Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Inside the rivalry

On May 30, 2007, two of America's most brilliant minds, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, sat down for a joint interview at the All Things Digital Conference. The two pioneers of the computer world spoke fondly of the other's contribution to technology. But what preceded this historic exchange was more than three decades of rocky collaborations and rivalry. Gates and Jobs had battled to dominate a new age and, in the process, revolutionised billions of lives. "Though they never worked in the same company, they created an industry together, and we have a hippie and a nerd ... With Bill, it was always about the money. With Steve ... money was nice, but it was never about the money. And so that made them black and white. They were very, very different people," says journalist Robert Cringely, who worked with Gates and Jobs in the late-1970s.