Jul
21
Bill Gates on the iPhone
July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Ever wanted to ask a famous billionaire a question and have listened in vain to countless interviews with said person and urged the interviewer to ask the question you wanted? I finally got my wish. A few months ago I wrote here about how Bill Gates predicted the iPhone (he called it the “wallet PC”) […]
May
23
Bill’s Predictions
May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
15 years on from the publication of The Road Ahead, The Atlantic publishes their verdict on Bill’s predictions. I take issue with them on point #2, The Wallet PC Verdict: Hit. Gates’s wallet PC is more or less today’s mobile smartphone with voice capability added. What the Atlantic fail to mention here is that Bill […]
Feb
5
Has Microsoft dropped the ball?
February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
Dick Brass is a former exec at Microsoft. He is careful to mention how well Microsoft is doing financially but in the month that Apple launched the iPad he writes about how the company has lost its way. Microsoft has lost share in Web browsers, high-end laptops and smartphones . . .What happened? Unlike other […]