Steve Jobs Unleashed: What He REALLY Thought About All His Rivals (AAPL)

Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive who passed away earlier this month, was never one to mince words.

Jobs never held his opinion back, but new leaks published by The New York Times and elsewhere from his biography are even more caustic and aggressive than the Apple's chief visionary ever made apparent to the public.

Among his targets: Google's Eric Schmidt, musician John Mayer, the entire executive staff of Hewlett-Packard and others.

We've collected some of his best anecdotes:

Jobs hated Schmidt because of Android

Jobs was definitely not a fan of former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his smartphone operating system Android.

"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," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Bill Gates never invented anything

Jobs saved the worst for his competitors. Like Schmidt, Jobs thrashed former rival Bill Gates, saying he shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas.

"Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology," he said.

Larry Page was letting Google turn into Microsoft

Jobs took a shot at Google when he said it was "turning into Microsoft" and was making too many products of moderate, but not very high, quality.

Despite Jobs' rocky past with Schmidt, he made amends with new Google chief executive Larry Page and gave him advice for his new job.

"Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up," Jobs told Page. "It's now all over the map."

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See Also:

• New Book Suggests Jobs Rebelled His Whole Life And Threatened 'Thermonuclear War' Against Google
• Steve Jobs To Obama: You're A One-Term President
• Bill Gates Thought Steve Jobs Was 'Weirdly Flawed' And 'Fundamentally Odd'

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