Bill Gates Praises Steve Jobs: Jobs Saved Apple

[anamaniac]

Bill Gates is an amazing man.
I'd pay $35,000 for a tour of his house...

 

[juicyjones]

Bill Gates compliments Apple all the time. Their Apple software business is one of their most reliable and profitable. It's the *rest* of the world that thinks that Bill Gates hates Apple. This is just another press piece that pretends that he never says anything nice because you have never gone out to hear Bill Gates actually speak first-hand. You never hear him say a bad word about them. In fact it's very telling that practically every time Bill Gates speaks in public about Microsoft he mentions two companies, Google and Apple.

 

[randomizer]

The same thing happens in politics. Politicians shake hands and have a laugh but once they step into their communal "office" the fun and games end and the bickering starts. It's called keeping your personal life and your business life separate, and it's a good thing.

 

[cookoy]

Bill is himself an inspiration to countless others, maybe even more than Steve Jobs. Humble and charitable. You don't learn these in Harvard.

 

[Manos]

[citation][nom]greenbuck[/nom]That makes Bill a good man for giving a deserve praise, even to a competitor. I bet Steve can't say anything like that to Bill. He's ego can't say it.[/citation]

He shows respect with Adds saying how useless Windows are. How funny. So what else can you do with your Os X other than iChat and 3D applications? Oh! WoW and Quake for gaming that is.

 

[brummy21]

MS & BG have always been generous about Apple's achievements, such a shame that Steve Jobs has too much ego to return the compliment. Wasn't it SJ who tried to sue MS for allegedly stealing "his" (SJ's) invention of the mouse driven GUI, when the real truth is that the mouse driven GUI was invented by Xerox and both Apple and MS have made great use of it.

Perhaps more people will now be able to see which is the truly great man.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]frozenlead[/nom]I wonder what the Intel CEO would say about AMD's CEO...[/citation]
Don't think it would work as well for those 2, they don't have widely known figureheads like Gates and Jobs. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are pretty much synonymous with MS and Apple, which is why an article like this works.

 

[Vermil]

[citation][nom]brummy21[/nom]Wasn't it SJ who tried to sue MS for allegedly stealing "his" (SJ's) invention of the mouse driven GUI, when the real truth is that the mouse driven GUI was invented by Xerox and both Apple and MS have made great use of it.[/citation]
I don't think so. SJ was kicked out of Apple pretty much immediately after he brought out the Mac and desktop publishing. He 'retook' Apple much later with Next. So everything that happened in between the original Mac and iPod + OSX is basically not Steve's doing. And what Apple claimed wasn't any invention. They tried to get copyright on "look and feel". That was a very important win for MS and all of us. We should salute MS for championing the freedom of ideas that time.
As for the content of the article, there's no surprise. BG has always had a very clear view of things. The 'paranoid' is Ballmer and the 'crook' was Alchin.

 

[Impulse Fire911]

why cant mac and pc's live together in a field of fluffy cotton candy and be happy wiht each other?

 

[puddleglum]

[citation][nom]impulse fire911[/nom]why cant mac and pc's live together in a field of fluffy cotton candy and be happy wiht each other?[/citation]
Because there are too many people out there who label you a fanatic if you don't use Windows on X86 for everything. It's sad folks can't accept some diversity. It's the "single crop" mentality that led to things like the Irish potato blight and resulting famine.

 

[ano]

am i the only one that watched D5 conference?!

im not surprised at all. may be you should watch D5 conference!

Listen carefully to what Steve Job says in this video. If this "news" surprised you, this video will give you a heart attack!

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Z7eal4uXI

 

[ano]

[citation][nom]juicyjones[/nom]Bill Gates compliments Apple all the time. Their Apple software business is one of their most reliable and profitable. It's the *rest* of the world that thinks that Bill Gates hates Apple. This is just another press piece that pretends that he never says anything nice because you have never gone out to hear Bill Gates actually speak first-hand. You never hear him say a bad word about them. In fact it's very telling that practically every time Bill Gates speaks in public about Microsoft he mentions two companies, Google and Apple.[/citation]

exactly.
I really encourage everyone who reads this, watch D5 conference (11 parts, each ~10 minutes), then you will know Steve Jobs and Bill Gates better.

 

[ryman546]

An inaccurate quote has been floating around the Internet today about the success of Apple and whether Steve Jobs saved Apple from imminent doom. Unfortunately this came from a Microsoft employee who was not involved in any aspect of building Apple or has any room to speculate on how Steve Jobs may have saved Apple. I hate to say this about one of our own, but his comments were inaccurate and uninformed.

 

[g00ey]

It is quite obvious that Gates en Jobs are old buddies slappin' their backs.

 

[buwish]

When it comes down to it, I like to think that Bill Gates is a nice guy. Yes, the business world can be cut throat at times and there is no doubt that Jobs and Gates have had a rift or 2 over the years. But in the end, it's just business.

 

[Guest]

He's happy because if Apple had gone under, the antitrust regulators would have split the OS business from the Office business in a heartbeat. That whole "absolutely no competitors on the desktop" thing would be bad...

 

[tanderskey]

[citation][nom]ano[/nom]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Z7eal4uXI[/citation]

@ano
thanks for the link. i believe it shows two leaders of two very successful companies acting like the coaches (of rival teams of course) that they really are -- both incredibly fortunate and when discussing some points, acknowledge they are downright lucky.

i found a link from infoworld of a dozen or so products failures of apple -- see #8 for Copeland for a good laugh -- but which also point to how they learned from failures and were inspired (forced?) to come up with, perhaps, more relevant products:
http/www.infoworld.com/d/mac/rotten-apple-apples-12-biggest-failures-231

 

[hixbot]

but can apple save jobs?

sorry

 

[matt87_50]

unless Jobs has taken to curing 3rd world disease with lollies, they are not in competition any more, so of course he would say this. did you really think they hated each other?

 

[wildwell]

Tom's members could learn from Gates' comments.