“Good artists copy; great artists steal.” In our modern world, we are fortunate to live in an age of technological advances like never seen before. In fact, things that we take for granted had not even appeared fifty years previously. With all the technological advances in the world, we also see two large competitors in the field of computer marketing – Apple and Microsoft (Windows). These two companies rose from very similar backgrounds, but from two very different people who later branched off into their own roads in life: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have had a surprisingly similar life background. The two of them were born around the same time – in a world where being a good computer programmer was the equivalent of being a rock star. In simple terms, you were famous if you were a computer programmer. They abided with time until college, which was when the first Apple and Microsoft companies began forming. Both Jobs and Gates worked hard with …show more content…
In fact, Gates did attempt to create a business relationship with Jobs that day, only to have Jobs completely ignore him. This marked the beginning of a long-term rivalry between Apple and Microsoft. In 1981, Gates turned towards IBM and offered them a partnership of sorts. Bill Gates was on his way to becoming the wealthiest man alive. After a little while, Gates did work with Jobs briefly, and it would have appeared that they were getting along famously. Little did Jobs know, though, that Gates was stealing ideas and codes from his latest Macintosh, and redesigning it for his own PC. When the theft was discovered, Jobs accused Gates of thievery, to which Gates replied with the fact that both of them had merely taken the Graphical User Interface design from Xerox. They were both thieves; Gates just got there