Bill or Steve?
- Apple, Microsoft -
IT was a rare moment: Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, the two icons of the personal computing age, together on stage — something that hasn’t happened in a long time.
Of course it was all over the news, and it’s interesting to read that the two longtime rivals acted more like friends as they traded quips and reminisced about the good old days of computing.
Bill and Steve almost seem tailor-made as rivals in an epic tale for the digital age. The two of them are so different that they’re almost caricatures — like comic book characters destined to oppose each other. Bill and Microsoft are almost universally bashed, while Steve and Apple are, well, the apple of a lot of people’s eyes. Bill’s a geek. Steve’s cool. Bill is coldly logical. Steve’s the mystical dude with the “reality distortion field.”
