Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
22 Jul 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume II
“I think the biggest moment when the door really shut is when Verizon freaked out after the Apple and AT&T deal, and said we need an answer.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 22 Jul 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Microsoft Volume II
Transcript context
…This is such a good point. Microsoft’s competitor was not Apple and the iPhone. It was Android. It’s a little bit butterfly flaps its wingsy, but there is a direct line over a 10 year period from Google finds its web-based search business model, and Microsoft cannot employ its traditional business model and win in mobile. Microsoft will lose in mobile. There are some pivots in there. I think the biggest moment when the door really shut is when Verizon freaked out after the Apple and AT&T deal, and said we need an answer. They decided that answer was Droid and they put like a gajillion dollars behind the Droid advertising campaign. The Moto Droid, yup.…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.