Bill Gates Reveals the Major Flaw Steve Jobs’ Biggest Competitor is Suffering From.

The lives of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were often parallel in many ways. However, they had completely different personalities. While Jobs had that wise aura given to him by the years he spent in the hippie movement, Gates had a radically different appearance from the founder of Apple. Both were true geniuses, which fueled their mutual hatred during their competitive years. In fact, this did not stop Gates from owning an iPhone before switching to Android. Now, he reveals a major flaw of his biggest competitor in an interview.

The classic rivalry between the two is well known. Gates led Microsoft at its peak, a feat Jobs also achieved with Apple at the same time. Additionally, both emerged from the same company and had significant friction in the past. At that time, computing was the jungle, and young developers were willing to do anything to succeed. Over time, this competition turned into respect and admiration.

However, in an interview conducted by Anant Goenka, the CEO of “The Indian Express,” Gates clarified Microsoft’s brilliant position regarding Steve Jobs. Although much of his speech led to flattery of his biggest competitor, there was one thing that made him dislike Apple’s leader’s behavior. It had to do with the treatment his employees received at Apple:

“I learned a lot from Steve. We were completely different, not similar at all, but his sense of design and marketing, Steve was great. He used to work a lot. He used to exhaust his employees so he was not perfect, but he was great.”

This reveals the trait that did not sit well with Bill Gates when it came to Steve Jobs. As he evolved in his speech, he also expressed his admiration for him. However, in the past, there were some truly tough exchanges. In the end, they were two completely different personalities, a fact that could even be seen in their attire, as Jobs always wore the same clothes.

According to La Información, when the first version of Windows was launched, Jobs accused them of completely imitating what Mac had offered, something Gates claimed was part of a “marked distortion of reality”. Accusations escalated until Microsoft’s genius assured his biographer that Jobs was “a rare person and a flawed human being”. Of course, Jobs was not far behind as he considered him “hard”, “unimaginative”, and “never invented anything”. It should be noted that he wished he had taken LSD in his youth to open his mind.

However, in the end, both buried the hatchet. Before Jobs’ death, there were already enough compliments; Jobs finally admitted that Gates “has a sense of humor”, while Gates confirmed that he admired Jobs.