Double dates? Surely not

Rico says that The Huffington Post has an article about the unlikeliest of buddies:

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, two titans of tech, have been friends, competitors, and colleagues. They've even gone on double-dates.
So what does Steve Jobs have to say about Microsoft's founder? We went looking, and have compiled a list of Steve Jobs' best quotes about Bill Gates.
The claws come out as Jobs challenges Gates's creativity and criticizes aspects of Microsoft's business. But the Apple CEO also softens up, likens their relationship to matrimony, and speaks fondly of the legacy Gates will leave.
In 1983, Apple hosted a dating-style game show that featured Steve Jobs as the lucky bachelor. The panel of 'suitors' consists of the day's industry leaders. Though Bill Gates, Suitor Number Three, appears to have Jobs's affections, Jobs surprises the panel and chooses all three. "During 1984," Suitor Gates says during his introduction, "Microsoft expects to get half of its revenues from Macintosh software." [Wild applause from the audience, huge grin from Bachelor Jobs.] Later, Gates says that the Macintosh, of all the machines he's ever seen, is the only one that truly captures the imagination. How could Bachelor Jobs pass that up?
In a 1994 interview, Jobs was asked how he felt about Gates's success: "How do I feel about Bill Gates getting rich off some of the ideas that we had..." Jobs wondered. "Well, you know, the goal is not to be the richest man in the cemetery. It's not my goal anyway."
In 1996, shortly before Microsoft was deemed an "abusive monopoly", Steve Jobs offered his opinion of the growing, and successful, PC giant: "I guess I am saddened, but not by Microsoft's success. I have no problem with their success, they've earned their success for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products."
In 1997, Steve Jobs offered his blunt assessment of Gates and Microsoft: "I wish Bill Gates all the best," Jobs said. "I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
At Apple's 2006 Worldwide Developer's conference, Steve Jobs dredged up old accusations that Microsoft aped the innovations made by Apple and other companies: "Our friends [at Microsoft] spend $5 billion a year on research and development," Jobs reportedly said, "And yet these days all they seem to be able to do is try and copy Google and Apple."
At a conference in 2007, Steve Jobs set the record straight regarding his relationship with Bill Gates: Although the two are business rivals, Steve Jobs joked during the event that he and Bill Gates have "kept our marriage a secret for ten years."
In 2007, Jobs and Gates took the stage for the first time in over twenty years. The two CEOs were cordial, even complimentary during the conference. In response to a question about Gates's legacy, Jobs said: "I think the world’s a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn’t to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?"

Rico says that, as usual, he couldn't agree more. But there's the other side of the coin, too, of course:

Bill Gates praised Steve Jobs indirectly in 1984 (the year Apple introduced the Macintosh ), saying: "To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new, and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've seen, is the only one that meets that standard."
"What I can’t figure out," Gates asked in a 1998 interview, "is why Steve Jobs is even trying to be the CEO of Apple? He knows he can’t win.” At the time, Microsoft was a $250-billion company, while Apple, Inc. was worth $6 billion, even after Microsoft had given $150 million to Apple in 1997.
Gates does occasionally have glowing things to say about Steve Jobs: "He's done a fantastic job," Gates said of Jobs' reign at Apple, adding, "Of all the leaders in the industry that I've worked with, he showed more inspiration and he saved the company."
Bill Gates said in 2007: "What Steve’s done is quite phenomenal and, if you look back to 1977, that Apple II computer, the idea that it would be a mass-market machine, you know, the bet that was made there by Apple uniquely– there were other people with products, but the idea that this could be an incredible empowering phenomenon, Apple pursued that dream."
When asked what he learned by watching Steve Jobs, Gates said: "I wish I had Steve's taste. In people and product. It's magical. In that case. Wow."
In 2008, Gates suggested that Apple had a narrower scope than Microsoft. "Apple has done a very good job on usability. You have to compliment them on that," he said, adding, "But their agenda is not as broad as ours, so perhaps the fact that they focus in and polish those things well; certainly we need to do that as well or better than they do."
While Steve Jobs maintains that the iPad is Apple's "most important" and "revolutionary" product, reportedly calling it "the most important thing I've ever done", Bill Gates has a slightly different opinion. In an interview with Phil Bronstein, Gates was asked if he liked the iPad. Gates' response: "It's okay."
Bill Gates' wife Melinda once said that her children don't use iPods or iPhones: "There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household, but iPods and iPhones are two things that we don't get for our kids," she asserted.

Rico says that there are a lot of things that Gates 'doesn't get', and iPods and iPhones are just two of them...