said:
Steve Jobs was long rumored to be an insufferable, egotistical [censored]stick behind the scenes. It's getting easier to believe the more I read.
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True, but have you ever seen a Steve Ballmer interview? At least Jobs wasn't an insufferable, egotistical fuckstick in plain sight. :wink2:
 
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