"Steve Jobs' official biography, authored by Walter Isaacson, details some of his feelings on Microsoft and Bill Gates. Jobs mocked Microsoft's lack of humanity and claimed that Microsoft 'just didn't get' the original Mac enough to copy it properly," Tom Warren reports for WinRumors. "Jobs also thought Bill Gates was 'unimaginative and has never invented anything' …[and] claimed that Gates 'just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."
"Gates responded to Jobs' criticisms during an interview with ABC News on Sunday. Asked about Jobs' comments, Gates praised Jobs. 'Steve Jobs did a fantastic job," Gates told ABC News during a video taped interview," Warren reports. "During the interview, see below, Gates described his relationship with Jobs over their 30 year history: 'When you think about why is the world better today, the Internet, the personal computer, the phone, the way you can deal with information is just so phenomenal. Over the course of the 30 years we worked together, you know, he said a lot of very nice things about me and he said a lot of tough things. I, you know, respect Steve, we got to work together. We spurred each other on, even as competitors. None of that bothers me at all.'"
Warren reports, "Gates also [said], 'He faced, several times at Apple, the fact that their products were so premium priced that they literally might not stay in the marketplace. So the fact that we were succeeding with high volume products, you know, including a range of prices, because of the way we worked with multiple companies, it's tough.' Gates added that Jobs' feelings were reasonable. 'And so the fact that … at various times, he felt beleaguered, he felt like he was the good guy and we were the bad guys, you know, very understandable. [I respect Steve. We got to work together. We spurred each other on, even as competitors. None of that bothers me at all.]'"
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MacDailyNews Take: At least the old thief is smart enough to not speak ill of the dead. It most certainly is understandable why Jobs felt that Apple were the good guys and Microsoft were the bad guys; truth is funny like that.
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