Microsoft founder Bill Gates has shrugged off criticism of him in the new authorised Steve Jobs biography.
In the biography "Steve Jobs," author Walter Isaacson quotes Jobs saying of Gates: "Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."Bill Gates has now appeared on "This Week" on abcTV in the US.
(Source: abcNews)"Over the course of … the 30 years we worked together, you know, he said a lot of very nice things about me and he said a lot of tough things," Gates said, reflecting on their work together on the software for the first Macintosh computer. "We got to work together. We spurred each other on, even as competitors. None of that bothers me at all."Gates said some of Jobs' frustration with him may have been caused by Microsoft's business success as Apple struggled for years, before becoming dominant in the last decade."He faced, several times at Apple, the fact that their products were so premium priced that they literally might not stay in the marketplace," Gates said. "So the fact that we were succeeding with high volume products, you know, including a range of prices, because of the way we worked with multiple companies, it's tough.""And so the fact that … he felt beleaguered, he felt like he was the good guy and we were the bad guys, you know, very understandable," Gates added.
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