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When Jobs said he would "destroy" Android, he meant to do it using software patents. Apple continually amasses patents, numbering in the thousands, simply so that it can threaten other developers with lawsuits if they create something vaguely similar to an Apple program, even by accident.
Though Tim Cook is now CEO of Apple, the company's aggressive use of software patents hasn't changed. Apple remains hostile to other developers, using patents to threaten those that try to write programs that interact with its products or draw inspiration from them. (You can read more about this hostility on our blog ).