Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Okay, wait, no, I got what it is. It’s the same thing as the iPhone. It was an incredible achievement to wrestle OS 10 into iOS and to get it to run on a battery powered mobile device that fit in your pocket. Android did the same thing with Linux. They wrestled Linux into a battery powered mobile device that fits in your pocket. Yep. Less of an elegant, satisfying core insight I think and not the reason that it worked. Not the reason why Android, unlike these other ones there’s a clear line between, it’s almost like the Google products that succeed wildly organically except for Android are ones where there’s almost no product. The technology solution is just so incredible that it is directly the user experience and you get the technology breakthrough as the experience. I see where you’re going…

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