Steve Jobs authorized biography by Walter Isaacson is officially available today in bookstores as well as in digital form. Isaacson was granted unprecedented access to Jobs, which allowed for some never-before-revealed aspects and attitudes of the late Apple founder.

It would make sense for Steve Jobs to look at Android with some contempt. After all, Android has surpassed iOS long ago in terms of mobile OS adoption. What’s a bit startling, though, is just how much Jobs hated Android. Jobs felt that HTC’s implementation of Android, in particular, was “grand theft” of iOS.

“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. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

Apple sued HTC over its use of Android. Jobs even told Google’s then-CEO Eric Schmidt that he wasn’t interested in settling the lawsuit.

“I don’t want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won’t want it. I’ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want,” Jobs told Schmidt.