Steve Jobs kept Bill Gates's letter at the end of his life

In the article on the Telegraph, Bill Gates revealed that he wrote a letter to Steve Jobs, and Jobs kept the letter with him when he died.

The long and turbulent relationship of two famous men - Bill Gates and Steve Jobs - is mentioned in Walter Isaacson's biography ' Steve Jobs ', however, Gates always talks very little about those discord and the bond between the two. Talking about the late Apple CEO, Bill Gates said: ' Steve Jobs is an amazing genius, has contributed significantly to my field. We had periods, like the early days of the Macintosh computer, when we had more people working with Macintosh than they were. And then we became rivals. The personal computer I have developed has a market much larger than Apple for the past five or six years, when Steve did really well with the Mac, the iPhone and iPad were even particularly good. It is an achievement, and we enjoy each other's work. 'Remembrance, even though it has praised the opponent, has a reminder of Gates' dominance, more polite than all the Jobs comments ever made in his life. Gates continued: ' He (Jobs) spent a lot of time competing with me. Sometimes Steve says harsh things about me. 'In Jobs's view, his opponent is' unimaginative ', ' narrow vision ' and derivative.

The atmosphere changed in 2007 when Gates left Microsoft, and his wife founded the ' Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ' fund. ' Steve Jobs and I held the event together, and he couldn't be more kind . I had a peaceful time with him last year .' A few months before Jobs died, Gates visited Jobs, ' spending a lot of time remembering and talking about the future. 'Before Jobs's impending death, Gates wrote to Jobs:' I told Jobs how to make him feel good about what he had done and his company built. I write about Jobs's children . '

Gates thinks it is not a gesture of reconciliation, because ' There is no need to create peace. We are not in any war. We create great products, and competition is always a positive thing. There is no reason for forgiveness . ' After Jobs's death, Gates received a call from Jobs's wife, Laurene. ' She said:' Look, the biography does not draw a picture of the mutual respect you have. Jobs appreciated the letter and held it to his bed.