Bill Gates, the PS3 never having a GFX advantage, and Steve Jobs
No, we don’t find it shocking when execs trash talk products made by the competition. For instance, take Bill Gates and his statements made to a small group of reporters after his speech at the CES about the PS3. Mercury News has an report on it and it claims that Bill said that Sony has no advantage in graphics at all. Here’s the paragraph in the report:
He said that Sony had no advantage in graphics at all. He said Sony started earlier but “burned a year” trying to make the Cell processor do graphics functions. When it didn’t work, Sony went to a fallback plan by tapping Nvidia for the graphics chip at the last minute. It also didn’t have embedded DRAM or unified memory. The Xbox 360 game developers would always be a year ahead of Sony on the learning curve in taking advantage of the system. As a result, Gates said that Sony would never have games that look better than Microsoft. He said that either system, limited to 512 megabytes of memory, would not likely exploit HD resolutions beyond 720p. If you go to 1080p, he said, you will have to give up something.
Nothing shocking there. Bill Gates is doing what he’s supposed to do. He’s selling the 360. It’s his baby. It’s his job. That, and he’s comparing the 360 to the competition: The PS3. Nothing here that makes you raise eyebrows.
When execs go out of their way though to trash talk products they aren’t directly competing with, we do get a bit confused (well, some of us were). Comparing something that is essentially a multi-functional phone to a multi-functional gaming device? Definite eyebrow raiser. This is why we find it funny that in the same A-E report, Gates manages to find a way to trash talk Jobs. Here’s how it went:
…And of course Microsoft announced in December that movie downloading is an option on the Xbox 360.
He said the Xbox 360 would be a high-end set-top and wouldn’t really compete with Cisco or Motorola set-top boxes. And he noted that Apple doesn’t necessarily have the best relationships with companies such as phone service providers as Microsoft does. So its iTV service may not be as expansive as anything Microsoft does with its partners.
“Jobs always says he doesn’t like to go through someone else’s orifice,” he said.
Via Mercury News
No, we don’t find it shocking when execs trash talk products made by the competition. For instance, take Bill Gates and his statements made to a small group of reporters after his speech at the CES about the PS3. Mercury News has an report on it and it claims that Bill said that Sony has no advantage in graphics at all. Here’s the paragraph in the report:
He said that Sony had no advantage in graphics at all. He said Sony started earlier but “burned a year” trying to make the Cell processor do graphics functions. When it didn’t work, Sony went to a fallback plan by tapping Nvidia for the graphics chip at the last minute. It also didn’t have embedded DRAM or unified memory. The Xbox 360 game developers would always be a year ahead of Sony on the learning curve in taking advantage of the system. As a result, Gates said that Sony would never have games that look better than Microsoft. He said that either system, limited to 512 megabytes of memory, would not likely exploit HD resolutions beyond 720p. If you go to 1080p, he said, you will have to give up something.
Nothing shocking there. Bill Gates is doing what he’s supposed to do. He’s selling the 360. It’s his baby. It’s his job. That, and he’s comparing the 360 to the competition: The PS3. Nothing here that makes you raise eyebrows.
When execs go out of their way though to trash talk products they aren’t directly competing with, we do get a bit confused (well, some of us were). Comparing something that is essentially a multi-functional phone to a multi-functional gaming device? Definite eyebrow raiser. This is why we find it funny that in the same A-E report, Gates manages to find a way to trash talk Jobs. Here’s how it went:
…And of course Microsoft announced in December that movie downloading is an option on the Xbox 360.
He said the Xbox 360 would be a high-end set-top and wouldn’t really compete with Cisco or Motorola set-top boxes. And he noted that Apple doesn’t necessarily have the best relationships with companies such as phone service providers as Microsoft does. So its iTV service may not be as expansive as anything Microsoft does with its partners.
“Jobs always says he doesn’t like to go through someone else’s orifice,” he said.
Via Mercury News
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