Gates loves the mac [Archive]

dracoleb

Oct 28, 2003, 04:03 PM

Check out this old Mac ad. Even Gates loves the Mac
20 page mac ad (http://toastdesign.com/apple1984ad/p10.html)

question fear

Oct 28, 2003, 04:11 PM

let this be a lesson to you, kids...if you're planning on starting a multinational monopoly, DO NOT POSE FOR PICTURES OR ALLOW DIRECT QUOTES. This will not only serve to create a mystique around you, it will also prevent certain.."mistaken quotes" from surfacing years later. Also, you'd never have to worry about looking as 80's prep as those guys in the picture...tsk tsk.
--Carly

solvs

Oct 28, 2003, 04:25 PM

Oldie... but a goodie! ;)

tpjunkie

Oct 28, 2003, 05:45 PM

That picture is worth more than a thousand words.

G5orbust

Oct 28, 2003, 06:34 PM

Bill looks like he is 15 in that picture.

By the way, Apple should use that quote in all of its ads, just to spite Bill.

dracoleb

Oct 28, 2003, 06:46 PM

There, check out my new sig

Stike

Oct 28, 2003, 07:45 PM

There is also a rumor that Bill said something to his developers when he saw Windows 1.0...
"No, this is not it. I want it to be like the Macintosh. I want the Macintosh on Windows!"

Phil Of Mac

Oct 28, 2003, 07:50 PM

It's kind of fun to see Bill Gates wearing a "Macintosh" polo shirt and acting like just another Mac software developer.

tpjunkie

Oct 29, 2003, 08:35 AM

well thats pretty much what he was until windows took off. I mean, DOS wasn't even his idea.

FightTheFuture

Oct 29, 2003, 08:49 AM

"To create a new standard takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and captures people's imaginations. Macintosh meets that standard"- Bill Gates

i have a quicktime clip i got off the net buried somewhere of him saying this at a developers conference of some sort. i'll post it if i can dig it up.