Apple and Microsoft
Whether you hate Apple and love Microsoft, or hate Microsoft and love Apple, or hate them both (I don’t think many people would love them both), you need to watch the joint interview of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that they did at the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference a few weeks ago.
Here are two guys that have such a history together. They have changed the world and the lives of Billions of people. I watched this last night and I found myself thinking back to when I got my first computer, a Franklin PC 8000. I remembered when the computer lab at Burley Jr. High was full of Apple IIe’s and my friend Nate and I were lucky enough to have the teacher (Mr. Waite) let us be the first students to use his PC that he brought in from home and stuck in the corner of the room. And when we used that PC to write our first computer program in GW-BASIC. (A game based on the Domino’s Pizza advertising campaign of Avoid the Noid). And when I saved all my money from my various summer jobs to buy the latest greatest 386 computer at the time. And then the time freshman year in college where everyone was talking about how cool it would be when the Pentium computers started shipping. And the time almost 2 years ago when I ‘converted’ to Mac and haven’t looked back since. And really about 1,000 memories that made me realize how intertwined my life and everything I do have become with technology and computers and software–and that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and their innovation, passion, and ideas are behind a lot of this intertwining.
Anyway, you can download the Podcast right to iTunes. You can also click on the icon of Steve and Bill on the All Things Digital home page.
Enjoy, it will bring back memories.
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