All Apple Products Forbidden in Bill Gates' Family
All Apples are bad Apples, according to the Gates family.
Even though Bill Gates is no longer the CEO of Microsoft, he and his family are still attached to the legacy of products that he helped bring to the market are the company that he founded.
One of Bill's new focuses is with his wife in work on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The New York Times had a chance to briefly talk with Melinda Gates, and one of the topics she was asked about was whether or not Apple products exist inside the Gates' household. In a word, the answer is a stern "No." Here's the entire exchange:
Do you own an iPod, which is made by Apple?
No, I have a Zune.
What if one of your children says, “Mom, I have to have an iPod?”
I have gotten that argument — “You may have a Zune.”
Do you have an iPad?
Of course not.
Is it true that Bill works on an Apple laptop?
False. Nothing crosses the threshold of our doorstep.
Isn’t there room in this world for both Apple and Microsoft?
Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh. Go talk to Bill.
We don't expect there to be any Windows PC products inside Steve Jobs' home, so this isn't all that surprising.
products inside Steve Jobs' home, so this isn't all that surprising."
Then why is this news?
products inside Steve Jobs' home, so this isn't all that surprising."
Then why is this news?
Agreed. What was the point of this article?
Also, why is the NYT interviewing Melinda Gates about Apple products? They ought to be focusing on all the work the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation does to help solve common problems plaguing humanity, like Malaria and Diabetes. Instead of focusing on the inane we ought to be talking about the extraordinary!
kind of disappointing.
In summary, lawsuit.
Considering how often Microsoft finds itself trying to copy Apple, you'd think the higher ups would have loads of Apple stuff. Maybe that's why they're not too successful at it most of the time.
They just better hope Jobs doesn't introduce a trendy game machine (kind of makes you wonder why he hasn't, yet). Microsoft will have to leave that market too, although their RRoD certainly is very happening and hip.
This is an interview with the missus, if you didn't bother to read. Either that or you're just inferring more than you should be doing out of this article.
Jobs uses Windows 7!
That would be a bummer.