Bill Gates confirms he's still on team Android, not iPhone (2024)
Bill Gates confirmed he's still on team Android, not iPhone, during his eleventh Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
Reddit user 1oarecare asked the Microsoft cofounder what his "daily driver smartphone" is, noting that Gates said he used a Galaxy Fold during his last AMA.
"I have a Samsung Fold 4 which JY Lee the Chairman of Samsung gave me when I saw him in South Korea to update my Fold 3," Gates responded.
The Galaxy Z Fold4 is a foldable smartphone that isn't cheap: it retails for nearly $1,600 in the US, which is more expensive than the starting price tags for Apple's iPhone 14 and 14 Pro.
Gates said he uses "Outlook and a lot of Microsoft software" on his phone, and because of its screen size, he doesn't use a tablet, "just the phone and my portable PC - a Windows machine."
Android holds around 72% of the mobile operating system market share around the world, according to StatCounter. Apple is in second place with almost 27% of the market share.
Gates said he uses an Android because he wants "to keep track of everything," during an interview on Clubhouse in 2021.
He said he'll "often play around with iPhones," but depends on his Android because he's used to it.
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"Some of the Android manufacturers pre-install Microsoft software in a way that makes it easy for me," he said.
In the same question on Reddit about his phone, Gates was asked if he's in the know of upcoming Microsoft products, and if he gets insights into new launches.
"Microsoft involves me in some of the research and product plans," Gates said, adding that he enjoys working with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, but that he's not up to date on the company's hardware roadmap.
"The greatest mistake ever is the whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is, [meaning] Android is the standard non-Apple phone form platform," Gates said at an event hosted by venture capital firm Village Global in 2019. "That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win."
Microsoft launched its own Windows-powered phones, but stopped selling them in 2017 after they couldn't make as great of an impact on the smartphone market as Androids and iPhones.
Bill Gates confirmed he's still on team Android, not iPhone, during his eleventh Ask Me Anything on Reddit. Reddit user 1oarecare asked the Microsoft cofounder what his "daily driver smartphone" is, noting that Gates said he used a Galaxy Fold during his last AMA.
Contrary to popular opinion, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' preferred phone isn't the Surface Duo, neither is it any iPhone. The billionaire, in a ask-me-anything session on Reddit revealed that he is a Samsung loyalist.
Gates claims he does not use a tablet and the Galaxy Z Fold 4's screen size is ideal for daily work. Apart from that, the former Microsoft executive has revealed that he uses Windows Surface Studio as his daily PC.
While Musk could arguably employ any phone on earth as his daily driver, be it bleeding edge prototypes from Tesla's workshops or a future neuralink phone embedded in his head, he opts for the staple premium flagship from Apple.
Apple is in second place with almost 27% of the market share. Gates said he uses an Android because he wants "to keep track of everything," during an interview on Clubhouse in 2021.
We do know Bezos used an iPhone back in 2020, which was unfortunately hacked via WhatsApp. That event likely got him to switch sides to Android, but it's reasonable to assume he's chosen some niche, ultra-security-oriented version of Android, on a security-oriented phone.
Buffett has been a long-term user of a $20 ( ₹1,438 approximately) Samsung SCH-U320 flip phone. Now, he is a proud owner of an iPhone 11. The billionaire investor admitted that he uses his new iPhone "as a phone".
The statistic states that the Falcon Supernova iPhone 6 Pink Diamond Edition holds the record for being the most expensive cellphone ever created. This specific edition of the iPhone 6 was priced at a staggering $48.5 million.
Most investors are no doubt familiar with Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft (MSFT 0.37%). After helming the technology company for a quarter of a century, the chief executive stepped down to spend more time on his charitable endeavors.
Bill Gates is an outlier that way because he just confirmed he's rocking the Galaxy Z Fold 4 – Samsung's flagship foldable offering from 2022, which obviously is an Android. “I have a Samsung Fold 4 which JY Lee the Chairman of Samsung gave me when I saw him in South Korea to update my Fold 3.
Bill Gates wants you to know that he still doesn't use an iPhone. Bill Gates has said many times that he prefers Android over iPhone, and that apparently hasn't changed.
It appears that like most of us casual folk, billionaires either go with an iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy. You don't see many of them rocking an Asus phone, or Sony, or Xiaomi, or any of the many other options. Just the absolute most popular brands.
As of early 2024, Android has a 70.69% market share worldwide. In the US, iPhones hold a market share of 60.77%. More than 1 billion iPhones and over 3 billion Android devices are currently active.
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