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This isn’t much of a surprise, but Bill Gates doesn’t let the kiddies use an iPod on iPhone in the house, according to an interview with wife Melinda Gates. Heck, if you were Bill Gates, would you? That would be some seriously bad press if anyone found out – you can just see the headline: “Gates Family Secretly Adores Apple”. Surely they suffer no shortage of Windows Mobile devices (or XBoxes, or big piles of money to roll around in) in that house, but that doesn’t stop Mrs. Gates from eyeballing the competition.
“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. … Every now and then I look at my friends and say ‘Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that iPhone’.”
[via Gizmodo]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
