Steve Jobs’s biography is out on Monday. And a number of deliciously confrontational quotes from Apple’s late leader are causing a stir in the run up to its release. Yet while Jobs’s distaste for Android is laid bare, there’s a fascinating hint about new features which could put iCloud right up against Google Docs. Read on for all the details.
According to Jobs’s biographer Walter Isaacson, Apple’s former CEO swore at the mention of Google Docs, lumping the cloud-based office service into a rage-fuelled rant about Android. Jobs said that he wanted to “destroy” Android, before meeting Google’s Eric Schmidt to discuss Apple’s distaste for apparent “grand theft” of its ideas.
So, why was Steve Jobs so sickened by Google Docs? iWork.com hardly got off the ground before it was co-opted into iCloud, and online document editing is still beyond Apple’s service. Did he believe that Google Docs and its suite of apps was stolen from Cupertino?
More interestingly, is Apple about to launch beefed-up document editing for iCloud and take on Google Docs properly? Jobs can’t tell us now, but his all-consuming passion to take down Google suggests something is in the works.
Via AP
