Jobs and Gates Chat Amicably

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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Old Buddies

[queenb**ch]

Let's see, Microsoft bails out Apple financially so that they can continue to rip off the innovations that they don't want to finance themselves. They've been through a lot together. Why wouldn't they chat in a friendly fashion, at least in public?

2 cents,

QueenB.

Tell us something we didn't know

[jmorris42]

I mean, like duh! Steve have been Bills's bitch now for over two decades, about time they made it legal and all. :)

Seriously, anyone here doesn't believe they sat down years ago and came to an agreement hasn't been paying attention. Bill owns the world but he permits Steve to continue to exist... under some fairly obvious limitations.

1) Bill can plunder Apple for ideas at will and Steve is permitted to whine like the bitch he is so long as nothing is really done about it. Lawsuits are OK, they are part of what keeps the DOJ convinced there is 'competition.'

2) Apple must NEVER sell 10% of pc units. As overpriced boutique items, briefly exceeding 10% of sales volume would be grudgingly acceptable perhaps... unless Dell cries.

Re:What did you expect?

[gordgekko]

Jobs, by all accounts, remains a bit of a twat. An exceptionally talented and successful twat, but a twat nonetheless.

Wow, I haven't typed the word "twat" in more than a decade and today I type it four times in one post.