- The Clubhouse app hosted another member of the tech industry for an interview in recent days – this time with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
- In a discussion hosted by journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, Gates talked about everything from the coronavirus pandemic to COVID vaccines and Apple Car rumors.
- Gates also explained why he prefers his Android phone to an iPhone.
As soon as Bill Gates entered the clubhouse for the first time this week, he was a journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin temporarily ignored some of the questions he had planned to ask about everything from the coronavirus pandemic to climate change and Gates’ new book How to avoid a climate disaster. Sorkin, on the other hand, told co-founder Microsoft that he received a lot of tweets asking for the same thing, sent from people as soon as they heard about Gates’ chat in Clubhouse, the new hot social app for iOS:
Wait, does Bill Gates have an iPhone?
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Gates admitted that he uses an Android phone every day. And, while he deals with the latest iPhones just to keep up with them, “the phone I carry happens to be Android.” Sorkin further researched this, wanting to know if it was a product of any kind of “religious” preference that Gates has between Android and iOS.
“Well, some of the Android manufacturers pre-install Microsoft software in a way that is easy for me, and they’re more flexible with how the software connects to the operating system, so that’s what I’ve become accustomed to. … Many of my friends have iPhones, so there is no purity. ”
And so began Gates Clubhouse’s chat, making him one of the most important insiders in the tech industry and the industry’s rich titans, who came to the new audio social app that everyone is talking about – and talking about. on, by the way. You can see Gates’s full chat below:
Among the highlights of the interview: Microsoft billionaire – whose personal base was at the forefront of vaccine development and the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, working with government agencies – said he had received the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine about now. a week. “It’s the only time I’ve been grateful to be an elderly person – 65 years old.”
In response, Sorkin went on to say: When will you start moving and traveling again as you did now that you have taken both doses of coronavirus vaccine?
“Well, I want to set a good example. If you are vaccinated, you can still transmit. It’s not as likely … I won’t stop wearing masks or being careful around people who haven’t been vaccinated … Only by the end of spring or summer will we reach numbers to look at. change your behavior in a significant way. ”
Furthermore:
- By the fall, Gates said he expected “all schools to be open.”
- What does he think of the much-rumored Apple Car? “Mmmm, I doubt they’ll make the same margin they do on the iPhone.”
- Use Google Search? “I am a loyal, loyal, loyal Bing user. You travel with a very snobbish crowd. You have to come here with the masses and use Bing. ”
- The last TV show he did? Netflix LUPINE, about a gentleman burglar from France who became a massive hit for the streamer.
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Andy is a reporter in Memphis, who also contributes to stores such as Fast Company and The Guardian. When not writing about technology, it can be found squatting protectively over its thriving vinyl collection, as well as for taking care of Whovianism and getting into a variety of TV shows that you probably don’t like.