Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates attended his first meeting this week on Clubhouse, the increasingly popular just-invite app, where he posed a series of questions as part of an ongoing book tour.
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Gates was interviewed by journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin and given that the Clubhouse app is currently only available on iOS, one of the questions that came up was of course whether Gates regularly uses an iPhone and whether he prefers iOS over Android.
“I’m actually using an Android phone,” Gates said. “Because I want to keep track of everything, I will play with iPhones regularly, but the one I carry happens to be Android.”
“So Android vs Apple – is it a religious thing?” asked Sorkin.
“Some of the Android manufacturers pre-install Microsoft software in a way that makes it easy for me,” Gates replies. ‘They’re smoother about how the software connects to the operating system. This is what I got used to. You know, a lot of my friends have ‘iPhone’, so there’s no purity. ‘
Clubhouse co-founder Paul Davison, who was also in the room for a short time, told Gates and Sorkin that an Android version of the app is the ‘best feature’ they are currently working on and what they are most excited about. .
In a 2019 interview, Gates admitted that Microsoft lost to Android as the standard non-Apple phone platform for the company based in Redmond was one of the biggest mistakes of all time.
In honesty for Gates, it was Steve Ballmer who served as CEO of Microsoft between 2000 and 2014. Ballmer laughed at the iPhone notoriety, but Apple laughed the last one, as Windows Phone failed to ever gain a significant market share among mobile operating systems and eventually left.
During the clubhouse meeting, Gates admits that he had an awkward relationship with Steve Jobs, but calls the former Apple CEO ‘unique’. Other topics that came up in the online discussion on Wednesday included the global health crisis, climate change and Gates’ new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” The full interview is available on YouTube.