“"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, according to the book “Steve Jobs,” by Walter Isaacson. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

Jobs’ conviction seems to have been, and so far remains, the driving force behind Apple’s stubborn, persistent and expensive patent battles with Android handset makers, on multiple continents.

In the most recent ruling in one U.S. case this week, a by Motorola, and upheld Apple’s patent claims for touchscreen technology that interprets the user's touchscreen commands by recognizing swipes that are not straight lines. That may sound arcane, but at least that “Motorola will realistically be unable to avoid a finding of infringement and will have to come up with some really good invalidity arguments if it wants to avoid a disaster.”

“Disaster” fits more with Jobs’ vow of going thermonuclear on Android than with Page’s “differences,” however.

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