Bill Gates is also seen as a &quot;good guy&quot; because he&#x27;s spent the last decade of his life eradicating Polio in developing nations.<p>Steve btw has &quot;retarded&quot; the ebook industry, built up &quot;closed gardens&quot; across the application universe, and has prevented the iOS from ever receiving 3rd party hardware upgrades by design.<p>Bill Gates may have been ruthless ruling the 90s with Word and Windows... but even he was significantly more open than Apple ever was with their iPhone.