Gates prefers Android over iPhone

Hyderabad: FROM politicians to businessman to common man across the globe, there are several high-profile iPhone users. However Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates prefers an Android smartphone over an Apple iPhone owing to the pre-installed Microsoft software in the Android ecosystem that makes things easy for him.

In an interview on Clubhouse, Gates said: "I actually use an Android phone. Because I want to keep track of everything, I'll often play around with iPhones, but the one I carry around happens to be Android." He further explained, "Some of the android phone manufacturers pre-install Microsoft software in a way that makes it easy for me." Gates in a subtle reference to iOS not being easily customized said about Android phones that "they are more flexible about how the software connects up with the operating system. So that's what I ended up getting used to."

Gates also said that a lot of his friends have iPhones, "so there's no purity". Gates gave this interview on the invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse. The app is currently available on Apple app store and has been downloaded more than eight million times.

The new social media app has gained immense popularity in last few months. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has too dropped in the app a couple of times.