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To: Cogito who wrote (181295)	2/4/2012 4:33:43 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543302

When Jobs came back to Apple after his exile, the company was basically failing, so you can't fault him on that. Sort of like our parents and the depression. On the other hand, there's this: "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. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." news.cnet.com I'm not quite sure how Jobs reconciled this with previous utterance such as \|"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." and "Good artists copy; great artists steal" , but that's another one of those philosophical consistency things. And Android may have been heavily influence by the iPhone, but it wasn't stolen in any conventional sense of the word. Don't get me started on software patents, though. Anyway, I hope he didn't actually spend his last dying breath on it, that would be truly sad.