The Great Silicon Valley betrayal: ANTHONY PERKINS AND THE CRYPTONITE WEEKLY RAP

MAY 18

Google has a long history as a me-too innovator. Steve Jobs and then Google Chief and Apple Board member (2006 to 2009) Eric Schmidt had a bitter falling out over Google's creation of its Android OS, which Mr. Jobs felt was a 'grand theft of iPhone's innovations.' 

"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. 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."

—Steve Jobs described his coffee conversation with Eric Schmidt to biographer Walter Isaacson after the 'deep betrayal' he felt.