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Ben Gilbert: belief

22 Jul 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume II

“I think at first it was, you can have it open source, but you don’t get any of our services.”

— Ben Gilbert

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

Transcript context

…And Google also only really cares about their services that they monetize through advertising. One of the deal points in there, I think this may be varied by geography, but is oh yeah, you got to use Google services on there too. But by the way, they’re best in class and they’re free. You don’t have to pay anything for that either. I think at first it was, you can have it open source, but you don’t get any of our services. Or you can take the whole thing and you take all of our services, but our services are great and guess what? The Play store is one of our services. if you want all the apps, then you have to take all the other Google services too. Right.…

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