PC vs. Mac / Microsoft vs. Apple

The elders of the church are stepping down and retiring to their homes, one heavily guarded outside Redmond Washington and one in a quite Palo Alto California neighborhood. They have always seemed to be rivals split by business ethics and ideas of success which led them to head two of the biggest and greatest computer companies / software manufacturers that this world has ever seen.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both have 9 characters in their name, they created the computer scene roughly at the same time and they are leaving their perspective companies roughly at the same time. Jobs has not left yet, but Gates retired from CEO of Microsoft at the first of the year with little publicity or fan fair.