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3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Steven Sinofsky · across every show →

Everything said about PC makers, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
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Sinofsky: PC makers failed in mobile due to siloed structures
“The reason that there are none of the PC makers, other than Apple in a sense, are successful phone makers, is because they were exactly like Detroit. They had a graphics group, they had a peripheral group, they had an IO group, they had a storage group.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:48 a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
Feb 26, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sinofsky: Microsoft could not stop PC manufacturers from pre-installing bloatware
“There's just no way you could get the PC makers to stop putting extra software on PCs. Like, it's just not There's not an option for that to exist. Like you could try and try. I tried.”
Steven Sinofsky Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 19:56 a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
Jun 18, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sinofsky: Surface exists because PC makers refused to build aluminum laptops
“The reason Surface exists is because the PC makers wouldn't build, like, an aluminum computer, basically, or an all-in-one, for that matter.”
Steven Sinofsky Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 31:57 Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
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