Gates v. Jobs, continued...

FJCsar writes "The New York Times has an interesting story about the continuing battle between Microsoft's Windows Media Player and Apple's iTunes from the perspectives of both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs."

Comments

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

[Genady]

Yes. I am actually a Fan, though not becuase of his work in computers. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is, if not one of the largest, then one of the deepest pocketed philanthropic foundations around. They do good things with the money that Bill has made over the years. You can't say the same of teh Steve, and while I'm a Mac user, and an iTunes Music Store purchaser, and generally despise Microsoft, my opinion of Bill is tempered by his good works outside of the computer industry.

While you might think evil Windows when you hear the name Bill Gates, I think of helping people in Africa.

1000 songs in 30 days?

[inkswamp]

I love this bit from the article:

"If you sit down next to me and say you have 1,000 songs and you pay $10 a month, how cool will I feel to say I paid $1,000 for 1,000 songs," asked Jonathan Sasse, the president of iRiver America, a subsidiary of ReignCom, a Korean maker of portable players that has endorsed Microsoft's format for subscription services.

Mr. Sasse... nobody buys a 1000 songs a month. Your analogy is stupid. How cool is that?

Subscription services will have a place in the future of music, but most of us, I'm guessing, don't have the time to listen to 1000 new songs a month. I think most people are just like me: you get one or two songs or a band or album stuck in your head and you put that into heavy rotation for a while.

Jesus, I know nothing about business, have no sense of this stuff, but I find it hard to believe that these guys can actually be this self-deluded.