Bill Gates Apple Quotations

We went down to Apple to talk to them about putting QuickTime into our media player,

Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

It's very exciting to renew our commitment to the Macintosh. We're very pleased to be supporting Apple. We think Apple makes a huge contribution to the computer industry.