During a computer fair (Comdex), Bill Gates compared the computer industry with automotive stating:
- “If General Motors had improved as much technology as the computer industry, cars would behave now u $ s 25 to consume one gallon every 1000 miles.”
GM’s response was immediate:
- Certainly, but …
* Would you like your car to stopped twice a day?
* Whenever the divinding lines were repainted on the road you would have to change cars.
* From time to time, in full highway, your car will stop for no apparent reason, and you should accept it, put it back up and continue.
* From time to time, making a move, your car would stop and you should reinstall the engine. In a somewhat surprising way, you also accept it.
* It could not be more than one person at a time in your car, unless you buy “CocheNT.” But then, you should purchase separate seats.
* Apple would manufacture a car would work with solar energy, reliable, five times faster, twice as easy to drive. But one official at 5% of the roads.
* The Macintosh car owners add upgrades to their cars … Microsoft, which would make them slower.
* The lights of the oil, gas and alternator would be replaced by a unique “general error of the car.”
* New seats would force everyone to have the same size ass.
* The airbag system warn “Are you sure?” Before opening.
* In case of accident you would not know what has happened.