按照施密特的说法，他和乔布斯是好朋友，施密特在苹果公司时，与乔布斯关系很友好。施密特在乔布斯去世后，接受纽约时报访问谈到，他与乔布斯，以及他们俩所在的公司，在android发布后他去了谷歌。
谷歌董事长埃里克施密特：“我离开（苹果）董事会后，他们还邀请我参加活动和私人晚宴。”
但根据的作者walter isaacson书中提到，“乔布斯痛恨android，当施密特跳槽到谷歌时，自己感到背叛。如有必要，我会用最后一分力气与苹果公司存在银行里的所有现金，来纠正这种错误！我要摧毁android，因为它是一个被盗的产品。”
听起来乔布斯对谷歌并未留情面，施密特担任谷歌ceo时恰逢android发布。乔布斯感受到背叛，认为谷歌推出的android并非首创。去年《纽约时报》曾报道，乔布斯在苹果all-hands会议期间暗讽谷歌“不作恶”的口号。
不容忽视的一件事是，乔布斯生气并未发表类似的关于谷歌的公开声明。当乔布斯授权给isaacson著书时，已知自己将不久于人世。在乔布斯传记中，作者还揭示了乔布斯还批评过很多人，包括比尔盖茨。从书中的段落一些能够看出，乔布斯生气时，也可以很“邪恶”。
一名福布斯杰出贡献作家eric jackson认为，施密特需要向公众道歉，因为之前他刻意塑造与乔布斯友好的形象在欺骗公众。
谷歌发言人拒绝对此事发表评论。
原文节选自《史蒂芬.乔布斯传》walter isaacson版本如下：
jobs felt personally betrayed. google’s ceo eric schmidt had been on the apple board during the development of the iphone and ipad, and google’s founders, larry page and sergey brin, had treated him as a mentor. he felt ripped off. android’s touchscreen interface was adopting more and more of the features—multi-touch, swiping, a grid of app icons—that apple had created.
jobs had tried to dissuade google from developing android. he had gone to google’s headquarters near palo alto in 2008 and gotten into a shouting match with page, brin, and the head of the android development team, andy rubin. (because schmidt was then on the apple board, he recused himself from discussions involving the iphone.) “i said we would, if we had good relations, guarantee google access to the iphone and guarantee it one or two icons on the home screen,” he recalled. but he also threatened that if google continued to develop android and used any iphone features, such as multi-touch, he would sue. at first google avoided copying certain features, but in january 2010 htc introduced an android phone that boasted multi-touch and many other aspects of the iphone’s look and feel. that was the context for jobs’s pronouncement that google’s “don’t be evil” slogan was “bullshit.”