Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
31 May 2017 Acquired SoundJam (iTunes)
“Last quarter, across other product lines. And we talked about this that like the numbers are almost silly when you look at the next acquisition and it’s like well, I think Apple had done like a trillion dollars of revenue since buying NeXT, almost all of it in some way attributable to the next.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 31 May 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SoundJam (iTunes)
Transcript context
…Let’s be clear. No iTunes, no iPhone. Right. And last quarter, they did $52 billion in revenue. Last quarter, across other product lines. And we talked about this that like the numbers are almost silly when you look at the next acquisition and it’s like well, I think Apple had done like a trillion dollars of revenue since buying NeXT, almost all of it in some way attributable to the next. It’s sort of the same ridiculous thinking. So I was like, “Okay. Duh, A+.” But I’m going to walk it down to an A for this reason: Apple was going to do this with or without either of these two companies. Yeah. They were going to do this anyway, no doubt.…
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