"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.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @12:17AM (2 children)
Can you put files on and take files off without that gawd awful iTunes interface? Just asking because My last Apple stuff was an iPhone 3gs and iPod Touch 4. It was infuriating to copy a PDF onto it or take off the recorded audio I captured. I won't even talk about putting on Music or trying to move it off. I finally gave up on it, moved to Android and never looked back.
(Score: 3, Informative) by coolgopher on Thursday September 28 2017, @01:37AM
MS is moving to the cloud sync option too, annoyingly enough, but I can at least still do MTP mounts of the phone and copy things to/from it relatively easily. It used to be even better back when they had the explicit phone-sync app for the Mac.
For other reasons I do use OneDrive (for syncing some stuff to the VM at work), but iCloud has always been disabled.
(Score: 1) by WillR on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:56PM