Bill Gates: "My phone is Android"
Bill Gates is in fashion. The co-founder of Microsoft has remade himself as a man of science in the broadest sense and his assessments today remain as valid or more valid than before, serve for better or for worse, because there is no doubt that the billionaire more Famous in the world of technology has been the protagonist of stories of all kinds ... and more since the pandemic haunts us.
But today we are not echoing any visionary or Samaritan-style spiel, but rather one of the most basic aspects of Bill Gates' technological life: what cell phone does he use? You have no idea about the brand, but it is known that Gates has used Android for years because he said so himself, hinting that the reason was the number of Microsoft applications that he has at his disposal in the Google operating system (for those statements it was deduced that he could be using a Samsung Galaxy 8 Plus Microsoft Edition).
And so it is. He has confirmed this in an interview that they have done in Clubhouse, it is a new voice social network, which is an audio Twitch in which what prevails is the conversation of the moment and that is only available by invitation and with an application only for iPhone. But no, Gates doesn't use the iPhone except to check it out every now and then, and so he's not a regular Clubhouse user either.
In fact, he used an Android phone. Since I like to keep track of everything, I often fiddle with iPhone, but the one I carry with me is Android, ”Gates replies. “Some of the Android manufacturers pre-install Microsoft software in a way that makes things easier for me. They are more flexible in how the software connects with the operating system. So that's what I ended up getting used to », they collect in MacRumors.
In all likelihood, Bill Gates would rather be using a Windows phone, but he couldn't. And while he blames the failure of Windows Mobile on the antitrust lawsuit, the truth is that Microsoft tried with all its might (it bought Nokia!), But it was late. Something that Gates has also come to recognize with the passage of time.
“The biggest mistake I have made is… whatever mismanagement I did that caused Microsoft to not be what Android is today. In other words, Android is the standard platform for mobile devices, the alternative to Apple. That's the natural position Microsoft should have gotten, ”Gates said a couple of years ago. «In the market there is only room for a mobile operating system beyond Apple and how much is it worth? $ 400 billion that could have been transferred from company G to company M… ”.
