"Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not."

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Source: Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated by Todd Bishop, www.geekwire.com. October 27, 2011.

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Bill Gates is a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist known for co-founding Microsoft and his significant contributions to global health and education.

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