Anyone remember "Pirates of the Silicon Valley", in which a younger Steve Jobs mentored Bill Gates, and ended up the relationship angrily when he saw that Bill Gates was copying him off and making Windows? Now that scene repeats itself again, according to Steven Levy's just-released tell-all on Google, entitled "In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives."

   According to the book, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page werelooking for a new CEO, and decided on Apple's Steve Jobs. When Jobs declined, Google instead found Eric Schmidt, who would become a member of Apple's board of directors; and "When he (Jobs) turned down their offer, but because he saw the potential of Google he agreed to mentor Mr. Page and Mr. Brin, even sharing advisers".

   Like the famous scene from the movie when Steve sees a NEC PC running Windows, the relationship between the two companies was over as soon as Google unveiled the Android mobile operating system. Jobs felt that he was betrayed by Google, and that Android simply copied off the success of the iPhone and its iOS system.

   Jobs allegedly first saw features in Android like pinch-to-zoom while visiting Google's Mountain View, Calif., corporate headquarters. The meeting reportedly made Jobs "furious", disparaging at Google in a company meeting, dismissing Google's "don't be evil" mantra with an expletive, and saying that "Google wants to kill the iPhone.

   The new book also reveals that Jobs "somehow managed to keep the development of the iPad hidden" from Schmidt when he served on Apple's board. Jobs reportedly believed that the "best ideas from the iPhone had been stolen. Any studio up for making "Pirates of the Silicon Valley 2? Because this is too much like the end of the first, minus gigantic Bill Gates on a screen looming over Steve Jobs.



   I call a skinny bearded Patrick Dempsey as Steve Jobs, toss in Edward Norton and Ashton Kutcher as Brin and Page, get Trent Reznor to do the soundtrack and maybe you've got an Oscar™.