“I have had just about enough of Microsoft. I’ve had it with rebooting my notebook and my desktop constantly because my applications crawl to a halt. I’ve had it with reformatting my drives every few months to get rid of all the stuff that accumulates on them. I’ve had it with dysfunctional bloatware, inelegantly designed and inefficiently coded. I’ve had it with viruses and worms and Trojan horses and spyware and all the other rubbish that Microsoft lets in,” Graeme Philipson writes for The Sydney Morning Herald. “In a move that will delight many readers of this column, I am taking the plunge and going Apple Macintosh. My son has been using one for a year now, and Apple’s OS X operating system is everything Microsoft’s is not. I don’t care about Vista; I’m moving now.”
Philipson writes, “I don’t care if Bill Gates is the world’s biggest philanthropist. The pain he has inflicted on the world in the past 20 years through lousy products easily outweighs any good he has done.”
MacDailyNews Take: Hallelujah! Tell it like it is, baby!
Philipson’s rolling now, “Now that the Apple Mac is using Intel processors, and the prices are reasonable, and the inter-operability is fine, I see no reason not to switch. I can always run Windows if I want, though my intention is to avoid Microsoft whenever possible. Apple is as arrogant as Microsoft but at least its stuff works as advertised.”
MacDailyNews Take: It’s not arrogance if you can back it up.
Philipson continues, “The world is changing and Microsoft is not changing with it. It has become too big, with all the problems of inertia. Its enormous installed base brings with it the massive disadvantage of having to adapt while staying the same. It may prove an impossible task. The many delays in Vista, the next version of the Windows operating system, have become and industry joke. It is years late and there is no guarantee it will be ready when Microsoft says, which is late this year or early next year. Gartner consultants are already predicting further delays.”
“But the real threat to Microsoft is not unhappy users boycotting its products. It is that its business model is under threat. It’s very reason for existence is being eroded. Bill Gates’ vision was a computer on every desk, and Microsoft products on every computer. He achieved his ambition, which brought him wealth unimaginable. But now the world of computer applications is moving off the desktop and on to the internet,” Philipson writes. “Information, and information technology, is moving beyond the era of discrete desktop computers towards a supernet of interlinked devices and mini-applications. Microsoft doesn’t play there, try as it might. Google does. So does Apple. The world is changing, and so am I. I will report back on my Macintosh experience in a future column.”
Full article, highly recommended, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Stephen J” and “cluster8” for the heads up.]
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I got my wife a mini a year ago, and now she’s a bigger Mac freak than I am (Mac user since 1991), coming from 7 years of using Windows at work.
The more converts, the better.
To save all the PC trolls the bother let me say it for them:
(deep breath)
This guy is an idiot I’ve used Windows for years and never had a virus or spyware or a trojan you just have to know what you are doing this guy is obviously stupid because you should learn how to maintain your computer otherwise you don’t deserve to own one all you macintosh owners are stupid because the computer does it all for you and it’s just a toy not a real computer like the one I built last week that cost me $12.00 and is way quicker than anything coming out of Apple.
(another deep breath)
Note that the above is just what will be said later on down in the comments, but spelt better (commas and full stop notwithstanding).
Slowly, slowly, slowly… Microsoft will fall.
Philipson writes, “I don’t care if Bill Gates is the world’s biggest philanthropist. The pain he has inflicted on the world in the past 20 years through lousy products easily outweighs any good he has done.”
I think I know some people in Ghana that would disagree.
Still, it’s good that the guy came to the Mac.
gagravaar:
“the computer does it all for you”
You just defeated your own argument.
Imbecile
Yes. And people who cannot do all their own car repairs or surgery should not be allowed to drive, or live.
Riiiiight.
I love this article because he describes the trend against M$ well: erosion. Good times, good times!
Come trolls! Come one and all!
SPELT??
Dirty Pierre le Punk:
gagravaar was trying to be funny.
Imbecile
Ron-
Yes, “spelt” is also an accepted past-tense for “spell.”
Many things in Life do start down under….
ron:
spelt 1 chiefly Brit. past and past participle of spell 1 .
-from Apple Dictionary
Who else do I need to defend?
Dirty Pierre,
Uhm, didn’t you notice that Gagravaar’s note that he was being facetious? Who’s the imbecile?
The “people in Ghana” might not care that the money they’ve received is from ill-gotten gains, but, in a perfect world, they should. Certainly those of us who are more fortunate should have the energy to care.
Gates made his money getting lucky, screwing people left and right, and then by illegally leveraging a monopoly. For this, Time Rag names him Man of the Year? Bullshit.
“Do not buy Microsoft software because Microsoft is not an ethical company… Do not buy Microsoft software because Microsoft lies… Forget what Steve Jobs feels he needs to say about Microsoft in public and do what he most probably feels in private; do not buy Microsoft software… And no Microsoft keyboards or mice, either… Enough Mac users deciding to go Microsoft-free can put a nice ding in Microsoft, but even if Microsoft wouldn’t feel any pain, at least you’d be doing the right thing.”
From: Mac users should not buy Microsoft software (or hardware) – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, 5/16/03
Speaking of Windows rebooting:
Last week I bought my brother-in-law a new 30GB iPod for a graduation present… the start of his 3d career!
Anyway, our intention was to spend a morning of me teaching him about iTunes and the iPod and to rip some of his favorite music… Johnny A, Susana Baca and the Beatles to start.
Their computer, a newish Dell, had to be rebooted EVERY time we put in a different CD! Apparently, the Dell needed to be upgraded to Service Pack 2 in order for Windows to recognize and mount new media, ANY media… even CompactFlash and SD memory cards! HUH? That makes the thing barely usable as far as I’m concerned! My sister is a programmer and interface designer, so she knows how to make Windows work… apparently.
needless to say, my Bro-in-law LOVES his new iPod and my sister even ran out to get one for herself… and guess what? Without Service pack 2 installed, her new ipod shuffle is invisible to her Dell
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
I had to bite my tongue so hard that blood trickled down my chin!
Hey, I was just thinking – we could write a simple piece of software that helps ease switching for Windows die hards. First, it’s an integrated anti-spyware, anti-virus and disk defragementation utility that must be run periodically.
In the background it accumulates four variables pseudorandomly called fragmentation that increases based on writes to the disk, spyware that increases based on installed application growth, viruses that increases based on internet use and glitches that increases simply based on up time. Running the three utilities will decrease three of the varaibles, but glitches can only be cleared by rebooting.
As the numbers get larger and larger, the system will respond worse and worse. Additionally, certain things could be emulated – for example, when viruses get high, random reboots occur, applications quit, and weird messages appear on screen.
I think it would make some users feel right at home!
A new power is rising… it’s victory is at hand.
Thankyou KenC & little man for seeing the joke.
To garbagegravaar
“This guy is obviously stupid because you should learn how to maintain your computer”
It is quite the opposite; you buy a computer to use it, not to maintain it. If you have to spend hundreds of dollars to keep you computer protected you are the stupid because Mac user do not throw their money and time to the trash as you do. If this is a contest of who is the most stupid of all windows user, congratulations, you’re the winner because you are so ignorant about what computers are for, that you even publish it. Congratulations.
LOL Ron, “SPELT?”
Excuse me Africa more than anyone havs suffered at the hands of Microsoft many a report has critised the large dominant tech companies (as they did the drug companies using similar tactics) for their attitude towards that continent and the stranglehold over any attempt to offer them decent and relatively cheap computer technology. Giving a litttle back of that he has mugged them for in the first place is no more than a sick joke. And he gets credit for it to boot. A sick world we live in and at last at least Graeme Philipson understands something of the truth of this matter. Shame that so few others do.
Anyone else noticed how everyone is saying how macs are cheaper now they use intel, except – most prices actually increased :s lol, shows that they are actually only now checkibng out macs and they believed the ‘macs are more expensive’ crap that used to go about
This post is too funny. Too bad some people didn’t get the fact that you were joking.
😀
On a serious note, I have a friend who runs multiple anti-virus and anti-spyware programs and, during routine scans, those programs STILL find malware. He is extremely conscious about maintaining his machines. Amazing the crap that Windows really is.
“To save all the PC trolls the bother let me say it for them:
(deep breath)
This guy is an idiot I’ve used Windows for years and never had a virus or spyware or a trojan you just have to know what you are doing this guy is obviously stupid because you should learn how to maintain your computer otherwise you don’t deserve to own one all you macintosh owners are stupid because the computer does it all for you and it’s just a toy not a real computer like the one I built last week that cost me $12.00 and is way quicker than anything coming out of Apple.
(another deep breath)
Note that the above is just what will be said later on down in the comments, but spelt better (commas and full stop notwithstanding).”
Okay, everyone that’s honestly bashing gagravaar: you’re stupid. Look up the words “sarcasm” and “facetious” and then carefully re-read his post.
gagravaar …. very funny comment … especially like the one deep breath and run on sentence to the finish … can’t figure out how some readers would think you were being serious … thanks … I enjoyed it …
gagravaar I thought your comment was quite clever. I guess irony eludes some people.
Oh well, rock on!
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Critical reading is obviously not taught in school anymore. It’s amazing how many posters completely misread gagravaar’s post.
Sarcasm is an effective form of communication. Unfortunately, many people cannot read past the words to understand the mind of the author.
A big thank you to MDN for running this story. And now for a clarification.
“This guy is an idiot I’ve used Windows for years and never had a virus or spyware or a trojan you just have to know what you are doing this guy is obviously stupid.”
Dear Gagravaar,
Obviously you’re not an avid reader of the Sydney Morning Herald’s business I.T. section. Graeme Philipson writes their Perspectives section and is their most senior writer on information technology.
Some years ago he made certain predictions for the twenty first century. One of these predictions was the for the demise of Apple. It was the late nineties and everyone was waiting for a buyout or worse.
Some years later he did a huge mea culpa and said that his prediction was wrong. While so many journalists write about something and blithely forget that they might have been wrong. Not Philipson. He bit the bullet and apologised.
Likewise, in some of his columns he recounts the early days of computing that is, this guy’s been around for a long while. I’d have to say that you wouldn’t have found a more knowledgeable and committed windows journalist in the whole of Sydney (a city of 5 million people), possibly in Australia. Stupid he isn’t. As for your comment about Philipson being an idiot it’s obvious you’ve been admiring yourself in the mirror for too long.
So you haven’t had any problems with windows, good for you. It’s obvious you’ve had a unique windows experience. Likewise all those I.T. writers criticising Microsoft are also stupid idiots. It’s also obvious that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft are also stupid idiots because they’ve been spending tens of millions of dollars trying to make the windows operating system more secure.
So mate, please, move away from that mirror so you can get a real perspective on the world. You owe it to yourself. And while you’re at it, maybe you should write a book on how to keep the windows’ operating system secure. I’m sure it would be a best seller…just look for it in the fiction section of any good bookshop.
I don’t believe it, I just flamed this guy.
P.S. When Philipson apologised for his mistaken prediction on Apple’s demise I felt real good. When I read his piece at breakfast I swear I saw pigs flying past, that was after I wiped up the mess from spraying my Weetbix all over the kitchen table. Wow, things are really beginning to change.
Even funnier is that even after numerous explanations that gagravaar’s comment was sarcastic, people are still getting angry and defending the Mac.
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Uh, um, touche?
As I said before, people, you don’t necessarily have to “think different” – JUST THINK (period).
“…it’s just a toy not a real computer like the one I built last week that cost me $12.00 and is way quicker than anything coming out of Apple.”
Oh yeah, well my $1 solar powered calculator can crunch numbers way faster than your $12 machine. Hah!
if you build it, they will come (to Mac)
I’m a switcher… until two weeks ago I used a Compaq laptop, which was slowly self-destructing. It took almost good five minutes (no, I’m not kidding) to boot fully and the USB ports had given up the ghost long ago, amongst other problems. Then, I got a 15″ MacBook Pro. Talk about day and night… it boots and wakes from “sleep” super fast, it’s recognized a printer I was sure I’d need drivers for, I transferred some pictures and uploaded them to Flickr in no time. And, while I think it’s nice option to have, I have zero intention of using Bootcamp and polluting my Mac with Windows.
bikersrule:
A question to you: Did you read all the posts that preceded yours before you posted your Gagravaar flame? Obviously not, since it had already been pointed out that Gagravaar was being sarcastic…
Unbelievable.
Gagravaar posted some OBVIOUS sarcasm parodying the typical flamer and then a bunch of nitwits <strike>read</strike> skimmed and reacted to in a knee jerk fashion.
People, if you can (I’m not hopeful), slow down and actually read a post if you are going to reply to it.
Or do what you want and look like fools, your choice.
Clearly the sarcasm gene has skipped an entire generation.
However, bikersrule, that was good back history on Philipson. Thanks for that part of your ill conceived rant.
Gagravaar,
Sir, I would like to purchase your $12.00 computers in volume. Contact me at 555-788-2411. My business Mastercard number is: 5105 1051 0510 5100 exp 13/2010. Send them to 1312 Spring Ave, Boston Massachusetts 23411
Thank you!
People keep getting angry because they don’t take the time to read all the posts. They are in too much of a hurry to let us all read the words of their wisdom!
Hello! Is anybody reading this, Ah bugger, why bother!
Mr. Reee,
If your Windows expert sister was running XP without SP2 loaded, she is not much of a Windows expert.
With SP2, Windows is still a pain in the ass but it is actually useable, as long as you are running a complete suite of anti-malware software and you are behind a hardware firewall. They never add that stuff to the price of their $399 computers, do they.
It is 20 after one tomorrow morning in Australia right now.
bikersrule probably was tired and has since gone to bed.
Give him a break.
I love how now that Macs are using Intel cheaps they are suddenly more affordable even though they are actually a couple hundred dollars more and have slower chips in them. These writers are on crack. It’s great that they now think of Macs as reasonably priced, but they are on crack and haven’t paid much attention to actual prices.
http://www.g-zus.net/
Big Al,
You’re right about the cheaped-out $299 Dell Box.
The amusing/amazing thing is that my sister, who IS pretty expert with Windows, is actually afraid to “do anything” to her computer that might kill it. That includes loading suspect software packages, like Service Pack 2.
In fact, when I visit her house, I’m warned NOT to connect my PowerBook to her cable modem (because for some reason it screws up her network config, EVEN if I shut down her WinBox!) OR to load ANY software onto her machine… something EVIL like FireFox… for fear of killing it.
I LOVE my Macs… FEAR never enters my mind!
Sheesh sis, get a Mac ferchristsakes!
G-zuz, I think the tech writers you mention are actually LOOKING at the SPECS for a change and NOT the sticker price.
When you factor in the quality and hardware configs of Macs: Ports (USB, FireWire, Fast Ethernet), Airport, Bluetooth, Audio In/Out, Monitor Spanning, etc…. THEN you add in Mac OS X, rock-solid and virus-free AND the iLife suite and Macs are pretty damn compelling compared to a COMPARABLy configured PC. Don’t try to compare bare bones $299 DOSBoxes in those print add, o’d bet the writers don’t either
BTW: Funny site G-zuz.
There’s an OLD one you missed, my FAVORITE bumper sticker… EVER:
Jesus is Coming…
Listen for the SCREAM!
Some of you people scare me. You STILL don’t get the joke Gagravaar posted. Double DUH! You’re all making me feel extra smart today. Thanks.
MW=”big” as in BIG DUMMIES.
gagravaar, congratualtions on the post of the year. The subsequent comments attacking you have been hilarious!
I dedicate this page to gagravaar…
Gagrevare –
Hey troll don’t you even read The guy said he have viruses and all kindof problems you calling him a liar? just because you spend all a yer waking life running av you think thats ok I bet you didnt even read teh article did you. Cant you read No cause your too busy removing malware. Jeez get outa here with that trash.
The similarities are kind of scary, no? I could barely keep straight in my head which side I was writing for.
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Majikthize:
Nice!
Wow, I’m really going to use those <sarcasm> quotes next time!
Sad, innit?
MacDailyNews Take: It’s not arrogance if you can back it up.
No, it is still arrogance. Apple does things its way and if you don’t like it you can go use Windows or Linux. That they make a superior product does not mean they make a perfect product – and even making a perfect product would not mean they are not arrogant.
And, don’t think for a moment that said arrogance stops with Steve Jobs. MDN has shown itself arrogant in quite a few “Takes”. Those who’ve dared pen criticisms of anything Mac – particularly mistaken or questionable ones – have accused the Mac Faithful of being arrogant, as well as ill-mannered and hot blooded and generally RUDE.
Don’t try to deny it or justify it. “The first step to recovery is acceptance.” Recognize this for what it is – a flaw – and try to work through it. I’m still working on it, myself.
That would be “have BEEN accused BY the Mac Faithful”, right?
Majikthize said: That would be “have BEEN accused BY the Mac Faithful”, right?
Not a bit of it!
A great many “Tech Pundits” have written in their articles that they anticipate a deluge of flames from Mac Fanatics every time they write anything about “anything Mac” that does not simply drool adoration.
Which doesn’t mean that the statement you suggested might not be correct, only that it did not fit my intentions. Pundits, by their very nature, tend towards arrogance. But … the Mac Faithful tend to accuse them of ignorance, stupidity, dishonesty or questionable ancestry rather than arrogance. Some of those accusations may also be true, on occasion, but that was not my point, either.
Congrats Gagravaar, that was an awesome bit of writing. I find it hard to believe that some people made the forgivable mistake of thinking you were serious. What isn’t so forgivable is how they got so bent out of shape about your obvoius sarcasm that they didn’t even read ther rest of the comments to realize their idiocy.
I think MDN needs to now run a story titled, “Gagravaar was KIDDING you ‘imbecils.'”
And nonarKitten, sadly we do have something like that. It is called Virtual Memory.
Scottie:
Welcome to the world of Mac. Love reading posts from switchers of your calibre.
bikersrule:
I must admit, I do agree with your assessment of Philipson. My only issue is that this guy has often written in the past in reference to the Mac platform, but has tended to reinforce those typical stereotypes that Windows users have – ie. Mac is a proprietry system, there is lack of choice, thats its expensive etc, etc. If he hasnt said this explicitly, certainly his language leaves the casual reader with this impression. Reading his column has always left me with a sense that he just doesnt quite ‘get it’ – like he has dipped his toe in, but never had the guts to jump in and immerse himself. Until he has done this – and I guess we might soon see – he, like most Windows writers, are not really in a position to cast aspersions on the platform. Long live Apple!
I saved 2 souls this year thusfar
I can’t believe someone actually eats Weetabix (bikersrule) and believes pigs fly.
I think I’m going to buy more shares of penny stocks today.
DLMeyer –
Gotcha. I can see now how that sentence could work both ways. Thanks for clarifying…nicely.
gagravaar, great job! Don’t EVER put any <sarcasm> tags in your posts. This way, we can watch the idiots shine in their moment of glory. lol
Dear cluster8,
I totally agree with your sentiments. I also think he was doing exactly what we are doing…defending a platform and putting the other side down. I look forward to his first mac article.
Dear gzero,
I did read ALL the other posts but when you call a senior journalist stupid and an idiot my blood boils. You can be sarcastic without being insulting. I might also add that a fair bit of time elapsed between the writing and the posting of my points. So yes, I did read the posts up until the time I began writing my reply.
My point is that when a guy like Philipson becomes a switcher something big is happening.
Enough is enough. It’s 3.00 A.M. and I’ve finished those pesky reports. Good night all. Tuesday was a good day and I’m sure all those across the dateline will agree on that.
After all is said and done, point still missed. I’m not surprised. Total IQ of this thread = -5.
I know of no one, and I mean NO ONE, that doesn’t suffer with Windows computers, me included up to 3 years ago when I switched. People simply expect to suffer with Windows. It’s a given. It’s time for people to wake up and try something new, something refreshing, something dazzling, something that FREAKING WORKS!!! It is my sincere hope that Mac market share makes leaps and bounds. Are you ready for the ride? I am!!!
Bikersrule… and all you other blind, non-comprehensive readers… The 2nd post on this forum/thread was a JOKE!! Gagravaar wrote a hilarious SPOOF (if you don’t know what this means, look it up..) At least you came back to respond, biker… but I see you still failed to ‘get it.’ Sad indeed, when folks on the same side of things can’t even communicate, thus wind up fighting each other. Slow down, people. READ, PROCESS, CONSIDER carefully what you may have to say, then at least if you still don’t grasp simple things, we can all know how smart you really are. It’s up to you.
MDN “magic word = idea” As in, it’s always a good idea to think before you open your mouth.
i’m with macaday, i nominate gagravaar’s post for post of the year. i am so amazed at how rabid some of these mac goofs are… they’re so ready to jump and bite at anything that sounds REMOTELY anti-mac that they don’t even bother to read anything else, including the first line of the post which clearly insinuates sarcasm is ahead.
oh, and good for this switcher. hope he enjoys his mac.
bikersrule, you are today’s supreme winner of The Mencia “Duh duh duh!”
MDN: you have obviously not had to deal with Apple “Support” in Asia, since ARROGANCE is the best way of describing a big part of that operation!!!
gagravaar,
Your experiment worked. You have identified all the nitwits that storm off to Dvorak, Thurrott, Enderle — whenever those revered ‘journalists’ scribble off a flamebait.
Thanks for the laugh. But would mind letting me borrow your $12 PC instruction pamphlet?
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nonarKitten:
Thats a good one! I like it. More please.
gagravaar:
Great sarcasm!
just pointed a Windows user I know to this article then told him, very calmly, that the real difference between Mac users and Windows users is just one letter: ‘n’.
Huh?
Respectfully: We are “users” of our computers, you are “nurses” of your computers. We do stuff *with* our computers, you do stuff *to* your computers. On Windows world you are mostly maintainers of Windows, looking after it to keep it at a usable level.
Let’s be honest now: How many hours I see you spend doing just that? Maintenance tasks.
Amazing, he did NOT reply.
Could it be that hell is freezing as well?
gagravaar, you’re obviously mistaken!
Many people believe that Mac users are always and only “intelligent”.
You are (or at least were) one of the people holding to this belief.
After reading many of the posts here — we can all see that you were mistaken.
Better not to try that subtle sh*t on this site. You’ll only confuse and disturb many of the posters here – and life is already difficult enough for them! Bad gagravaar – upsetting the idiots like that!
Dedicated Mac user since 1986!
Joker:
Nice one.
“Respectfully: We are “users” of our computers, you are “nurses” of your computers. We do stuff *with* our computers, you do stuff *to* your computers. On Windows world you are mostly maintainers of Windows, looking after it to keep it at a usable level. “
To cluster8 and bikersrule :
Graeme Philipson does indeed have a long IT industry history – but it’s not as Windows-centric as you might think, so it’s unfair to put him in the same boat as those critics who pontificate against Apple from a viewpoint of ignorance and are only now realising the truth. He was intimately involved with Apple years ago – like in the ’70s! Have a look at the bottom of his CV:
http://www.philipson.info/files/gpcv2005.pdf
Those of us with long memories can recall long-ago written articles in which he explained why he moved away from Apple back then. And now it’s great to see him coming back!
bikersrule, I hadn’t given up all hope on you yet since you did give us some good info on Mr. “Senior Journalist,” but now I just think you are a jerk.
>”When you call a senior journalist stupid and an idiot my blood boils.”
It is unnecessary to get on somebody’s case because they jokingly called somebody an idiot and stupid. I hate it when people can’t just admit that they mistook something and instead pick on somebody else that doesn’t deserve it. You could have picked one of a bunch of people that razzed you, but instead you picked gzero, the person who’s post could be considered the politest.
And…
>”You can be sarcastic without being insulting.”
Actually you can’t.
Sarcasm – noun
The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
forum rage
I’ll wait until a columnist at some paper more important tells the world that Mac has replaced Windows. Someone at the Alice Springs News, for instance.
I don’t like Windows and I am using OS X at home.
I am a big fan of Apple product but I can’t avoid the fact that my iMac G5 (two of them) still hang sometimes when the system enter sleep mode (I must to put the system to sleep mode manually even though I set it to sleep after idling for 15 minutes, but it doesn’t work), causing me to lose my data.
The point is OS X is better than Windows, but it is not perfect.
BTW:
this philanthropist crap has got to stop. anyone with a brain knows that your accountant will tell you to become a philanthropist when you have that much money. it’s fairly simple –tax breaks! voila, instant philanthropist. when you’re worth several billion dollars you need to donate a certain percentage in order to save your money. this percentage works out to a ton of money when you’re talking about bill gates. even poor guys like jobs could be considered philanthropists with the amount they donate.