Evidence receipt / commitment
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: commitment
22 Jul 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume II
“We are going to get out ahead of Apple, we’re going to try to out-Apple Apple here, and we’re not going to let what happened in phone happen to us in our core market of PCs.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 22 Jul 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Microsoft Volume II
Transcript context
…Totally not. It did not have hearts and minds. It was not where the excitement was. It was not what people were building for. There’s a two birds with one stone attempt with Windows 8: (1) Touch tablets. We are going to get out ahead of Apple, we’re going to try to out-Apple Apple here, and we’re not going to let what happened in phone happen to us in our core market of PCs. (2) We need a new developer platform. We need to bring developers back.…
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