I do remember Steve Jobs wanted "to go thermonuclear" on Android (mostly Samsung and Google), saying "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product."
Other motives, same behavior.
Other motives, same behavior.
Like, Steve Jobs making vague threats isn't really in the same league as what MS was getting up to in the 90s.
Apple sued for patent infringement and that was about the extent of it.
Suggesting that their behavior is at Microsoft’s level is naive.
You're massively understating the scope and scale of Apple's war on Android. Apple transfered patents to a NPE that sued Android vendors - possibly Google itself. Apple also spent billions on this war - Apple et al spent over $4B to outbid Google on Nortel patents, Google spent even more billions to buy Motorola and its patents, prior to that, Google had virtually no defensive parents.
> that was about the extent of it
Apple didn't only sue over patents they already owned: they went out of their way and bought billions worth of more patents to sue with, partnered with patent-trolls who also sued OEMs on their behalf. So we agree, but the breadth and depth of Apple's actions was remarkable - they didn't just sue, they went to great lengths to do so.
If you are absolutely committed to doing zero further analysis, then sure I can see why you would think that.