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Melinda Keen on iPhone; Bill Says No

Apple's wares illegal in Gates household

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 3, 2009 2:07 PM CST

(Newser) – Apple products are banned in the Gates home, the New York Post reports—but Melinda “wouldn’t mind” picking up an iPhone, she told Vogue. There isn’t much “on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids,” she said. But “every now and then I look at my friends and say, 'Ooh, I wouldn't mind having that iPhone.’”

Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda French Gates gestures while speaking during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan 31, 2009.
Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda French Gates gestures while speaking during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan 31, 2009.   (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Co-Chairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, Bill Gates, right, and Melinda Gates, leave after a media conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday Jan 30, 2009.
Co-Chairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, Bill Gates, right, and Melinda Gates, leave after a media conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday Jan 30, 2009.   (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, an Apple customer uses an Apple iPhone at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif. Apple releases quarterly earnings report at the close of the market Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009.
In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, an Apple customer uses an Apple iPhone at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif. Apple releases quarterly earnings report at the close of the market Wednesday, Jan. 21,...   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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JonmarkP
Apr 26, 2009 1:51 AM CDT
Gee, you'd think Melinda would have enough of an allowance to buy an iPhone whether Bill approved or not. Then she'd be stuck with AT&T, and find out it's like to get lousy service no matter WHO you are!
Guest
Mar 4, 2009 4:27 AM CST
Let's bring those amazing Japanese phones here! Oh wait, our infrastructure's too far behind...
Rob
Mar 3, 2009 3:32 AM CST
Japanese companies are giving away the iPhone because it is so far behind on technology and limited in what it does have. We need to stop sticking Apple on high.
 

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