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You clearly have never read his biography ;)

via an All Things D event:

> What’s more, thanks to the popularity of iTunes on PCs, Apple has become a major Windows software developer. “We’ve got cards and letters from lots of people who say that iTunes is their favorite app on Windows,” noted Jobs. “It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in Hell.”

That quip apparently caused Bill Gates to become quite angry:

https://books.google.com/books?id=6e4cDvhrKhgC&lpg=PA463&ots...



Steve Jobs publicly mentioning only praise about things Steve Jobs made? Unbelievable!


I can only conclude that the people sending such letters had only previously used GTK+ apps on Windows or something.




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