Apple forbidden fruit in Gates household Microsoft founder Bill Gates has banned iPods and iPhones from
his household, the software billionaire's wife, Melinda, has
revealed.
The rivalry between Microsoft and Apple, and Gates and Apple
founder Steve Jobs, is legendary, but the pair have made valiant
efforts to conceal any animosity. A rare public appearance together
at a conference in 2007 was described by journalists as a "love
fest".
But behind the scenes, Apple is the forbidden fruit in Microsoft
quarters.
"There are very few things that are on the banned list in our
household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for
our kids," Melinda Gates said in a recent
interview with Vogue.
But the rule has evidently been difficult to follow for Gates
now that the Apple wundergadgets are the talk of the town.
"Every now and then I look at my friends and say, 'Ooh, I
wouldn't mind having that iPhone,' " she said.
Melinda Gates, 44, is the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropic organisation
with about $US35 billion in assets. The Vogue interview
centred on her efforts to enhance global health care and to reduce
extreme poverty.
The couple have three children, Jennifer, 12, Rory, 9 and
Phoebe, 6. Continue At Source
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