Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
28 Oct 2024 Acquired Meta
“I think two years. I think that was 2009 if I remember right. Hell, Facebook platform didn’t even launch until May, 2007, so after the iPhone announcement.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 28 Oct 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Meta
Transcript context
…It was $700. Android was a Blackberry clone at the time, not an iPhone clone. The DROID DOES campaign wouldn’t be another year or two. I think two years. I think that was 2009 if I remember right. Hell, Facebook platform didn’t even launch until May, 2007, so after the iPhone announcement. For the moment, platform is rocking and rolling, like we were just talking about. Facebook is becoming the next Microsoft, which brings us to the second Microsoft partnership in October of 2007. Just five months after F8 and platform launch, Facebook now has all of the leverage. Dan Rose has some great stories on Twitter about how this negotiation goes down. You spent time with Dan, didn’t you? Prepping for this?…
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