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Ben Gilbert: belief

22 Jul 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume II

“I can’t figure out if I’m a super nerd for wanting that, and most people wouldn’t actually want that. But I travel with an iPhone, an iPad, and a MacBook, and I think I could just do two.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 Jul 2024
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…Yeah. My complete dream machine is my 13-inch M3 MacBook Air that when I flip it all the way around, they do something like a universal binary with the apps, where all the same apps that I had installed on my Mac, they now run their iOS counterpart. They grab all the data that’s stored in the same places. All my apps, it knows which Google Sheet I’m looking for. It has the YouTube videos cached. It does whatever. It just turns into an iPad with an iOS UI. That is the dream. I can’t figure out if I’m a super nerd for wanting that, and most people wouldn’t actually want that. But I travel with an iPhone, an iPad, and a MacBook, and I think I could just do two. A lot of people would want it.…

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