In Their Own Words: What Steve Jobs And Bill Gates REALLY Thought About Each Other
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There's no relationship in history like that of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
As partners and rivals, they built the personal computing industry with two totally different styles.
Jobs was a working-class kid from California who believed in tight control over all products, and put a premium on design.
Bill Gates was an upper class kid from Washington who believed in open products, and didn't worry too much about great design.
"Each one thought he was smarter than the other one, but Steve generally treated Bill as someone who was slightly inferior, especially in matters of taste and style," said early Macintosh employee Andy Hertzfield in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs bio. He added, "Bill looked down on Steve because he couldn’t actually program."
That's a good snapshot of the relationship, but we've combed through Isaacson's book to get a deeper sense of what the men thought of each other.
Gates: Steve Jobs was "fundamentally odd," an
The saga of the strange love-hate relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs never quite got along.
Over the course of plus years, the two went from cautious allies to bitter rivals to something almost approaching friends — sometimes, they were all three at the same time.
It seems unlikely that Apple would be where it is today without Microsoft, or Microsoft without Apple.
Here's the history of the bizarre relationship between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, as told by the Walter Isaacson biography of Jobs and other sources.
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs weren't always enemies — Microsoft made software early on for the mega-popular Apple II PC, and Gates would routinely fly down to Cupertino to see what Apple was working on.
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In the early '80s, Jobs flew up to Washington to sell Gates on the possibility of making Microsoft software for the Apple Macintosh computer, with its revolutionary graphical user interface.
Gates wasn't particularly impressed with what he saw as a limited platform — or Jobs' attitude. “It was kind of a weird seduction visit where Steve was say
A history of the feud between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, whose love-hate relationship spurred the success of Microsoft and Apple
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Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs never quite saw eye-to-eye.
They went from cautious allies to bitter rivals to something almost approaching friends — sometimes, they were all three at the same time.
It seems unlikely that Apple would be where it is today without Microsoft, or Microsoft without Apple.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were alternately allies and enemies throughout their tenures at the helm of Apple and Microsoft.
They'd gone back and forth complimenting and criticizing each other and each other's companies. Still, the successes of their companies were undeniably intertwined.
Here's a look at Jobs' and Gates' love-hate relationship over the years:
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs weren't always enemies.
Microsoft made software early on for the mega-popular Apple II PC, and Gates would routinely fly down to Cupertino, California, to see what Apple w
The Truth About Bill Gates' And Steve Jobs' Relationship
So, what should you know about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs' relationship? The tech magnates started out as pals and, in a way, collaborators. According to Business Insider, Gates' company Microsoft helped craft software for Jobs to use on one of his most popular computers, the Apple II PC, which was released in According to Ars Technica, Jobs and Steve Wozniak only sold units of the Apple I motherboard, so they needed a software boost. Which Gates (though Microsoft had only been founded two years prior) possessed. They helped each other, and Gates, per BI, once "quipped that he had more people working on the Mac than Jobs did."
But things soon went sour, and in the '80s, their meetings became more contentious. "It was kind of a weird seduction visit," Gates said on one rendezvous, per Fortune. "Where Steve was saying we don't really need you and we're doing this great thing, and it's under the cover. He's in his Steve Jobs sales mode."
Things finally came to a head after Gates released Windows in Jobs accused Gates of plagiarizing the idea, to which Gates said, per Walter Isaacson's book, "Well, Steve, I think there's mor
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