Steve Jobs sitting with Bill Gates discussing the future of computing in 1991.
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Whos mom’s house was it?
Wasn’t this around when Bill saved Apple from oblivion
Why doesn’t bill, the largest of the tech people, simply eat the others
Gates: I’m thinking an error code you can look up.
Jobs: See, I was thinking spinning beachball.
Steve was over there just stinking!
Note: Apple had forced Jobs out in 1985, and he wouldn’t return until 1997. Job’s idea of the “future of computing” was NeXT at this point.
“This room needs . . . windows”
Bill is gandalf and Steve is a hobbit, right? Isnt just my eyes?
Gates to Jobs at this meeting : ‘Here’s a random marketing idea for Apple – with every new product over the next 40 years make sure there is a new peripheral charger interface…dat’s where the money is!’
There’s some confusing perspective here.
The sparsely decorated room, Persian carpet, with California style rounded doors all speaks of Steve Jobs sense of style. Jobs is also barefoot suggesting it is his home, while Bill Gates (the barbarian) is wearing his shoes or possible black slippers.
This does not appear to be Bill’s place at all.
Was this just after Gates bought Bag End?
Michael…. BOLTON!? Is that your real name?
Where’s Waldo meets Dilbert irl
“Hi, I’m a Mac”.
“And I’m a PC”.
That rug really ties the room together
You know how you survive? You make people need you. You survive because you make them need what you have. And then they have no where else to go.
Steve is dressed for the 60’s and Bill for the 80’s.
It must be Steve’s house because there is almost no furniture anywhere.
Are they in a hobbit house?
If you can find it, I highly recommend the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley from the late 90s starring Anthony Michael Hall as Gates and Noah Wyle as Jobs. It’s a made for TV movie that aired on TNT. While not a perfect film, it’s been regarded as pretty accurate by some of the individuals portrayed. Worth checking out to understand the beginnings of each company up until the movie’s end which is the infamous Bill Gates appearance at Macworld where they helped bail out Apple in 1997.
“In the future, people will not actually own my apple devices, they just borrow them for an absurd amount of money” “oh yeah, well I am gonna use my software to gather data on everyone without them knowing!”
There’s a great interview out there with Steve Jobs from around the time he was at Next.
For those who don’t know Jobs’ career arc, it was something like:
1 Starts Apple and becomes massively successful
2 Gets pushed out of Apple
3 Starts Pixar and Next
4 Pixar makes no money, Next is failing spectacularly
5 Pixar releases Toy Story, Jobs is rehired by Apple
6 Jobs turns Apple around
The interview is between steps 4 and 5. He’s at a prettly low point in his life, so the interview lacks some of the bravado that comes with the confidence of success. In that interview, he talks about the future of computing, what smartphones can be and a number of other way out ideas that become our reality.
It’s really interesting if you can find it (used to be on Netflix), shows a very different side of him.
Max Fischer and Michael Bolton
Cool??
Eames Lounge Chair & Ottoman by Herman Miller
Steve: “You say you see the future of tech?”
Bill: “Yes, it’s called… BOB.”
“Soon any moron with an insane conspiracy theory will be able to spread their idiocy to millions of others without any repercussions or fear of fact checking. No longer will they be forced to defend their bullshit on the spot in public but will instead be able to anonymously make claims with zero proof, zero logic, and zero responsibility. Assholes, sociopaths, and imbeciles all over the world will have a very prominent role in the future.”
Now that’s how you share an eames chair!
Ain’t that guy on the right Michael Bolton?
“We’re gonna take fractions of pennies off of every transaction…”
Anyone else think Bill Gates looks like Michael Bolton from office space?
Gates obviously coming to Steve’s house to inform him. “Listen. I’m gonna use you, so I can attempt to monopolize the industry.”
You sure that’s not Michael Bolton?
Striking resemblance to Michael Bolton
Jobs: “porn in your phone? You mean sex hotlines right?
Gates: “no I mean pictures of naked women, more than you can imagine.”
Jobs: “but how many porn stars are there even? At some point people will have seen all of them.
Gates: ” no that’s just it, the phone also has a camera, so anyone can make porn. Will have naked pictures of the neighbors, naked pictures of moms, really if you can think of a women there will be a naked picture of her, and if she doesn’t want to, the phone will have software to put her face on someone else’s naked body.
Jobs: and the coverage will be great to right? Like calls won’t get dropped or anything?
Gates: “no that part will still be shitty.”
I had no idea their love child would be Where’s Waldo!
“Steve, I don’t know how to say this, but your striped shirt looks stupid. You need something like a black turtleneck to set the outfit off.”
Remember when we pillaged Xerox for all those fantastic ideas and built our empires from them? Good times.
it looks like a **Kids in the Hall** sketch
Bill Gates has always looked like a nerd/geek. Steve Jobs always looked like a pretentious douche.
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