Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
16 Sept 2016 Acquired Android
“I guess the question in my mind that I don’t think we can really answer is yeah, would Google have done this very unique open source approach to grow insanely quickly and get on 80 percent of the world’s smartphones without acquiring Android.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Sept 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Android
Transcript context
…It’s interesting. I mean if you think about the grade that we gave Google Docs which is a big part of Google Apps, I can’t remember exactly what it was, but it was not an A. We haven’t graded Android yet, more to discuss. But I’m pretty confident I’m going to be higher than it was on Google Docs. Yeah. I guess the question in my mind that I don’t think we can really answer is yeah, would Google have done this very unique open source approach to grow insanely quickly and get on 80 percent of the world’s smartphones without acquiring Android. Well, listeners, if any of you were at Google at this time, let us know. We’d love to know. Okay, tech themes?…
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