Although he hated Android with all his being, Steve Jobs he thought at some point to launch an iTunes application for the Google operating system. The application would have given the users of the Android operating system the opportunity to buy music directly from the Apple store, but also to synchronize it very easily with Windows/Mac OS X using the dedicated program of the company from Cupertino. The move would have been similar to the one by which Apple launched iTunes for Windows, but in this case Apple had a lot to gain by selling more iPods.
We thought about whether we should do a music client for Android. We put iTunes on Windows in order to sell more iPods. But I don't see an advantage of putting our own music app on Android, except to make Android users happy. And I don't want to make Android users happy.
In the case of Android OS, the launch of the iTunes application would have made the users of that operating system happy, and Steve Jobs did not want this. An iTunes application for Android would probably have increased Apple's sales in the multimedia department, but it would not have convinced the owners of these terminals to purchase an iPod/iPod Touch or an iPhone since they had the application for music directly in their own terminal. If Jobs were still alive, then he would certainly have discovered a method to monetize Android, but now this probably won't happen.
