Bill Gates used to live in Steve Job’s shadow when the Apple legend was alive. Apple’s founder used to be a born visionary, creator, worshiper of things’ aesthetics.
By The Clockwork Orange Times Team
Berkshire Hathaway’s boss greeted Tim Cook as a “fantastic manager” of Apple, characterising him as “one of the best managers in the world”.
Bill Gates used to live in Steve Job’s shadow when the Apple legend was alive. Apple’s founder used to be a born visionary, creator, worshiper of things’ aesthetics.
Microsoft had always been struggling compared to Apple whose products she was looking at with jealousy and a kind of craving a thirsty desert traveller has when he sees in front of him a beauty having a shower wasting hundreds of cubic meters of water.
Even when Steve Jobs was dead, Bill Gates and Microsoft were not able to keep their head above water. Whoever used Microsoft computers and software knew first-hand what software virus meant as they spent so much money, which ended up in Gates’ pockets, to deal with them. The viruses had always been therapeutical for Bill Gates’ income.
A few days ago, the great investor, philanthropist and spiritual man Warren Buffet greeted Tim Cook during the annual shareholders meeting as a “fantastic manager” of Apple, characterizing him as “one of the best managers in the world”.
Warren Buffet answered Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ questions about its investments. To the question why the investing company sold some of the common stocks owned on Apple even though it was considered the company’s “fourth jewel”, Buffet quickly praised Apple as a company and Cook as its leader.
“Apple has got a fantastic manager” Buffet starts in a video live stream on Yahoo Finance. “Tim Cook has been a little underappreciated. He is one of the best managers in the world. And I have seen a lot of them. He has got a product that people absolutely love. There is an installed base of people and they get satisfaction rates of 99%”.
“It’s an extraordinary business. But I do want to emphasize that in his own way-a different way- Tim Cook is- we see a lot of managers and you are looking at two great ones both ends here”, Buffet continued before he compared Cook to his cofounder and ex CEO Steve Jobs, it is about two men with different potential.
Comparing them Buffet says that Cook “had handled this business so well. He could not do what Steve Jobs obviously could do on terms of creation, but Steve Jobs couldn’t really do, I think, what Tim Cook did in many respects”.
Also, in the meeting, the Berkshire vice president, Charlie Munger, offered further praises for the new tech field in general, but he warned that the antimonopolistic pressures against American and European companies could hold their development back. Neither Munger nor Buffet showed any worries about the tech giants being too big.
As far as the selling of the Berkshire Apple shares is concerned, Buffet said that he had sold some shares in 2020, but the shareholders are still seeing the rise of their percentage because Berkshire bought their shares.
Buffet also admitted that the sale “was probably a mistake”, before he pointed out that Munger had informed him with his “usual discreet way” that it had been a wrong step.
Berkshire Hathaway owns today the 5,3% of Apple and has invested almost 36 billion dollars in the company. Based on the market capitalization since the 1st of May, this is equal to shares that are worth 117 billion dollars.
The praises of Warren Buffet for Tim Cook could be perceived by somebody like Bill Gates as degrading for his inexistence as a real creator. Even with its leader dead Apple is still the absolute creator. The generator of Technology. And this characterization would be appropriate for Tim Cook from now on. On the other hand, Bill Gates is still getting rich in the familiar way: The game of the viruses.
In this game that he feels invincible and invulnerable, he did not take into consideration the human factor that knows him profoundly: His wife Melinda Gates.
The Clockwork Orange Times raises for one more time the question:
Why has Melinda Gates divorced Bill Gates?
Why now?
