It's possible that Steve Jobs would have gone that way. But it is also just as likely that he would have told every government and regulator that wanted to "force" him to do something he thought was not in Apple's interest to go f themselves, I mean literally call a press conference and tell them to F OFF.
He certainly mellowed with age, but remember, this is a guy who lived in his own reality, he denied his daughter was his, but then named a computer after her. Not really predictable behavior.
He is also the guy who was happily going to "... 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...". That is until some level heads (Tim Cook amongst them) convinced him not too. He was always open to scorched earth methods if he thought he was wronged somehow.
SoldOnApple, I'm suggesting that you believe you know what Steve would have done in this situation. But it is mind boggling that so many people seem so confident about what Steve would do today, when his closest friends seem to concede that it was often difficult to know what he was gonna do in any situation.
It would certainly be entertaining to see what Apple would be today under his helm. I don't have a problem with Tim Cook at all. But he does seem to be much more polite and bottom line focused than Steve (on most days).