Comments on: Apple vs. Google: Lessons from Bill Gates’ playbook

By: ERic

ERic — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:10:12 +0000

This may come to and end since Apple is attempting to sue Google for the slide lock feature which was used by another company before Apple had it. Although the case goes much deeper then just the slide lock.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:06:29 +0000

At any time you could have purchased a Mac or installed any version of nix for personal use but for business yes we had no choice. Microsoft has improved its products greatly in the last few years but I don’t know if it will be enough, it feels like Mac is on the rise these days. Maybe Windows 8 will be a game changer for them?

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:07:42 +0000

Like Windows, Android can run on manufacture created hardware. This is the same path that Microsoft took which made PCs so much cheaper and made them accessible to a wider audience. Google is doing the same thing here, create the OS and let device manufactures create the feature set. Will it work like it did for Microsoft? Who knows.

By: Shervin Talieh

Shervin Talieh — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:01:19 +0000

In fact, all of their products were late, buggy, and they threatened the hardware manufacturers (routinely). They stymied innovation. Remember Netscape? Remember how they wouldn’t let PC makers bundle other software solutions into the bootup? MS kills innovation.

By: Shervin Talieh

Shervin Talieh — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:57:21 +0000

They licensed DOS from Digital (DR-DOS) and quickly created MS-DOS. This was before Windows.

By: Shervin Talieh

Shervin Talieh — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:55:18 +0000

Completely agree. Open Source, API’s and cloud-computing weren’t around when MS was threatening and hijacking their way to growth (there is a very litigious, dark-side to MS, and they don’t pull punches). Open systems always win out, over the long run. My money is on Google, and others. Even Apple is threatened by Google and FB, in spite of all their success.

By: Roger Grobler

Roger Grobler — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:28:59 +0000

My 10 year old came up to me the other day all excited: “Did you know, that Bill Gates was into computers long ago!”

How complete is that in terms of rebranding your own personal reputation. Good for him.

By: netgarden

netgarden — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:55:17 +0000

@Billy Ray, the fact of the matter is that Microsoft was killing EVERYBODY at the point that Bill Gates stepped away from day-to-day so that’s hardly a random event when we know what proceeded it and what happened after he stepped away.

As to the reference about Gates’ aggressive nature, the point in that section is NOT that Jobs was influenced by Gates, but rather, that the aggressive pursuit of seeing markets through to the win is SIMILAR with both Gates and Jobs, whereas Google is more collegial.

By: Billy Ray

Billy Ray — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:03:38 +0000

yes it is “hyperbole” – and it’s ridiculous.

As incorrect as points 1,2 and 4 are, the silliest comment I found was:

“But an equally big part of this was due to Bill Gates’ aggressive nature. In this regard, there are strong similarities between Gates’ Microsoft and the culture that Steve Jobs built.”

Are you implying that Steve Jobs returned to Apple and emulated Bill Gates? Steve Jobs was not aggressive the first time around?

By: pk22901

pk22901 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:16:00 +0000

Your right about Apple, but they licensed from Xerox, not ‘stole’.

Also right about Microsoft, but they ‘ripped it off’ from Apple, not ‘derived’.