Bill Gates Downplays Google & Apple at CES
Before his Keynote Speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bill Gates sat down with Rueters for an interview which touched upon Microsoft competition, especially Google. In the interview, Bill told Rueters that Google & Apple are getting their current buzz due to media coverage, since Google are “media darlings.”
“People tend to get over focused on one of our competitors. We’ve always seen that,” said Gates, comparing the potential threat of Google’s search capabilities to past competitors such as Internet browser Netscape and Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java programming language.
“I’m never going to change the press’ view about what the cool company to write about is. That’s Google number 1 and Apple number 2. Too bad for Nokia, Sony and all those others.”
Asked about if Google was Microsoft’s biggest threat : “The biggest company in the computer industry by far is IBM. They have the four times the employees that I have, way more revenues than I have. IBM has always been our biggest competitor. The press just doesn’t like to write about IBM,” said Gates.”
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Yossi Goldlust on Jan 8, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Bill Gates has a point :-). IBM does have a lot more resources than anybody else and Google and Apple are media darlings. But Google and Apple, so far @ least, have earned the right to be media darlings by finding ways to bring together existing technologies in creative ways that result in great products.
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