Bill Gates answered it is phenomenal, unbelievable, fantastic. Wait a minute, the question was about... iPod!

“It’s a disk with music on it. There  are things that happen in these markets were get enough things together–like Windows, Word and Excel. You get something good enough and the market latches onto it and you get momentum within a category. Apple did enough things right to create an incredible phenomenon in a category.”

At this point I thought he must have a dozen words like "fantastic, phenomenal" to also use when he gets asked about Zune. But when asked about Zune,  he cited the wireless capabilities for sharing playlists and music—which he called connected entertainment - as a unique feature, but allowed that Apple will likely copy the features. “It’s a growing market and Apple done very well. We can get some of new users, people switching, we can get quite a mixture of those. We have to excite people about the concept."