Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the touch and other popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an expletive-laced rant that Google’s actions amounted to “grand theft.”

“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.”

Jobs used an expletive to describe Android and Google Docs, Google’s Internet-based word processing program. In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn’t interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says.

“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.” The meeting, Isaacson wrote, resolved nothing.

Whenever I pick up or even see someone use an Android device, I cringe a little inside. Sachin has a great post on his experience using an Android device for a week - a feat I admit is pretty impressive.

I'm an Apple fan - not because I'm "brainwashed," a brand bigot, or because I haven't given other products a chance. I built PC's and before I switched to a MacBook Pro, was a diehard Blackberry user before switching to an iPhone, and have Google TV alongside my Apple TV.

Apple understands design, experience, and execution. That's what keeps me using their products. I realized it after years of building walls of being anti-Apple before I realized that people weren't drinking the kool-aid, people were seeing the difference in product design and experience.

Will I stay an Apple fan a couple years down the road? Who knows, but for now, after the remembrance of Steve Jobs in the wake of his passing, I do know that the gap between Apple's products and its competitors is wider than I previously thought.

Steve’s extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company,” said Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple’s Board. “Steve has made countless contributions to Apple’s success, and he has attracted and inspired Apple’s immensely creative employees and world class executive team. In his new role as Chairman of the Board, Steve will continue to serve Apple with his unique insights, creativity and inspiration.

I remember the dark days of trying hard not to become just another Apple "fan boy." That all changed after I got my first Mac, and needless to say, I never went back.

I'm glad Steve set the bar so high for other companies to try and duplicate. Because of Steve's vision, Apple has become synonymous with top-quality products, great customer service, and unmatched marketing.

The stunning design resembles a "spaceship;" it will be four stories and house 12,000.

"I think we do have a shot at building the best office building in the world," says Jobs, who also made a rare appearance earlier in the week at the Worldwide Developers Conference.

Every company should follow Apple's model: constantly innovate new products that people love. Now, they're in the plans of making the most innovative headquarters for their employees. Can't wait to see the completion of this building!