Steve Jobs, Bill Gates to hold joint interview
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are to take the stage on Wednesday of this week for a 75 minute joint interview. We all know that there is no love lost between these two but they must have some kind of mutual respect for one another, otherwise I don’t think this would be happening.
Maybe it’s as bad as mixing a base and an acid but who knows, things are bound to go more smoothly than that. It’s a well known fact that Bill Gates doesn’t like the Mac vs. PC Apple ads and if you haven’t heard it you can hear his reaction to those in an Advertising Age interview conducted by Bob Garfield.
Microsoft management is also annoyed that (presumably still) around 80% of their employees own iPods instead of the company’s own Zune Player. Maybe if the Zune wasn’t a piece of junk or tied in better with the software, it would be good but the fact is Zune software has a propensity for crashing, a lot. Ever see iTunes on a Mac crash? I didn’t think so. While iTunes does have its issues with Windows, especially Vista, it’s not nearly as horrible as the Zune software is. The Zune itself isn’t bad but the software ruins the experience.
Then of course, there is the case of the “iPod Amnesty Bin” that has appeared on the Microsoft campus. Most of us here at Blorge think it is a joke, at least, I think it’s a joke and the others seem to be a bit torn, I wouldn’t give up my iPod if they paid me.
We have two men who see very different ways of producing products and running a company and Apple retail stores offer a superior experience to that of big box retailers and stand alone PC retail stores have yet to take off as well as the Apple stores have.
This is slated as an interview but I think it’s going to turn into a debate between the two gentlemen and if it doesn’t become very heated, I will be surprised. Face it Microsoft, Apple products are for the most part, superior, admit that and move on.
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May 28th, 2007
Hey i read bill gates quotes daily at Bill Gates quotesHe is really a master
May 28th, 2007
“Face it Microsoft, Apple products are for the most part, superior, admit that and move on.”
If you have experience using all apple products (including OS X), you wouldn’t say this… each product has its own pros and cons. Apple is nothing to be amazed of but I’m not saying Microsoft great either.
May 28th, 2007
What’s wrong with OSX… what’s wrong with an iPod? What else does Apple make… okay the Apple TV kind of sucks…
But what’s wrong with OSX or an iPod? Nothing, in my opinion.
Okay, so the hardware can be kind of hard to deal with if you get a bad unit BUT on the whole, they are superior.
May 29th, 2007
you sir are a doofus. apple products are superior to MS? Apple computers are high end luxury machines. its simply not fair to compare an apple store with a regular comp usa style computer store. its more in line with one of those sony stores in the high end malls. an apple computer cannot compare to a sony computer. and i think the two are the closest when it comes to luxury, design and ease of use. please apple fanboy, lets compare apples to apples, not apples to dirt nuts.
May 29th, 2007
Yes, they can be compared, I see no reason they can’t. I don’t care for Sony products, they had their chance, they failed, life moves on.
The Apple store where I live is always busy, there’s almost no one ever in the Sony store, which I find amusing.
May 31st, 2007
Apple is a cult that the rest of the world proves wrong over and over again.
Why? Because bad ideas have a way to die in the land of the rest of the world. At Apple, they just call the world stupid.
Now, go back and have fun on your BSD box. Apple’s OS doesn’t even exist anymore. You guys are unix people now and you don’t even know it.
June 1st, 2007
“You guys are unix people now and you don’t even know it.”
Ummmm…..Vista? Wouldn’t that make MS copycats of unix based OS? I guess Windows doesn’t exist anymore either. Oh and which is the “bad idea”? the ipod with 75% market share of which MS copied to make Zune?
So if Apple just has “bad ideas”, Microsoft just copies em.