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The Bill and Steve Show

FINALLY HAVING WATCHED the Gates/Jobs debate at AllThingsDigital, I cannot convey my disappointment. What a waste of time! Half an hour into the show when I managed to discount the natural awe coming from seeing those guys, stepping down from magazine covers and actually alive, breathing, speaking, I realized that if you want to know what’s going on inside Apple or Microsoft, you really shouldn’t be paying too much attention to their respective icons. It was all PC, all warm and Uncle Fluffy-like. To tune in and expect a sign of conflict, or even simple competition, would have been a gross miscalculation.

On the positive note, it was a useful reminder that the software industry hasn’t begun with Google. Indeed, it’s been around for a couple dozen years now, and seeing those two had me thinking, maybe the industry has matured already and became slow and steady and, yes, boring. It’s easy to say that Flickrs and Tumblrs and Fkkers are the new paradigm-breakers, the new Microsofts and Apples, if you are 18; those two surviving proofs of evolution suggest that not all revolutions succeed in uprooting the old order. They are here to stay.

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June 5, 2007 | Filed Under Asides & Off-topic, Enterpreneurship, Rants 

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