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Bill Gates on Apple, the iPad, and Steve Jobs - “We enjoyed sparring with each other”
Bill Gates and his father recently sat down for an interview with CNN’s Larry King, where the trio touched upon a number of topics. When asked if he was jealous of Apple’s recent success, Gates responded: No, Apple got started about 3 years after Microsoft and they’ve had some huge ups and downs.. Microsoft wrote more [...]
Continue reading...Rumor: Steve Jobs to appear at All Things D Conference in June
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Valleywag is reporting that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has tentatively agreed to take the stage at this year’s All Things D Conference scheduled to take place later this June. An appearance at D would not only speak to Jobs’ continuing physical vitality but also his willingness to grapple with some of the thorny new controversies surrounding [...]
Continue reading...Bill Gates on Steve Jobs circa 1998: “He knows he can’t win”
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Back in 1998, Bill Gates was comfortably ruling Microsoft’s empire while Apple was bleeding cash and meekly attempting to stay in business. Now, 12 years later, Bill Gates is retired and Steve Jobs has masterfully transformed Apple into one of the most innovative, successful, and profitable tech companies in the world. While some of the [...]
Continue reading...Remember those weird Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, they were weird on purpose
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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Back in September of 2008, Microsoft tried to hip up its image and combat Apple’s incessant PC bashing with a series of what were supposed to be comical ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and former CEO Bill Gates. The ads were quirky but were also confusing, and ultimately failed to impress, prompting Microsoft to quickly axe [...]
Continue reading...Bill Gates not impressed with Apple iPad, is he out of touch?
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has been a strong advocate for tablet computing for nearly a decade. Back in 2001, he famously told CNN: The tablet takes cutting-edge PC technology and makes it available whenever you want it…It’s a PC that is virtually without limits — and within five years I predict it will be the [...]
Continue reading...Video of Bill Gates praising Steve Jobs
Friday, November 13, 2009
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Here’s the video clip we mentioned earlier of Bill Gates praising Steve Jobs for his work in turning around Apple from the brink of irrelevancy and extinction.
Continue reading...How Steve Jobs is different from most other CEO’s
Friday, November 13, 2009
Last night, CNBC aired a program called “Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great”. Buffett and Gates are two of the wealthiest men in the world, and part of the program featured direct questions from the audience. At one point during the show, an audience member asked Gates for his thoughts on Steve Jobs and what [...]
Continue reading...Rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Friday, November 6, 2009
Check out this rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discussing god knows what at Jobs’ Palo Alto home in 1991. Both Jobs and Gates were 36 at the time the photo was taken. Jobs, at the time, had already been forced out of Apple years earlier and was currently working at NeXT, which [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs checks in as the 43rd richest American in 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Forbes recently released its list of the 400 wealthiest people in America for 2009, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs checked in at the 43rd spot with a net worth of approximately $5.1 billion. With that kind of cash, Jobs could buy 864,406 iPod Shuffles or 255 thousand iPhone 3GS’s for $199. Or, he could also [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates parodied in hilarious cartoon [Video]
Friday, August 7, 2009
This might very well be the funniest Mac related video ever done. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates battle it out in an “I’m a Mac” backdrop, with a hilarious cameo appearance by the Finder. Unbelievably well done, and well worth checking out.
Continue reading...12 years ago today, Apple and Microsoft made amends, sort of [Video]
Thursday, August 6, 2009
12 years ago today, Steve Jobs delivered a keynote in Boston where he announced a number of new initiatives with its ole’ rival Microsoft and an end to the legal battle over Apple’s allegations that Microsoft illegally copied the “look and feel” of the Mac OS. In the video below, a non-turtleneck clad Jobs announced that [...]
Continue reading...Bill Gates Facebook Page
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
via PC World Who knew that Bill Gates like himself some “Tool Academy.” I’m a little disappointed, though. I pegged him more as an “I Love Money” kinda reality fan. Anyways, check out the snarky message from good ole’ Steve Jobs. Click on the picture below to see the full version in all its glory.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
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