Android

“My impression of the whole Android Value chain ecosystem is that there's no profits to be made anywhere, and Google keeps it that way on purpose.”

“Microsoft's competitor was not Apple and the iPhone, it was Android.”

“Which would be the very thing that would sort of destroy their mobile business.”

“Android was a Blackberry clone at the time, not an iPhone clone.”

“Look, they would've taken our stuff cause they could put pressure back on the manufacturers, but we didn't have the stuff they wanted at the right time. They went Android.”

“Android is not a trick. Because you highlighted it. Android is a piece of the search trick.”

“So Steve Jobs threatens to sue Google over implementation of multi-touch gestures. And so, as a result, Android for several years doesn't have things like pinch to zoom or the sort of swipe operating system UI navigation gestures, and I'm pretty sure if you re…”

“Over three billion active Android devices now.”

“In holiday, 2009, when the droid comes out, total Android market share of the smartphone market is still in the, you know, the G one range, like five, six percent global market share. One year later, 30%. They go from five percent to 30% in one year. They anno…”

“Nobody stretches a business model across technology eras. Nobody. And Google did it.”

“So July, 2005, Google buys Android for fifty million dollars, five, zero million dollars per Android.”

“If they don't buy Android and they don't get started basically in the month that they did, this market belongs to Microsoft.”

“I mean, this is the clearest example of counterpositioning, I think, that has ever existed. Oh, hey, my competitors require you to pay them. How about I pay you instead?”