New book says Steve Jobs saw the iPad as Android repellant

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/lIGksbZnqxkQrsh89x1GLw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/steve-jobs-ipad.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/book-says-steve-jobs-saw-ipad-android-repellant-151013080.html)Apple’s iPhone may have forever changed the world of mobile communications but by 2009 Apple was starting to face some serious competition in the smartphone market from Google’s free-to-use Android operating system. According to a new book written by Fred Vogelstein that’s been excerpted by Wired, Jobs saw the dangers that Google’s platform presented and came up with a bold plan to hold off the Android barbarians that were banging on Apple’s gate. In short, he decided that the best way to maintain iOS’s relevance was to make the iPad. “Maybe more people in the world would own Android phones than iPhones,” Vogelstein explains. “But the people who owned iPhones would also own iPads, iPod Touches, and a slew of



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