Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iPhone Gates said that he often plays around with iPhones, "but the one I carry around happens to be Android" Monday March 1, 2021 10:29 AM, IANS New Delhi: Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates prefers an Android smartphone over an Apple iPhone owing to the pre-install Microsoft software in the Android ecosystem that makes things easy for him. In an interview on the invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse, Gates said that he often plays around with iPhones, "but the one I carry around happens to be Android". "I actually use an Android phone. Because I want to keep track of everything," Gates told journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin in the interview.