4. Jobs Plots To 'Destroy' Android

Walter Isaacson released his biography of Steve Jobs in October 2011, just a few weeks after the late Apple CEO passed away. Jobs, in his interviews with Isaacson, said Android was a rip-off of the iPhone and swore passionately to make that point clear in court.

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

3. Apple Nixes Google Maps

When the iPhone first launched in 2007, it came pre-loaded with Google Search, Google Maps and YouTube.

But, in June 2012, Apple revealed that iOS 6, its next-generation operating system for the iPhone and iPad, will be the first ever to not have a native app for Google Maps. Instead it will host its own maps application on which it is working.

Some believe that Apple had this planned as early as in 2009, when it quietly acquired mapping company Placebase.