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To: sylvester80 who wrote (11394)	10/20/2011 10:30:38 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

As copies of the eagerly awaited book leaked out ahead of its Monday sale date, reports of its contents also showed that Jobs was outraged by Google’s move into smartphone software, at one point saying he would spend everything Apple had to stop what he saw as theft of its ideas. “I’m going to destroy Android because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this,” Jobs says at one point in the book, according to the Associated Press. The AP account does not explain why Apple has sued only makers of phone handsets using Google’s Android software, and not Google itself. Jobs though saved most of his anger for the internet search company and then-chief executive Eric Schmidt, who had served on Apple’s board before Android was introduced. At one meeting between the two Silicon Valley chiefs at a Palo Alto restaurant, Jobs told Mr Schmidt that he wouldn’t take a cash settlement to drop litigation, not even $5bn, the AP said.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (11394)	10/21/2011 12:52:52 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

>>Yet U.S. Android market share has climbed and the difference with iPhone has WIDDEN. How do you explain that??? I know how.... you are WRONG!!!!<< "Widden?" Could you define that? Meanwhile, rnsmth is NOT wrong. What he said was "And the percentage of smartphones sold by Verizon that are Android has gone down." Now stay with me, here, Sylly. I'm sure you'll be able to follow this logic, because I'll break it down for you. Unless you are claiming that Verizon has sold absolutely no iPhones at all, their percentage of sales that are Android phones must have dropped. And as we know from Verizon's quarterly reports, they have actually sold millions of iPhones, and it is their number one seller. So rnsmth's statement is correct. By the way, to refresh your memory, Verizon's Q2 report said they activated 2.3 million iPhones, vs. 1.2 million 4G LTE devices. And as we know, while all 4G LTE phones sold by Verizon are Android phones, they also sell a number of 4G LTE mobile hotspots and USB modems, so not all of those 1.2 million 4G sales were Androids. Facts, Sylly. The numbers don't lie. PS: For this quarter, the ratios will be different, due to the slowdown in iPhones toward the end of the quarter. As we'll see tomorrow, when Verizon reports.