Steve jobs and Bill Gates on not much

A bit later than the rest of the world I dusted off the video of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in conversation at the D5 conference. I found it really interesting that neither Bill Gates or Steve Jobs mentioned any start-ups at D5. I realise that anything they say would probably inflate the stock price of the company, but still. I wonder if these guys are only really aware of companies on the acquisition radar. I would love to hear someone like these two talk about Twitter or Jaiku.

Following on from that I was very disappointed with their response to the question about next generation user interfaces. What it came down to I can’t tell you from Steve Jobs and 3D and speech from Bill Gates. I mean really, with all the people at Apple and Microsoft that’s the best they have? Where is the out of the box thinking?

It’s good that these two significant men do interviews and the video is well worth watching (it’s available on iTunes) I just wish they would be a little more transparent.

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