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Bill Gates Says His Preference for Android Over iPhone is Due to Pre-Installed Software
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Bloat comes on iOS too. On my iPad Air 4th Gen I have Garage Band, Stocks, Keynotes, Numbers, Pages, Home & Measure--pre installed bloat that I have no use for.
On my Galaxy S21 Ultra I have just one bloat, Spotify.
No you have two bloats. Spotify and the Android OS.
I hear casting is underway for the next Star Wars movie and the role of the evil emperor is still open.
Hey, if the shoe fits....
Hey, if the shoe fits....
Hardly surprising.
Microsoft has lost the mobile wars to android and iOS. This means that for all their power, they are but a software company developing apps for someone else’s platform.
Which means that they are subject to the rules and regulations of another company. And that’s what rankles Bill Gates. That another company like Apple gets to call the shots as to what is and isn’t allowed on their platform.
What use is a smart assistant like Cortana that can’t be made default on hundreds of millions of iOS devices around the world? What use is a game streaming service that isn’t allowed on iOS? What use is a Microsoft-branded wearable that will never integrate with iPhones as deeply as the Apple Watch?
It’s clear who holds all the power in this new relationship.
Microsoft has lost the mobile wars to android and iOS. This means that for all their power, they are but a software company developing apps for someone else’s platform.
Which means that they are subject to the rules and regulations of another company. And that’s what rankles Bill Gates. That another company like Apple gets to call the shots as to what is and isn’t allowed on their platform.
What use is a smart assistant like Cortana that can’t be made default on hundreds of millions of iOS devices around the world? What use is a game streaming service that isn’t allowed on iOS? What use is a Microsoft-branded wearable that will never integrate with iPhones as deeply as the Apple Watch?
It’s clear who holds all the power in this new relationship.
They are probably the third most valuable company in the world, they own the enterprise and have the second biggest cloud computing platform.
They aren't really a consumer company, I doubt they care that much about Apple Watches.
I think most people are just stuck in their ways now, similar to Mac and Windows. I could never use Android, I tired a few times but was so used to iOS I've given up now. I'm happy where I am.
Ain’t gonna listen to a 97 years old ancient’s advice and preference for current technologies.
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I feel that Microsoft not being a consumer company was not of their own choice. They certainly tried with the windows phone. A digital assistant cortana makes more sense on smartphones and wearables than on PCs. Moving forward, wearables is shaping up to be the next big computing platform and you will have a hard time gaining traction if you don’t have a sizeable smartphone install base to market to.
Microsoft’s dominance in desktop computing is unparalleled, and this is probably as far as they go. In contrast, with Apple, the sky’s the limit thanks to the iPhone.
One’s the present, the other’s the future.
Pretty sad watching people disparage a man who helped start the home computing and phone-as-computer revolutions and donated billions of dollars to charity, all because they don't like his choice of phone.
Bill Gates says this ? "Now with pre-installed malware"
I guess people do like that stuff.
I guess people do like that stuff.
I’m surprised he didn’t mention Microsoft Launcher. I’ve been using it for years on my Galaxy Notes. Love the home screen, which automatically arranges your most-used apps. Also love the alphabetical index of apps.
I’m pretty sure most people’s negative thoughts/comments about bill gates are ultimately unrelated to his personal choice of phone and more related to his decades of abusive business practices.
His philanthropy is just another reminder of how much money he made via those business practices.
Why do people even care what another person's phone OS preference is? Just strikes me as strange and even weirder that it's a MacRumors headline story. What next so an so person uses a macOS vice ChromeOS or WindowsOS?
Were people expecting him to say, "I prefer WindowOS phone".
Seems pretty shallow if you care and focus what other people use, what next some XYZ celeb says their like XYZ product and you run out to purchase it. What happened to thinking for yourself and having personal preference and choice?
Like him or dislike him, I still don't understand what his phone preference and OS has anything to do with it. Would people dislike him less or like him more if he said, "I like iOS and iPhone".