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June 17, 2012 10:03 pm EDT

Switched On: Going Thermonuclear

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

DNP Switched On Going Thermonuclear

At the debut of the T-Mobile G1, Switched On identified the central conflict that would quickly tear apart the goodwill between Apple and Google. In fact, in Steve Jobs' authorized biography, Walter Isaacson quotes the late Apple CEO on Android, noting that the he was prepared to "go thermonuclear war" on the iOS competitor. Indeed, the first WWDC since Jobs' death was filled with enough anti-Google swipes to smudge every iPhone screen in Moscone West. But the verbal lashings were nothing compared to the beating back that Google and Android took in relation to iOS 6 feature announcements.

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Switched On: Going Thermonuclear originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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