Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
26 Aug 2025 Acquired Google Part II: Alphabet
“They were a systemic disadvantage because they were going to carriers and saying, why don’t you pay us $5, $10?”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 26 Aug 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet
Transcript context
…They really did. They were a systemic disadvantage because they were going to carriers and saying, why don’t you pay us $5, $10? And Google was going to them and saying, here you go. This is free, you can have the source code and you can modify it as you see fit. Even today, I think Samsung has their own OS, Samsung one or something like that, that looks different. It’s Android, but it’s the open source version of Android that they’ve customized. That’s the thing that’s on, I don’t know, a billion phones and three, we aren’t Microsoft. Yeah, you guys don’t want to be compact.…
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