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Bill Gates says Apple CEO Position a No-Win

Quote: “What I can’t figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO of Apple)? He knows he can’t win.”
Date: June 1998

Bill Gates said the above quote when Steve Jobs returned to Apple in mid-90s. And there was a good reason too, at that time Microsoft’s stock was valued at $29 with while Apple’s barely peaked at $7.25. However nearly 14 years later, Apple’s become the most profitable company in the world.

Acer CEO Makes Fool Of Himself Over Apple Remarks

Quote: “Apple is like a mutant virus, escaping from the traditional structure of the PC industry, but the industry will still eventually build up immunity, thus further blocking this trend, and we believe the size of the non-Apple camp will exceed Apple’s, because this is how the industry normally evolves.”
Date: 9/9/2010

The Acer founder said the above quote to put the most happening products under dull light. Before this infamous quote is credited for claiming all American PC brands would be dead within 20 years.

Michael Dell Thinks Differently About Apple

Quote: “What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
Date: October 1997

When Dell’s CEO and founder was asked what would he do if he is in charge of Apple Inc he said above quoted lines. Apple’s investors, till this day are very thankful that the Apple board never took heed to Dell’s words.

Bill Gates Small Memory Gaffe

Quote:” No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
Date: 1981

The quote in today’s scenario excites laugh just for how lame Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, was about predicting the memory limit. However Gates denies that he ever said anything like this but it was supposedly quoted quoted at a computer trade show in support of the IBM PC’s 640KB RAM limit, which he’d been heavily promoting that year.

Google Assumes We Want it to Direct Our Lives

Quote: “I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions, they want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.”
Date: 8/14/2010

During a sitdown with the Wall Street Journal, Google’s Schmidt touched on several subjects from the company’s net neutrality stance to the Android platform. However things turned weird after he shared his vision of Google’s future and how users would rely on the search engine to tell them “what they should be doing next.” His quotes certainly did not go well with netizens.

Steve Jobs Believed Reading Was Dead

Quote: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
Date: 1/15/2008

This quote was Jobs jab at Amazon’s Kindle, that since Americans don’t read, the product is destined to ruin. Such words from one of the greatest tech visionary may creep you and creem you still more that Amazon’s kindle was in the bestseller list for 2011, selling an est. 383,000 physical copies in its first week.

Ethernet Inventor Predicts Internet Collapse

Quote: “Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet’s continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”
Date: 1995

Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com and inventor of Ethernet, made one of the most insane predictions ever made. He even guaranteed to literally eat his own words if his predictions fail. Living up to his promise, Metcalfe took his keynote speech during the International World Wide Web Conference in 1999, put a printed copy of his declaration into a blender, combined it with liquid, and drank it in front of the entire crowd. Of course the crowd was in fits of laughter.

source:::: silicon india net
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