Steve Jobs vowed to 'destroy' Android

[j.o.s.h.1408]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15400984

[Jay]

Now he is in heaven arguing with the dead symbian OS instead.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

LOL

[MaddAussie]

Now he is in heaven arguing with the dead symbian OS instead.

I'm laughing my socks off at that

[roachcoach]

Reminds me of that scene in men in black where the hick meets the alien and when asked to drop his rifle, "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers." The alien responds, "Your proposal is acceptable."

[Strings]

Now he is in heaven arguing with the dead symbian OS instead.

Brilliant.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Now he is in heaven arguing with the dead symbian OS instead.

Except Symbian answers: "I'm not dead yet!"

[sweey]

Now he is in heaven arguing with the dead symbian OS instead.

Excellent.

[badass]

"I'm a PC and I'm alive"

[aidanjt]

Except Symbian answers: "I'm not dead yet!"

With Stephen Elop standing behind it with dripping knife with a microsoft handle and a bloodied infant MeeGo at his feet.

[Behemoth]

I'd like to see him try with nothing more than a fluffy cloud and a harp !

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I'd like to see him try with nothing more than a fluffy iCloud(tm) and a harp(patent pending) !

Fixed for you!

[Behemoth]

Musn't forget the iWings too !

[Funkstar]

Of course, Steve knew all about stolen UI's after his visit to Xerox PARC in 1979.

[peterb]

Of course, Steve knew all about stolen UI's after his visit to Xerox PARC in 1979.

Slight oversimplification, perhaps the concept, but not the implementation - but then Microsoft did the same to Apple - Windows 95 was a shadow of Mac 84.

And Jobs had the vision to develop and take it to a commercial product, which Xerox failed to do. Similar story with MS-Dos (which was a loose copy in funcionalty of very basic Unix commands) and DR-DOS, who failed to capitalise on the IBM PC.

http://inventors.about.com/gi/o.htm?...com/horn1.html

Similar story for Microsft with Digital research and CP/M, DR-DOS, MS-DOS and PC-DOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I have seen some videos of the operation of the Xerox Alto which was released in the early to mid 1970s. It does seem to have influenced almost all the GUI overlays seen for desktop OSes in the early to mid 1980s.

BTW,Steve Jobs did say this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU