Bill Gates described the iPad in 2007
With Steve Jobs sitting three feet away
At the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference in 2007, two giants of industry hit the stage. Like Tesla and Edison, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates shook hands and put aside their differences to chat about all things computing.
But Jobs's sly devilry wasn't apparent until 2010. Back then he was sitting there quietly, amicably listening to Gates describing his future of computing. Little did we know he was stealing all of Gates's ideas and would be using them against him three years later.
Bill Gates saw the future of portable computing as a two device set-up: a large screened tablet and a smartphone to complement it. Sound familiar? The tablet also features some way of having a hardware keyboard and will dramatically increase your amount of reading.
Gates, who says he "believes in the tablet form factor", thinks that the phone and tablet are the natural evolutions of portable computing, and they'll sell each other. Buy the phone and you'll eventually buy the tablet.
At the time, Steve didn't jump up on his chair and whoop to the crowd, "you've solved it Billy, that's what Apple will do next!" Instead, he kept his cool and revealed it three years later.
Oh Steve, you sly dog you. Watch the video below.
