{"id":6628,"date":"2010-04-11T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/macdailynews-1998-bill-gates-i-can%e2%80%99t-figure-out-why-jobs-is-even-trying-to-be-apple-ceo-he-knows-he-cant-win\/"},"modified":"2010-04-11T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:28:58","slug":"macdailynews-1998-bill-gates-i-can%e2%80%99t-figure-out-why-jobs-is-even-trying-to-be-apple-ceo-he-knows-he-cant-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/macdailynews-1998-bill-gates-i-can%e2%80%99t-figure-out-why-jobs-is-even-trying-to-be-apple-ceo-he-knows-he-cant-win\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDailyNews – 1998 Bill Gates: I can\u2019t figure out why Jobs is even trying to be Apple CEO; he knows he can’t win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bob Cringely has republished a quote from an interview he did with Bill Gates from June, 1998 for a never-published piece for Vanity Fair:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I can\u2019t figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO of Apple)? He knows he can\u2019t win.\u201d – Bill Gates, June 1998<\/p>\n

Cringely writes, “Look at the two companies today. Jobs is still running Apple despite cancer and a liver transplant while Gates has moved on to saving the world at the Gates Foundation. Microsoft is worth $240 billion, a tiny drop from 12 years ago, with the shares now around $27 (down from $29). Nothing gained in more than a decade. Apple shares, on the other hand, have gone from $7.25 to almost $240, Apple\u2019s market cap has risen more than 33X from $6 billion to $220 billion. And Cupertino\u2019s cash hoard today is almost exactly the same as Microsoft\u2019s at around $40 billion.”<\/p>\n

[From MacDailyNews – 1998 Bill Gates: I can\u2019t figure out why Jobs is even trying to be Apple CEO; he knows he can’t win<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Cringely has republished a quote from an interview he did with Bill Gates from June, 1998 for a never-published piece for Vanity Fair: \u201cWhat I can\u2019t figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO of Apple)? He knows he can\u2019t win.\u201d – Bill Gates, June 1998 Cringely writes, … Continue reading MacDailyNews – 1998 Bill Gates: I can\u2019t figure out why Jobs is even trying to be Apple CEO; he knows he can’t win<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1IU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}