Acquired / episode intelligence
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24 published records
01 / belief
“Tim did recently, you know, the last couple of years referred to the Android ecosystem as a “toxic hellstew.” Or I think he pointed out.”
02 / belief
“I believe also some of the technology that they developed there became the standard for USB.”
03 / uncertainty
“We don’t know when they were originally planning to do this but they ended up doing it in November.”
04 / belief
“I mean, really the core thing they get from Android, in my opinion is making sure they don’t lose access to all those people searching.”
05 / belief
“I remember reading that and I think what they assessed is that it’s not a big enough market.”
06 / commitment
“I basically gave my answer to this earlier, which I won’t repeat all of it but I completely agree this was a technology acquisition when they bought it.”
07 / belief
“Then we have some follow-ups and a section called The Carve Out. This is where David and I grab something from our lives that we’ve seen whether a book or a piece of software or anything in the media that we think is either related or completely unrelated to the topic at hand.”
08 / uncertainty
“Huh. I don’t know. An unrelated question is, is it actually that much different than what already existed in their Israeli product and that they just decided like, “Yeah, we’ll try it here too.”
09 / belief
“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.”
10 / commitment
“As a result of that from kind of 2011 to 2012-2013-ish, you can still go buy these things on Amazon which is amazing. We will link to this in the show notes.”
11 / belief
“Yep. So at this point, sitting here in September 2016, Uber I believe is the most highly valued private technology company in the world.”
12 / belief
“The thing that paints it in my mind for how big a deal that was is how big a deal the opposite was.”
13 / observation
“For all of these players in the ecosystem, if they don’t realize already this comes to be this is the only way they’re going to stand up to Apple, is they all need to work together and there needs to be this open operating system tying it all together which becomes Android.”
14 / belief
“The reason – Ben and I were talking about this before the show too – I think the reason why that’s important in the current internet information economy that we live in is what the internet has done is it has made distribution free.”
15 / prediction
“They never launched a product but what they were doing was they were building essentially a tablet, like a personal communicator, sort of a Palm competitor. A lot of that tech, I believe, ended up in the Newton at Apple.”
16 / preference
“Well, so what Ben is referring to, for our new listeners, one of the things that we love on this show is lawsuits – not targeted at us but between the companies that we cover because all sorts of really interesting things come out in lawsuits.”
17 / prediction
“There’s nothing tethering you and that means that the device is actually kind of secondary and if you look at the airpods, you know, double tap to activate Siri, like we’re moving to a world where computing is just on you, part of you, around you all the time.”
18 / recommendation
“This is a great book recommended to me a while back by my buddy, Matt Nerlinger who’s at AVP which is a growth VC firm in San Francisco.”
19 / recommendation
“So, really great to watch. I highly recommend to everybody. All right, that’s what we got for you.”
20 / evaluation
“I think the spin that I had on that was if you think about what Microsoft was trying to do at that point in time with Windows Mobile, the Microsoft way of thinking which is evolving now but certainly still at that point in time was like “we control everything you need to distribute a computing experience to a customer.”
21 / prediction
“I think that’s kind of what they tracked actually that first year, but then the explosion after that – never could have predicted.”
22 / evaluation
“Like defensive, yes, existentially as I guess Android was in some ways too but not really because people are still going to keep using Google services whether it was on a Google property or not.”
23 / evaluation
“You know, compared to their other businesses, it’s not insane but that in itself on a $50 million acquisition would be great. But the thing that I think Android really did is ensure that Google was safe for the next decade or two as the world changed out from under them and they were at great risk of losing access to their customers.”
24 / evaluation
“To the bitterness involved here, so Steve Jobs is towards the end of his life at this point and the Walter Isaacson biography that comes out which is this incredible book, he has this quote in there and he says, “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to and I will spend every penny of Apple’s 40 billion in the bank –” funny that at that time Apple only had 40 billion in the bank, like that’s cute, right, “–to right to this wrong, I’m going to destroy Android because it’s a stolen product.”