Bill Gates bans his wife and kids from having iPods, iPhones, and all Apple Products

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Report: Bill Gates Won't Let His Kids Have iPods
Published on Mar 4, 2009 by Fox News

You'd think the children of the world's richest man could get anything they wanted.

But Bill Gates' kids aren't allowed to have any Apple products, the Microsoft founder's wife tells Vogue magazine.

"There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household," Melinda Gates, a Microsoft millionaire in her own right, tells interviewer Michael Specter. "But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids."

It's pretty clear Bill Gates is familiar with Apple products — after all, Microsoft Word was first written for the original Mac. Yet the silken tentacles of Steve Jobs do not sully the well-timbered, high-tech lodge of the Gates family on the shores of Lake Washington.

According to MocoNews.net, Gates may have also banned BlackBerrys from the high-minded halls of his philanthropic Gates Foundation, issuing Windows Mobile-powered smartphones instead.

Still, the former Melinda French, a Microsoft millionaire in her own right before she became Mrs. Gates, admits to a little Apple envy.
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"Every now and then I look at my friends and say, 'Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that iPhone,'" she tells Vogue.
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So they already won't be inheriting his fortune... and now they only get to use Zunes and Windows Mobile phones?

Someone call child protective services at once! ;)
 
One would think that a family with that amount of tech savviness wouldn't cause that to be an issue. They would instead get, you know, good mp3 players and cell phones. Of course, banning Blackberries is obviously out of jealousy.
 
:dunce: since when are Blackberries apple? they would have been called iBerry wouldn't they? It doesn't say that he did, simply that he may have. Which is about as useful as soggy TP.

I always wondered if Bill Gates owned any Apple products.
 
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:dunce: since when are Blackberries apple? they would have been called iBerry wouldn't they? It doesn't say that he did, simply that he may have. Which is about as useful as soggy TP.
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Its called a joke.

BayConRong
I always wondered if Bill Gates owned any Apple products.
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I'd imagine he did at one point considering Microsoft's early jobs involved software and hardware integration on Apple ][s (TASC and Softcard).
 
BayConRong
:dunce: since when are Blackberries apple? they would have been called iBerry wouldn't they? It doesn't say that he did, simply that he may have. Which is about as useful as soggy TP.
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Well they're not, but they're non-Windows Mobile. Presumably he'd feel the same about anything Android based if he considered Google a threat.



...which he probably does.
 
Not like it is a bad thing. Apple Mp3 players are not that great anyhow, only the touch and iPhone are worth owning, and even then not for the music.

Hell, my Sansa clip, like $20, has better audio quality than my $500 iPod touch. And it isn't any better with the other iPod products.
 
Agreed... not a big deal. I ooh a little bit when I get to play with my family's various i things... but they're really not any better than a high-end mobile phone or player with similar features, better sound and more flexibility.

Now, the iMac... that's another story...
 
BIG NEWS..

Oh well..

How would you feel if you devote your entire life to one thing, and your kid is buying something different and crappy like the iPhone, iPod, or any other apple products?
 
The Zune? The one that locks you in to buying Windows just to connect it to your PC?

(And not just any Windows... a North American copy of Windows, to boot...)

It's just as bad as the iPhone-all-your-subscribers-are-belong-to-us-thingamajiggy.
 
I don't get how this is even a story. Do his kids have PS3s?

Does Luca di Montezemolo drive anything other than a Fiat/Lancia/Ferrari/Maserati?

Does Richard Branson fly with British Airways?

I don't see anyone complaining to them.
 
No this story isn't a surprise really, it probably happens all the time, but if it happened in this country ( England ) I have no doubt some idiots will start saying he is breaching his familys human rights ( right to free choice ) and the competition commission will start investigating as he is stopping his family buying a competitors products.
 

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