Re: A shower of shite
A young Steve Jobs famously said "They have absolutely no taste, and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products,"
He also gave a lot of back-handed compliments to Microsoft and Gates. "Microsoft made a lot of applications for Macintosh and they were terrible," he said, before complimenting "but they kept at it and got better and eventually dominated the Macintosh application market."
Jobs' back-handed compliments didn't stop as he said that Microsoft are great opportunists but "I don't mean it in a bad way" he continued. "They are like Japanese and they just keep on coming," he said.
Jobs also said that he had no problem with Microsoft's success and that they "earned their success, for the most part," but what he had a problem was that Microsoft made "really third-rate products."
He didn't stop and continued lambasting Microsoft. "Their products have no spirit in them, their products are pedestrian." He said that what's said is that most customers also didn't have that spirit.
Jobs was then asked whether he was sad that Microsoft had "won" and Apple lost. He said, "what saddens me isn't that Microsoft had won but that their products lacked insight and creativity."