Apple vs Microsoft | Rotten to the Core | 1
Business Wars
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4.6 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Apple launches the groundbreaking Macintosh after a long delay. And Bill Gates' Microsoft team has made the software for the Mac. But pretty soon, Jobs grows worried about their partnership. He fears that Gates and Microsoft might be taking... more than they're giving.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can binge all four episodes of Business Wars Apple vs. Microsoft |
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| 0:10.3 | November 1983 Apple headquarters, Cupertino, California. |
| 0:24.9 | Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates walks into a conference room for Apple's CEO Steve |
| 0:30.2 | Jobs is waiting for him. |
| 0:32.8 | And he's furious. |
| 0:34.4 | I said to you to make it, Bill. |
| 0:37.4 | Gates sits down. |
| 0:38.8 | He knows where this is going. |
| 0:41.3 | Gates and Jobs have been working closely together for the last few years on software for |
| 0:45.8 | Apple's forthcoming Macintosh computer. |
| 0:49.1 | But Gates has a side gig. |
| 0:51.9 | You're obviously pissed with me. |
| 0:53.6 | Jobs have it. |
| 0:54.6 | Okay. |
| 0:56.6 | Jobs pulls up the sleeves on his black turtleneck to his forearms and glairs at Gates. |
| 1:02.0 | Why is it taking you so long to make the software we need? |
| 1:05.6 | Well Steve, you would have had it earlier if your team hadn't kept changing the hardware. |
| 1:11.0 | Jobs hired Gates to create graphical software. |
| 1:14.2 | Digital images or icons that a user can quickly click on instead of laboriously typing out |
| 1:19.0 | long commands. |
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