Re: iPhone is AT&T's top-selling handset

Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 21 Oct 2007 18:55:33 -0700 Mr. Strat wrote:
>
>> If you caught the Q&A a couple months back where Bill & Steve shared a
>> stage, Gates came across as a visionless geek with no understanding of
>> the relationship of technology and people. Steve, on the other hand,
>> showed a vision of how technology could improve people's lives.
>
>
> Improve whose lives, though?
> One man is currently trying to improve conditions in the third world, the
> other is making it easier to identify what song is currently playing at
> Starbucks.

Gates doesn't have the rock star qualities of Steve Jobs. They each have
their own set of groups that they help. Think of how Apple popularized
the use of computers in education. Gates has the financial resources to
help improve conditions in the third world. He is (or was) several
orders of magnitude wealthier than Jobs.

Combining a cell phone and MP3 player with a web browser may not be the
same as feeding the world's hungry, but maybe it'll help Job's transfer
enough wealth to himself and Apple stock holders that they can emulate
what Gate's is doing.