[bambax]

The Gates anecdote is really neat (edited for brevity):

For our fifth D conference, both Steve and Bill Gates agreed to a joint appearance. But it almost got derailed.

Earlier in the day, before Gates arrived, I did a solo onstage interview with Jobs, and asked him what it was like to be a major Windows developer, since Apple’s iTunes program was by then installed on hundreds of millions of Windows PCs.

He quipped: “It’s like giving a glass of ice water to someone in Hell.” When Gates later arrived and heard about the comment, he was, naturally, enraged.

In a pre-interview meeting, Gates said to Jobs: “So I guess I’m the representative from Hell.” Jobs merely handed Gates a cold bottle of water he was carrying. The tension was broken, and the interview was a triumph.

[barney54]

This is a perfect story about Jobs. The ipod was brilliant, but iTunes is a truly terrible program. It is by far the worst program that I use on a regular basis. But the greatness of the ipod (or iphone and ipad) outweighs putting up with iTunes.

I've always wondered how Jobs could put up with iTunes being so bad. But now everyone is perfect and he obviously had a blind eye when it came to iTunes.

[ethank]

Notice how its 10.5 with the iOS 5 betas and not 11?