As two influential figures in the United States, Apple founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are often compared. Indeed, their lives have become legends, so what are the grievances behind these two geniuses?
1On February 24th, 955, Jobs was born in Silicon Valley, USA. When he was a baby, he was adopted by Paul Jobs and Clara Jobs. The former is a mechanic in a laser company, and the latter is an accountant. Both of them are dead.
1On October 28th, Bill Gates was born in America. His father William is a company lawyer and his mother Mary is a school teacher. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, Gates sold his first computer programming work, a timetable system. The buyer is his high school and the price is $4,200.
According to Forbes 20 1 1 annual ranking, Jobs' current net worth is $8.3 billion, and as early as 2007, Bill Gates' net worth reached $58 billion. However, the comparison between them goes far beyond the amount of money.
1972, Jobs was a freshman and dropped out of school. 1974 Attracted by Buddhism, he traveled to India and became a monk. 1976, Jobs returned to China, made inventions with friends in his shabby garage, created Apple's second-generation personal computer, and won the first pot of gold in his life.
1979, after two years of hard work, Jobs's Apple became synonymous with personal computers, and he became a millionaire successfully.
At this time, bill gates, who was penniless, was still working on the BASIC interpreter in his basement. 1980, three generations of Apple went public, and Apple went public. Jobs is worth more than10 million dollars, making him the youngest richest man on Wall Street. In the same year, Bill Gates got his first bucket of gold from IBM and earned the first 50,000 yuan in his life.
1996: After 10 years of profligacy, moderns is gone forever, and the company is about to declare bankruptcy. In 2000, Jobs became the permanent CEO of Apple. In the following ten years, he launched a series of Apple products that changed the world: iMac integrated computer, iPod generation 1 and iPod generation 2, iPhone 3G, iPhone4 and iPad tablet computer. 20 1 1, Jobs announced his resignation. At this time, the broken apple has crushed Nokia to death. There is no doubt that Apple has changed the concept of mobile phones and human life.
After Jobs returned to Apple, he chose to cooperate with his competitor Microsoft. 1997, Microsoft invested10.50 billion dollars in Apple, which was about to go bankrupt. Their agreement includes the most important patent crossover and a five-year compromise. Bill Gates knows that the lack of jobs means that the whole computer industry is restricted by large state-owned monopoly enterprises like IBM.
That's exactly what happened. Since Jobs left Apple in 1985, although the industry should have made great progress, there is almost no innovation, but the hardware is soaring. Jobs, who has a strong personality, actually bowed to Microsoft! Aside from the competition and cooperation between the two companies, Gates and Jobs are actually very good friends, not bitter rivals. When the money reaches that position, it's just a number. Everyone is not fighting for property, but looking at things.
Subsequently, Apple was invincible, iTunes defeated Sony, and iPhone defeated Nokia. Jobs was an orphan, abandoned by his biological mother in an orphanage, and his adoptive parents were not rich, so he still gave everything he had to send him to college. He used to take drugs, and he was the CEO who was fired from his own apple. Nokia is 24 times as big as Apple, but it was destroyed in just four years. At the most decadent time, Apple had only 2% of the market, but Jobs could still say optimistically: "I found a good thing. I found that Apple+Microsoft is equal to 100%, so they are our only partners, and everything we promote can be called standards. "
Microsoft is really huge now, but it is facing unprecedented challenges. At this time, Jobs passed away. His departure was not a loss for Apple, but a great loss for mankind. Jobs once said that he and Bill Gates would talk on the phone every few weeks. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, the difference between them is far from what people think; And the connection between them is far greater than people think.
1977, Jobs and Bill Gates met for the first time at the West Coast Computer Exhibition. Jobs rented an eye-catching booth at the main entrance of the exhibition hall at a high price of $5,000, where he will launch AppleII, the second generation product of Apple. Among thousands of fans of Jobs' products, Bill Gates was still unknown at that time. Seeing Jobs is like seeing the stars of Bill Gates.
Jobs proudly said to the visitors in the exhibition hall, "However, for the first time in my life, someone else came to me, not me." Leaving Bill Gates by his side to dry, I had no idea that after more than ten years, this humble little guy would "retaliate" in a way hundreds of times more than him, and deal with him as he deals with you.
"At the age of 23, I was already a millionaire; At the age of 24, I was already a multimillionaire; By the time I was 25, I was already a billionaire. But none of this matters, because I didn't do it for money. " Jobs was arrogant, paranoid and indifferent. At that time, he had no idea that disaster was approaching him, and Bill Gates, who was ignored by him, would give him a fatal blow.
From 65438 to 0980, the computer giant IBM suddenly announced its entry into the personal computer industry, and seized half of the country in a very short time. This made Jobs gnash his teeth. He found Scott to shoot an advertisement with the intention of attacking IBM. At this time, Microsoft has begun to cooperate with IBM, and Bill Gates quickly became the richest man in the world through the operating system.
1984, Bill Gates came to Apple with Excel, Word and charts to negotiate with Jobs. Jobs rejected Gates again, and Gates sold the product to IBM instead.
1On February 24th, 985, Jobs celebrated his 30th birthday. He never imagined that the apple he founded was pushed to the edge of falling apart by himself. It was he who split the apple into Macintosh and other factions, and it was he who made Woz, a desperate companion, have the intention to leave. In May, Jobs was deprived by the board of directors of the right to continue working at Apple.
Just when Jobs resigned, Bill Gates' graphical user interface system was born. Gates still owns the ownership of this system and actively sells it to various computer manufacturers. This eventually made Gates the richest man in the world. Its name is Windows.
From 1987 to 1997, Microsoft was a "monster" with a market value of $250 billion. Apple lost 1996, and the number is still expanding. Gates is not optimistic about Apple's future, and he will resell his $654.38+$50 million Apple stock. If Gates insists on keeping it from the beginning, this investment will bring Microsoft an annual profit of 5 billion.
1996, Jobs returned to Apple in trouble. 1On August 6th, 997, under the lure of Jobs, Gates bought the non-voting shares of Apple for $65438+500 million, saving the dying Apple. In return, Apple dropped the lawsuit against Microsoft for copyright infringement, and built InternetExplorer and Office into every Macintosh. Gates smiled even more happily. Perhaps, he has long forgotten what he once loved to say: be close to friends, but be closer to enemies.
1998, Apple introduced the notebook iMac. 200 1 year, iPod and iTune were born. Jobs brought Apple to the music world. In 2007, Jobs introduced the touch-screen smartphone iPhone, which brought Apple into the mobile phone industry in a forward-looking way. Then, there are 20 10 iPad and iPhone4. In just ten years, Apple has changed from a bankrupt company to a huge empire. Jobs is the absolute monarch of this empire, and his ubiquitous shadow has long gone beyond the scope of personal computers, thus becoming a leader idol across IT, mobile phones and multimedia businesses.
In mourning for Jobs, US President Barack Obama wrote that Jobs changed our lives, redefined the whole industry and created the rarest miracle in human history: he changed the way each of us looked at the world. The world has lost a visionary. The highest tribute to Jobs' success is that many people in the world learned the news of his death through a product he invented.