Google: Open versus ClosedA few days after he unveiled the iPad in January 2010, Jobs held a "town hall" meeting with employees at Apple's campus.Instead of exulting about their transformative new product, however,he went into a rant against Google for producing the rival Android operating system.Jobs was furious that Google had decided to compete with Apple in the phone business."We did not enter the search business," he said. "They entered the phone business.Make no mistake. They want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them."A few minutes later, after the meeting moved on to another topic, Jobs returned to his tirade to attack Google's famous values slogan."I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing. This 'Don't be evil' mantra, it's bullshit."Jobs felt personally betrayed.Google's CEO Eric Schmidt had been on the Apple board during the development of the iPhone and iPad,and Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had treated him as a mentor. He felt ripped off.Android's touchscreen interface was adopting more and more of the features -- multi-touch, swiping, a grid of app icons -- that Apple had created.
