Steve Jobs has expressed regret in the latter part of his life for delaying for nine months the surgery for pancreatic cancer, opting instead for experimental treatments of alternative medicine, according to the last biography of the former Apple executive, which will be on sale Monday, writes Financial Times. The first information that came up from the long-awaited book reveals Jobs’ aversion against the entry of Google on the mobile operating systems market, at one point saying that he would spend “everything Apple has” to stop what he considered a theft of ideas.
“I will destroy the Android because it is a stolen product. I’m Ready to start a nuclear war about it”, Jobs would have said, as per the biography quoted by the Associated Press. Information published by news agency but does not go farther to explain why Apple sued only manufacturers using Android phones and did not sue Google. According to the biography, it seems that Jobs dedicated however most of his energy for a major blow against former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt (starting January 2011 Schmidt is president of the board), which was previously a member of the Board of Directors at Apple. At a meeting between the two at a restaurant in Palo Alto, Jobs would have told Schmidt that he will not accept any agreement that involves financial compensation to stop the legal action, even for $5 billion.
The 630-page book is titled simply “Steve Jobs” and was written based on several interviews with former executive until close to the time of his death. The most impressive revelations were involving Jobs’ health situation, where it seems that the man considered a genius in innovation made the worst decision possible. Fortune magazine wrote in 2008 that Jobs has repeatedly postponed the operation for which he knew that it was a treatable form of cancer.
According to the biography that will be on the shelves next week, it seems that Jobs has repeatedly refused calls from his wife – who had managed to overcome a form of cancer, and by former Intel chief Andy Grove to remove the tumor, because he didn’t want his body to be “raped”. “He told me <<I would not want my body to be open, I don’t like it to be brutalized>>”, said Walter Isaacson, author of the biography. When he finally made up his mind, doctors discovered that the tumor has spread and Jobs regretted that he waited for so long.
In the first part of this year there was another biography of Steve Jobs published, written by Apple’s vice president, Jay Elliot: “Steve Jobs – iLeadership for a new generation”.