"Steve Jobs has done a fantastic job," Gates said, "This Week" anchor Christiane Amanpour. "If you think about what is best in today's world of the Internet, think of the personal computer phone, how to manage the information is so great."
In the biography "Steve Jobs" author Walter Isaacson quoted Jobs gates saying: "Bill is generally uninspired and has never invented anything, so I think it's more comfortable now in the technology, the open philanthropy stealing ideas of others .. "
See Steve Jobs over the years
"In the 30 years we have worked together, you know, he says nice things about me, and told me a lot of difficult things," Gates said, reflect on their work together in the first Macintosh software team. "We must work together. We pushed each other, as well as competitors. None of this bothers me not at all."
Gates said the frustration of dealing with it have been caused by the commercial success of Microsoft and Apple struggled for years before being dominant in the last ten years.
"He met several times to Apple, the fact that their products so as to crude prices, which literally could not stay on the market," said Gates. "The fact that it successfully in mass production, you know, including a range of prices because of the way we work with several companies, is difficult."
"And so that ... many times, he was harassed, I have a good feeling, and that they are the bad guys, you know, very understandable," said Gates.