Melinda Gates craves an iPhone. That may not be quite enough to ask for a divorce for Bill Gates, but I'm guessing it's not something she'd want to mention over dinner. Too bad it's now in the pages of a national magazine.
In an interview with Vogue Magazine this month, Gates, the co-chair and trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, noted that in order to keep their kids grounded, they allow as many of the same experiences as regular kids as they can. But the one thing they do not allow is the use of Apple’s iPod or iPhone players. Because that would be a nightmare PR problem and would likely make Dad mad.
She, however, admits to an occasional thought about the device: "Every now and then I look at my friends and say 'Ooh, I wouldn't mind having that iPhone'."
I think it's much more likely that there are several iPhone on the premises of the Gates household, but they're more likely being skinned in an underground lab for design research or used as chew toys for the dogs.
The full story can be read here, which mentions the couple's plans about graver topics than cell phones, including slowing down the poverty and malaria epidemics.
