Bill Gates revealed in a recent interview with the app audio chat app Clubhouse why he still prefers to use an Android phone over the iPhone. What this means, Gates explained, is that Android manufacturers are ‘smoother’ with software integration.
As our colleagues on 9to5Google reportedly, Gates joined Andrew Ross Sorkin this week for an interview in the Clubhouse app. Clubhouse, which is fast gaining in popularity, is currently an iPhone app, but an Android version is on the way.
Gates has talked about his use of Android in the past, and Sorkin was curious as to whether his preference might have changed as he spoke through a service available only on iOS.
In response, the Microsoft founder explained that he still prefers an Android, but that he keeps an iPhone to try out – and apparently because he has joined Clubhouse rooms. Gates’ reasoning for using Android is because manufacturers often pre-install Microsoft software:
I actually use an Android phone. Because I want to keep track of everything, I would regularly play around with iPhones, but the one I carry happens to be Android. Some Android manufacturers install Microsoft software in a way that makes it easy for me. It is smoother about how the software connects to the operating system. So this is what I finally got used to. Many of my friends have ‘iPhone’, so there is no purity.
The reasoning here is a bit odd because you can download Microsoft apps from the App Store on the iPhone and even now customize your default browser and email apps with iOS 14, so it’s not clear what Gates is referring to.
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