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Ben Gilbert: belief

22 Jul 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume II

“The future is tablets. We think that’s going to be a dominant computing paradigm.”

— Ben Gilbert

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

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…And then Apple comes out with the iPad in 2010. Windows 8 vision had kicked off. The planning process for what it’s going to be had kicked off. They’re starting to play, actually, Steven puts these videos on YouTube, they’re awesome to watch the original vision of what Windows 8 should be. They’re out on a limb. They’re saying the future is touch. The future is tablets. We think that’s going to be a dominant computing paradigm. On the one hand, Bill Gates has been saying this for years. There’s a cultural acceptance with the idea. On the other hand, it really hasn’t manifested in the market, so it’s a little bit dangerous to say— But the iPhone has now come out and multi-touch has shown this is the way to do it.…

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