Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…And it’s all NeXT. The incredible thing is, yeah, when they first launched the iPhone, they say “and it runs OS 10.” That was a big selling point. This is not a phone like we know phones today with an embedded operating system. This is a computer in your pocket and to prove, it’s running a variant of the operating system that exists on your computers. That was like huge and ridiculous, and like people at Blackberry didn’t believe it. They’d look at the scroll performance and say “you can’t do that on a phone. We just don’t believe you.” And so I think that when you look at– This was before it was dubbed iOS, okay, it was a variant of OS 10. And then when they launched the iPad, they say, “And we’re renaming it iOS. It runs on the iPhone and the iPad.” Then they launched the watch, then they launched the TV. All these things are kind of built off that same Darwin kernel and the core of what they acquired in NeXT. Yeah. And there we go, the rest, as they say, is history. So with that, let’s move on to our next segment of the show which is acquisition category. This will be a fun one. What do you think? And what we do is we categorize the acquisition, and we’ve got a couple of categories and we decide which it represents.…

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