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  • Jobs And Gates Founded Their Companies One Year Apart on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#1) Jobs And Gates Founded Their Companies One Year Apart

    Steve Jobs, raised by his adoptive parents (Paul and Clara) in California, showed an interest in electronics from a young age, tinkering with machines in the family's garage. He met Steve Wozniak while attending Homestead High School and the two became fast friends. Jobs attended Reed College in Oregon in 1972 but didn't stay long, moving to San Francisco after only six months at school. He took a job with Atari in 1974 and founded Apple with Wozniak in April 1976.

    Bill Gates was born in Seattle in 1955 and developed his interest in technology at Lakeside School. He enrolled at Harvard in 1973 but only studied there for two years. Gates was much more interested in coding and starting his own company than in academics. He developed a computer operating system and founded Microsoft in April 1975 with Paul Allen, a fellow Lakeside School alum.

     

  • The Two Met In The Late 1970s And Started To Work Together on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#2) The Two Met In The Late 1970s And Started To Work Together

    As Jobs and Wozniak developed their Apple computers, they were interested in using Gates' computer software. They met in the late 1970s and by the early 1980s, Jobs had reached out to Gates about creating programming language for Apple's personal computers. For his part, Gates had signed a deal with IBM, the dominant computer producer of the day.

    Jobs went to Seattle, where Gates was based, and they reached an agreement for Microsoft to develop software for Apple. Gates would put together a spreadsheet program (Excel), a word processing program (Word), and BASIC, an easy-to-use programming language. 

  • Gates Wasn't Impressed With Apple Or Jobs on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#3) Gates Wasn't Impressed With Apple Or Jobs

    With a deal in place, Gates went to Cupertino, California, where Apple was based, to demonstrate his software for Jobs and others. Gates didn't think that the Apple computer's capabilities - especially the graphics, which Jobs had played up to him - were all that inspired and he didn't like the way Steve Jobs treated him. Gates recalled that “It was kind of a weird seduction visit 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, but kind of the sales mode that also says, ‘I don’t need you, but I might let you be involved.’”

  • Gates's Relationship With IBM Made Jobs Think He Was Ripping Off Apple on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#4) Gates's Relationship With IBM Made Jobs Think He Was Ripping Off Apple

    While Apple was getting its Macintosh ready for the masses, Gates and Microsoft continued to work with IBM. This worried Jobs, who feared that Microsoft would steal the graphics interface from his Macintosh technology and use it for its own ends. He had a right to be worried and when he found out about Microsoft Windows in 1983, he unloaded on Gates. Gates was developing software for IBM that used graphics, much like Jobs envisioned and was working toward, which infuriated Jobs. Jobs called Gates to California and, in what Gates called a "command performance," shouted at him “You’re ripping us off!” he shouted. “I trusted you, and now you’re stealing from us!”

  • Thumb of Jobs Let The IBM Debacle Go So They Could Work Together On The Macintosh video

    (#5) Jobs Let The IBM Debacle Go So They Could Work Together On The Macintosh

    On the heels of Apple's successful Apple I, Apple II, and Apple IIe computers, they introduced the Apple Macintosh computer in 1984

    In addition to the famous Super Bowl ad for the product, Bill Gates appeared in promotional videos, too. It seemed like the two computing geniuses had made amends and were ready to tackle the tech world together.

     

     

  • Gates And Jobs Were Actually Ripping Off Xerox on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#6) Gates And Jobs Were Actually Ripping Off Xerox

    Gates wasn't shaken by Jobs's outbursts. In contrast, he told Jobs that they both knew the idea for a graphic interface was the brainchild of Xerox and that Apple had no proprietary claims to the idea. Gates said to Jobs “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”

    The truth to this claim has been the topic of speculation for years. Xerox had a computer called the Alto at the PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in 1979. Apple engineer toured the facility and saw a demonstration of the company's products, but Jobs only admitted that he had been inspired by the technology. 

  • After The Release Of Windows, The Jobs-Gates Relationship Fell Apart on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#7) After The Release Of Windows, The Jobs-Gates Relationship Fell Apart

    Once Windows was released in 1985, Jobs and Gates turned on each other. Jobs said "They just ripped us off completely, because Gates has no shame" and, in response, Gates claimed "If he believes that, he really has entered into one of his own reality distortion fields."

  • Jobs And Gates Took Stabs At Each Other's Personalities on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#8) Jobs And Gates Took Stabs At Each Other's Personalities

    Jobs, who spent time in India, dabbled in psychedelic drugs, and considered himself to be a pretty enlightened guy, criticized Gates for being too focused on business. They were very different people, that was clear, with Jobs calling Gates a "stick in the mud" and positing "he’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger." Gates just thought Jobs was odd and a "weirdly flawed as a human being."

  • Jobs Left Apple In 1985 While Microsoft Took Over The Computer World on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#9) Jobs Left Apple In 1985 While Microsoft Took Over The Computer World

    After a dispute - or several, the details aren't clear - with new Apple CEO John Sculley, Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985. Sculley claims he was never fired but, regardless, Jobs was out of the company and set up another business venture, NeXT, which was unsuccessful. He rebounded with Pixar in 1995. Meanwhile, Microsoft Windows 95 had taken over the software market and Gates became the richest man in the world. 

  • Jobs Was Highly Critical Of Microsoft Products on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#10) Jobs Was Highly Critical Of Microsoft Products

    Although not at Apple anymore, Jobs didn't  hold back in commenting upon Microsoft and their products. He accused Microsoft of producing "third-rate products," but went even further claiming that, "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products."

    Whether or not this was a criticism or a compliment isn't entirely clear, but Gates said Jobs "really never knew much about technology, but he had an amazing instinct for what works."

  • Gates Stepped In To Save Apple In 1996 on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#11) Gates Stepped In To Save Apple In 1996

    Apple was in financial trouble by the mid-1990s. The company asked Jobs to return to try to help the company and, after some inner strife, he went back in 1996. Jobs's return, however, was not enough. The following year, Jobs announced a new partnership with Gates and Microsoft, one that include a $150 million dollar investment by the latter. Jobs openly thanked Gates for saving Apple in 1997, saying that Gates "made the world a better place."

    When Gates made an appearance at the MacWorld event in 1997, however, the audience booed. 

  • Gates And Jobs Still Remained Critical Of Each Other's Work on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#12) Gates And Jobs Still Remained Critical Of Each Other's Work

    Even after Gates stepped down from Microsoft in 2000, Jobs was critical of Microsoft. In 2001, he called the company "almost irrelevant." Granted, by that time Apple had flooded the market with iTunes, iPods, iPhones, and other products that had taken the world by storm. Gates was actually pretty complimentary of Jobs and his innovations at Apple, however.

  • The Two Made Amends In The End on Random Details of Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Went From Friends To Bitter Enemies

    (#13) The Two Made Amends In The End

    In 2007, Jobs and Gates appeared on stage together at the All Things Digital conference and appeared quite jovial with one another.

    Steve Jobs had numerous bouts with cancer during the 2000s and too his third and final absence from Apple in 2011. In the last months of his life, Jobs spent time with Gates. According to Gates, "There was no peace to make. We were not at war. We made great products, and competition was always a positive thing. There was no [cause for] forgiveness.” Gates recalled his time with Jobs fondly, recalling that they had grown up together but always respected each other. 

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Is there anyone who doesn't know Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in the 21st century? Thanks to their great contributions to the development of technology and the Internet, so that you can read this article on this page now. Steve Jobs is the co-founder of Apple, Bill Gates founded Microsoft Corporation. They are considered to be iconic figures in the computer industry, both lead a team to create various electronic products that are popular all over the world, and profoundly change modern communications, entertainment, and lifestyles.

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