Bill Gates’ Message on Facebook
The following is the post Bill Gates left on his Facebook wall regarding Steve Jobs’ premature demise.
“I’m truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’ death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work.
Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.
The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.
For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.”
Just as what Gates said, they have been great competitors as both have gown down in history. I believe many people will miss Steve Jobs immensely, just like Bill Gates does.
Deb
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kstooshnov 10:55 pm on October 7, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Deb,
I recently had a peek at an Apple Store information session at UBC, and was impressed with the legacy Steve Jobs has left behind with the numerous stores opening every nine days around the world. To read Bill Gates’ condolences, especially his admirable comment about being competitors, makes me wonder what computing would have been like if these two friends worked together for the past thirty years, but that ship has sailed :-/
One more innovation that needs commenting upon is Steve’s other business, reinventing the film industry with Pixar Studio. This great article does a great job summarizing his contribution to the best-made animation in the last decade and a half. While I am sure other studio heads are drafting their sympathetic statements, Variety’s David Cohen (quoted in the article) says it best: “the influence that Steve Jobs had on Hollywood has not even been fully realized…He was a master at disruptive technologies.”
Deb Kim 6:06 pm on October 8, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks for the information. To tell you the truth, Steve Jobs and Apple have never occurred to be my interest until recently when I saw his speech on TV. But even after that, what I liked about Apple is its products, not Steve Jobs. No matter what other people say, I do believe that his contribution to technologies and animation is amazing. I’m curious if Apple and Microsoft can still be competitors after Jobs’ passing.
Deb