Monday Fun: iPhone Banned at the Gates’… but Melinda Might Want One?
Pulling from a Melinda Gates interview with Vogue (via Geeksugar), being married to Bill, who loves the power of software, isn’t without its limitations:
There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don’t get for our kids [...] Every now and then I look at my friends and say ‘Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that iPhone’
Gizmodo imagines all sorts of iPhones secretly hidden beneath the mattresses at Casa Gates, but we imagine some fancy Minority Report-like future security that just scans people for Apple-tech coming and going. And, hey, seriously, who can blame Gates? Can we really see Steve Jobs giving his kids Zunes… or Xbox’s?
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:24 am
hahahahaha. Take that bill
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
If I had that kind of money, there would be no limit to what I’d have. “Kids, you want an iphone or a jet?” “iphone…ok it’ll be waiting inside your jet!”
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:38 pm
makes sense….he can’t very well have his family being photographed with an iphone.
She could have kept that info to herself….she kinda but her hubbie on blast.
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Lol, pretty funny. I wonder if the Gate’s kids get any flack from their friend’s who probably all walk around with iPods and iPhones. But then like was said, they might be walking around with prototype gadgets that are so cool and futuristic that everyone is jealous of them.
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Rene, please save this comment and re-read it before every post you make at TIPB:
Adding “apostrophe S” to the end of a word is not the way to make it plural.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Geez Bill. Your a flipping billionaire, let your wife buy an iPhone if she wants one!
Steve Jobs wouldn’t buy his family a Zune, for the same reason most people don’t – they suck!
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Poor Bill. All that money and he can’t buy Apple products, and he can’t buy hookers.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Yeah, there are a few things on the banned list in my house. WinMo is the only one.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
@Muero,
I’m glad that I am not the only one who gets annoyed at her grammar!
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
lol…uhm…I do believe Rene Ritchie is a guy
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
um….you know whats even more annoying? people complaining about the bloggers grammar.
If it annoys you so much start your own blog and please take all the whiners with you.
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
What’s even MORE annoying is someone criticizing a blogger and being completely WRONG. Renee meant it as possesion not plural. As in the Gates’ house. Where the apostrophe means it is the family’s house.
Smh….
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
All Gates family gets a Chrurro instead.
What to do with a Churro?
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:45 pm
WinMo is so fcking inferior to iPhone OS..
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Xbox’s is fine. As is BlackBerry’s, and Chu’s for plural form of the Chinese surname Chu. Not everyone agrees, of course, but language isn’t science and if purpre can become purple, askion and aksion can become ask and aks, and iPhone can have a mid-word capitalization, we can worry less about how I apply an apostrophe in a blog post and more about the actual story, or do we need that special form of self gratification that can only come from trying (and oft failing) to point out nits rather than discuss subject?
And yes, a dude I be. See, in proper grammatical usage, Rene is masculine, Renee is feminine, gots it? :p
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:54 pm
I would imagine an Xbox would be fine with Steve. It’s not like Apple makes a competing product.
Honestly, I tend to not even think about Microsoft that makes the Xbox as the same company as Microsoft that makes Windows.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:15 am
I’ve never owned anything made by Microsoft. If Apple went out of business, I’d just live under an old rotting bridge rather than switch. It would be less nasty.
September 11th, 2009 at 7:14 am
I think about xbox being microsoft every time I get the red ring of death. (which is three times now)