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Jobs and Gates Chat Amicably

Posted by kdawson on from the sittin'-in-a-tree dept.

circletimessquare writes "As noted, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs met at the D conference yesterday. AllThingsD has video of the entire convivial and historic meeting — check the highlights clip. When a reporter asked if their rivalry was overblown, Jobs offered up this joke: 'We've kept our marriage secret for over a decade' — to an apparently flummoxed Gates. Other tidbits: 'His mother loves him!' said Gates about PC Guy in the famous series of commercials. 'And we love them because they're all customers!' said Jobs about Microsoft employees working on Zune who use the iPod. Read more about the event, which also covered a lot of serious ground, such as Apple's iPhone, at CNN and the Times Online."

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  1. Re:Old Buddies by schiefaw · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, if you call a $150 million investment in a company that has $4 billion in cash reserves "bailing out". I would consider it a darn good investment considering what the stock has done since then.

    --
    Angleyne: You can't bend that girder - it's unbendable! Bender: Well I don't know anything about lifting, so that ju
  2. Re:What did you expect? by CaffeineAddict2001 · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products."

    "I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check...if so, then Microsoft would have great products."

    "I wish him [Bill Gates] the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."

    Nothing petty and childish about Steve Jobs. No Siree.

  3. Re:Intro song by pitdingo · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Love Will Find a Way" by the band: "Yes", album: "Big Generator"

  4. Re:They don't hate each other by vought · · Score: 3, Informative

    David Boies found the evidence that the suit was settled during his work on the antitrust suit for the government.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/10/29/microsoft_ paid_apple_150m/

  5. Jobs apologizes. Gates admits he has no taste. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    From Andy Hertzfield appearance on NerdTV:

    Bob: You were in Triumph of the Nerds and did a beautiful job I thought. And of course Steve Jobs was in the show, too. You have a story about that?

    Andy: Yeah. Steve came over to my house shortly after it aired in 1996. I asked him what he thought of the documentary. He said he thought it was really good, but when he watched it on TV he thought his comment about Bill Gates having no taste might have been a little too harsh. So he called Bill Gates to apologize.

    I don't know how you call Bill Gates, but if you are Steve Jobs you get right through. He said, "Bill I'm calling to apologize. I saw the documentary and I said that you had no taste. Well I shouldn't have said that publicly. It's true, but I shouldn't have said it publicly."

    And Bill Gates replied, "I'm glad you called to apologize, Steve, because I thought that was really an inappropriate thing to say."

    Steve couldn't help himself, he said, "You know it's true, it's true you have no taste."

    And Bill Gates responded to him, saying "Steve, I may have no taste, but that doesn't mean my entire company has no taste."

    So Bill admitted he had no taste, but thought it was an unfair slur to say that MICROSOFT had no taste.


    Video clip:

    http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/player/?show=00 1&clip=juicy&ext=mp4