David Rosenthal: commitment

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…This is in January of 07, then July of 07 is when it shipped. July of 07. Yes, is when the iPhone shipped. Now I believe Eric had disclosed to Steve about the Sooner project because obviously it was public that Google had acquired Android and I believe that Steve Jobs knew that Google was working on like a Blackberry style phone, but he did not know about the Dream prototype. Eric comes on stage and here you go, watch this. We’ll link to this in this clip in the show notes. It’s crazy. It’s about a three minute long total thing. Eric comes on stage, he makes a joke about merging the companies that like Apple and Google are so close they should merge. He says the companies should be called Apple Goo. Then he jokes and he says, well, but here’s the way with the iPhone that we can merge the companies without actually merging. He’s making these jokes and the camera is focused on Steve Jobs and he just has the ick. That's the best way to describe. He’s like trying to be a good sport and smile and be like, yeah, but he has the ick.…

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