Gates playing God…

So most of us are familiar with creation, and how it is we as man came to be. God created Adam and Eve and then that crazy woman decided to listen to a talking snake and eat an apple from the tree, after which she did the woman thing and told Adam if he didn’t eat from it, no sex for weeks.  Long story short, they got thrown out of the garden for being disobedient and now here we are years later, cursed with sin and inherently evil.  I really hope that this isn’t the way Bill Gates feels, else his kids are in for years of pain.

According to a recent article on just about every website known to man, Bill Gates and his wife, do not allow their children to own anything Apple, specifically iPhones and iPods.  

“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.”

Ok, I know that Steve Jobs is probably the single greatest competitor of Bill Gates, but doesn’t something like this beg the question of is bill scared?  To start, he no longer is the CEO of the company, and while he may be a symbol of the company, his children choosing to own whatever they want shouldn’t do a damn thing to his rep.  I mean Microsoft used Apple computers and Apple generated images to render those failures commercials of “I’m a PC and my computer sucks“, so what is the big deal with his kids owning the single greatest MP3 machine or cell phone?

I think poor Gates is afraid.  Maybe he is starting to come to terms with the fact that Macs work better than PCs and that the OS Macs use is a million time more stable than the garbage that took them five years to fail on.  Maybe it was the below image, which shows Safari to be a far superior web browser than Microsoft’s beloved Internet Explorer.Wait…say what?  These are the results based on use from a PC?  Makes me laugh.  Takes me back to when PC World wrote an article on the MacBook Pro and said that Vista ran the best on a MacBook Pro.  I have to laugh.

I can sit here for hours and post a 20 page paper on arguments, but I am not going too.  I’ll just mention things like Steve Ballmer laughing at the iPhone when it first came out and saying it was a joke, only to be wrong just months later when the the iPhone took 40% of all smartphone sales in a 3 month period after its release.  He was wrong even after that when the iPhone reached and passed its 10 million unit goal long before the end of 2008.  Maybe the App Store, where over 300 million apps were downloaded in the first month, is evidence to how wrong he is.  I even remember hearing him say the App Store was a joke and that no one would make money off of it.  Tell that the developer of Trism, who made $250,000 in the first three months of his apps release.

Bottom line, PCs suck, Macs rule.  If Gates wants to keep his kids from eating the Apple, then I hope he doesn’t throw them out of the house for choosing what they want.  Granted, in the long run, I like what ended up happening with God, I get free will, and happily choose to serve Him, but I think Gates might be making a mistake…..doesn’t he know God runs Mac OSX?