Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates made a rare joint appearance this week. The onetime rivals had many a nice thing to say about each other. What's behind the new romance? Is it true love or a mutual fear of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)? And what does Steve Jobs have to say about that dumpy PC guy in the Apple commercials? In this installment of Fool Video, I put these questions to Alan Deutschman, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs.

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Mac Greer doesn't own any shares of Apple. Microsoft is a Motley Fool Inside Value recommendation. The Fool has a disclosure policy.