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Bill Gates Switches to Android Phone

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 27 2017, @12:56AM   
from the use-what-works dept.

Both Phoenix666 and takyon wrote:

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has revealed he uses an Android-powered smartphone, rather than a Windows one.

"Recently, I actually did switch to an Android phone," he said, speaking on Fox News on Sunday.

Microsoft's own Windows-powered phones have failed to make a significant impact on the smartphone market, which is dominated by devices running Google's Android operating system.

However, Mr Gates said he had installed lots of Microsoft apps on his phone.

When asked whether he also had an iPhone, perhaps as a secondary device, he replied: "No, no iPhone."

He did not reveal which particular smartphone he currently uses.

Beware the chef who won't eat his own cooking.

Also at VentureBeat and CNET

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• He was gone by then. He was gone by then. (Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:39AM (4 children)

  by frojack (1554) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:39AM (#573604) Journal

  Bill was long gone from Microsoft by the time the first windows phone was released. It was never His Dog food.

  The windows phone came too late and left too early, and stayed around just long enough to fuck up windows even more than it already was.

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• Re:He was gone by then. Re:He was gone by then. (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:55AM (3 children)

  by c0lo (156) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:55AM (#573634) Journal

  Bill was long gone from Microsoft by the time the first windows phone was released.

  Really? Because, up to May 2014, he still held the Chairman position with Microsoft.

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  • Re:He was gone by then. Re:He was gone by then. (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday September 27 2017, @03:12AM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @03:12AM (#573641) Journal

    The chairman of the board.
    No actual control, and only weak influence on product development. He held a lot of stock. Not any real control.

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    • Re:He was gone by then. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @03:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @03:33AM (#573649)

      (pedantry, I know, but he wasn't quite "Gone").

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    • Still around for a "third" of his time (Score: 4, Informative) by canopic jug on Wednesday September 27 2017, @09:28AM

      by canopic jug (3949) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @09:28AM (#573714) Journal

      There are many reports that he is not gone. He spends a lot of time with the current CEO. That may or may not count a "control" but it does count as heavy influence. Here it says it's a third of his time, however much that comes out to be:

      Mr. Gates will substantially increase his involvement with the company, spending more than a third of his time there. In recent years, as the company’s chairman, he has been a more detached and infrequent actor at Microsoft, devoting less than a fifth of his time to it. Despite his new role, though, he will continue to stay deeply involved in his work as a globe-trotting philanthropist [sic].
      https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/technology/new-boss-at-microsoft-with-gates-at-his-side.html [nytimes.com]

      He's never quite been officially gone, even under the previous M$ CEO [youtube.com], though his official time decreased to just a fifth of his time then, however much that came out to be. Now he's around for a least a "third". Is that 15 hours? 20 hours? 30 hours? 10 hours?

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