盖茨历年对苹果产品评价的汇总

以下是从互联网上摘录的盖茨对乔布斯和苹果产品的历年来的一些评论。虽然没有时间去逐个考证，是否真得都是出自盖茨本人，但是从文风上看，还是蛮可信的。

• What I can’t figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO of Apple)? He knows he can’t win.” - Bill Gates, June 1998

• The one thing Apple's providing now is leadership in colors. It won't take long for us to catch up with that, I don't think. - Bill Gates, commenting on iMac in colors debut, circa July 2000

• You can't come up with a new OS. - Bill Gates on why Microsoft chose to put Windows inside Tablet PCs instead of a different operating system designed specifically for tablet use, November 2002

• There's nothing that the iPod does that I say, 'Oh, wow, I don't think we can do that.' - Bill Gates, September 2004

• I don't believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run. - Bill Gates, May 2005

• There’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' - Bill Gates, February 2010

盖茨在其他方面都有非常深刻的洞察力，但是对乔布斯的能力显然是大大低估了。

这个可能和两个人完全不同的背景有关吧。盖茨出生于富庶之家，对于出生后就被亲身父母抛弃，再被人收养的乔布斯，从个人风格再到能力完全没有办法准确估计。 而乔布斯出众的艺术鉴赏力更是他完全不具备的。

一个曾经睡在朋友家地板上，靠着回收可乐空罐的五美分买东西吃的人，一个曾经每个星期天晚上步行七英里的路，绕过大半个城镇，就为了去印度教的 Hare Krishna神庙吃顿好饭的人，却仍然拥有一个追求完美和极致的心。

在9年多时间里，在Windows和IE占据了个人电脑市场90%以上份额却毫无进步的年代里，乔布斯却一手打造了一个全新的数字王国。无论盖茨因为身份的关系，嘴上如何不服软， 他自己的心里肯定是一清二白的。

盖茨的难题大概是，如果自己的女儿只喜欢用Mac，究竟给不给她买呢？