Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs isn't short on fascinating insights into Jobs' life, or choice words for some of his competitors, chief among them Bill Gates.
Jobs said of Gates that he was unimaginative, that he'd never invented anything, that he'd shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas. So how does Gates feel about that? "None of that bothers me at all," he told ABC News, as seen by CNET News. "Steve Jobs did a fantastic job."
In response Gates said, "Steve and I worked together. Creating the Mac we had more people on it, did the key software for it. So through the course of the 30 years we worked together he said a lot of nice things about me, and he said a lot of tough things."
He went on to say Microsoft's pricing strategy caused Jobs to be "beleaguered," and believe "he was the good guy, we were the bad guy. It's very understandable.
"I respect Steve, we got to work together, we spurred each other on, even as competitors. So none of that bothers me at all."
Gates previously said Jobs was "weirdly flawed as a human being." Jobs also said Gates would be "a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
Other revelations from Jobs' biography include how Jobs got away without having a number plate on his car, that he wanted to wage "thermonuclear war" on Android, he thought the outrage over the iPhone 4's antenna problem was a Google smear, and that the iPhone 5 was his last project.
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TroniX 1 November, 2011 08:29
If we were all the same - how boring would life be?
anonymous 1 November, 2011 09:03
My conclusion, steve jobs was the most egotistical **** who ever crawled across this earth.
anonymous 1 November, 2011 09:16
Don't forget hypocritical
anonymous 1 November, 2011 10:50
If I were Bill Gates, I wouldn't be too bothered either. After all, I'd be alive whilst Mr Jobs is most definitely dead.
Brandt Hardin 2 November, 2011 08:46
Jobs is gone but left his mark on every corner of wireless technology. It only leaves us asking who won the war between the two titans of modern computer technology? Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates / Apple vs. Microsoft– check out my rendering of an epic match-up of their cyborg selves on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/08/end-of-era-steve-jobs.html