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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
22 Apr 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume I
“Apple has always, at least in my opinion, created a better computing experience by being completely integrated.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 22 Apr 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Microsoft Volume I
Transcript context
…Having this discussion now makes me think, Windows 95, they did what Apple tried to do in bringing Scully in. Scully came from Pepsi. Obviously, that didn't work, but Microsoft, they're the ones who did it. They're the ones who mass-marketified the computing vision. It was the wrong strategy for Apple, and it was the right strategy for Microsoft. Apple has always, at least in my opinion, created a better computing experience by being completely integrated. It's the Alan Kay quote, "Anyone who cares about making great software needs to build their own hardware." The complete integrated package that Apple offers, I have always found to be the best computing experience. And it doesn't scale. It didn't in that era for sure.…
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