Even though they were great rivals, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates ended up forming a strong friendship. All this is the result of a letter that the co-founder of Apple sent to Microsoft in 1998 and in which was extracted what was in reality a big lie on the part of Jobs.
Apple’s new CEO at the time – he had returned triumphant after leaving years before – was trying to convince Bill Gates of Apple’s respect for Windows. However, he lied to her. He lied to her very blatantly.. And there is public evidence to prove it.
Microsoft made fun of Apple and it hurt Steve Jobs
It was Tuesday February 3, 1998 and Steve Jobs, as revealed by Internet Tech Emails, was writing a long email to his counterpart at Microsoft in order to iron out the difficulties that had been brewing for years due to the intense competition between Apple. and his company.
At that time, the two companies were collaborating on integrating Office 98 with Macintoshes, which, as Jobs revealed in that email, had been beneficial to both companies. However, Apple CEO was hurt by the mockery at Quicktime’s expensethe media player recently announced by Apple at the start of the decade and which Apple was trying to reboot.
“They are quite threatening and rude”
Steve Jobs said that Microsoft’s NetShow team was rude to QuickTime and threatened to respond with the same vigor if these taunts persisted. In fact, he informed Gates that Apple had already made the decision not to include NetShow in the next Macintosh package.
Although if there’s anything remarkable about the email Jobs sent to Gates, it’s the part in which He categorically states that Apple did not make fun of Windows. In fact, he tried to pretend they never did it.
“You don’t hear Apple criticizing Windows, do you? If you did, you might feel the same way we feel now when we hear the NetShow group criticize Quicktime.”
In fact, Jobs harshly criticized Windows
That Steve Jobs preferred Macintosh to Windows is obvious to say the least. And knowing little of his acid humor, we can imagine that some private criticism falls on the Microsoft system. Although the truth is that there is no need to access the anonymous testimonies from Apple’s offices, since these criticisms were public.
The best test is nearly seven-minute video of Steve Jobs mocking Windows throughout history. It was compiled by a fan on YouTube and it’s worth it. And whether or not Apple’s co-founder was right to criticize or ridicule, it is clear that Apple did criticize its rival and that Jobs was lying when he said the opposite. Unless you don’t consider yourself part of Apple.
For the memory there will also already be legendary spots Mac vs PC in which the operation of Windows was parodied, depicting him as an old-fashioned, problematic forty-year-old with a Mac played by a younger, more modern boy who came to solve his problems and bragged about being better than him at ‘a comical way. Also on YouTube we can find a compilation of all of them with a duration of almost 40 minutes.
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