Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
22 Jul 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume II
“I think at that point it was a two horse race. Microsoft probably could have figured out a way to get in before that, but it is all related to Google finding that orthogonal business model.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 22 Jul 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Microsoft Volume II
Transcript context
…The Moto Droid, yup. I think at that point it was a two horse race. Microsoft probably could have figured out a way to get in before that, but it is all related to Google finding that orthogonal business model. It’s funny. Microsoft did have Bing at this point in time, so they did have a business model that they could have used if they’d been willing to go free on Windows Phone.…
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