{"id":72935,"date":"2017-09-30T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/bill-gates-now-uses-an-android-phone"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:04:28","slug":"bill-gates-now-uses-an-android-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/bill-gates-now-uses-an-android-phone","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates now uses an Android phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-now-uses-an-android-phone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windows Phone has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/1\/28\/10864034\/windows-phone-is-dead\">dead for a good year now<\/a>, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has decided it\u2019s also time to move on. In an interview with <em>Fox News Sunday<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onmsft.com\/news\/bill-gates-now-uses-an-android-phone-with-lots-of-microsoft-software\">spotted by <em>On MSFT<\/em><\/a>), Gates reveals he\u2019s now using an Android phone. While Gates doesn\u2019t reveal the exact model, he does note that it has \u201ca lot of Microsoft software\u201d on it, which could suggest it\u2019s a special <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2017\/3\/30\/15121816\/samsung-galaxy-s8-microsoft-edition-features\">Microsoft Edition Samsung Galaxy S8 handset<\/a> with bundled software.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft started selling the Samsung Galaxy S8 handset in its retail stores earlier this year, and it includes apps like Office, OneDrive, Cortana, and Outlook. Any Android phone also supports these apps, but Microsoft\u2019s customized S8 does suggest the company might continue to offer this for other Android devices in the future.<\/p>\n<p>While Gates is switching to Android, he\u2019s still not interested in an iPhone. Gates famously banned iPhones and iPods at home in the past, but he does admit that Steve Jobs was a \u201cgenius\u201d in the Fox interview. Gates is still using Windows-based PCs, but he\u2019s still not switching over to an iPhone, despite the Steve Jobs praise.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/9\/26\/16365424\/bill-gates-android-phone-switch\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/9\/26\/16365424\/bill-gates-android-phone-switch<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Phone has been dead for a good year now, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has decided it\u2019s also time to move on. In an interview with Fox News Sunday (spotted by On MSFT), Gates reveals he\u2019s now using an Android phone. While Gates doesn\u2019t reveal the exact model, he does note that it has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}