iPad, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPad comes up
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:15:04 Ben Gilbert I just recently bought the new super-thin eleven-inch iPad Pro.
- ▶ 3:15:35 Ben Gilbert In fact, in particular, for each of these episodes now, I read the Worldly Partners research on the company we're covering from a friend of the show, Arvind, and I was able to read the whole thing, take it in, in a much more, like,…
- ▶ 3:16:08 Ben Gilbert This iPad is like so great.
- ▶ 3:16:11 David Rosenthal I'm so tempted because, you know, I mean, we both have the iPad minis that we got for when we do things live with guests.
- ▶ 3:16:19 David Rosenthal Oh, oh no, I was gonna say the iPad minis suck.
- ▶ 3:16:49 Ben Gilbert I wish it had the iPad Pro's screen.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:24:14 David Rosenthal And then Apple comes out with the iPad in 2010.
- ▶ 3:25:01 Ben Gilbert So, but you're right, the iPad coming out really validates, whoa, big tablets with multi-touch actually might be the computing paradigm for the future,
- ▶ 3:25:35 David Rosenthal The iPad sure as hell looks like it's gonna try and come do that to Microsoft's core PC market.
- ▶ 3:25:43 David Rosenthal I mean, the original Jobs keynote introducing the iPad lays out his vision, right, of like, the PC is gonna become the pickup truck,
- ▶ 3:25:52 David Rosenthal And the iPad is gonna become the car, and that would be a truly terrible thing for Microsoft, especially if that goes into the enterprise, as the iPhone is clearly going into the enterprise on the phone side.
- ▶ 3:26:04 Ben Gilbert Now, there was a little bit of a folly in believing that the iPad was the PC of the future.
- ▶ 3:26:09 Ben Gilbert Standing here today, we all can look at unit sales and realize, oh, the iPad was not the PC of the future.
- ▶ 3:26:16 Ben Gilbert It had its place, but it did not in any way replace PCs
- ▶ 3:31:49 David Rosenthal There's a reason why the iPad was a scaled up version of the iPhone, not a scaled down version of the Mac.
- ▶ 3:32:02 David Rosenthal I wish Apple would do this with the iPad.
- ▶ 3:32:05 David Rosenthal I don't want to have a MacBook and an iPad.
- ▶ 3:32:41 Ben Gilbert It has the YouTube videos cached, it, you know, does whatever, but it just turns into an iPad with an iOS UI.
- ▶ 3:32:54 Ben Gilbert I travel with an iPhone and an iPad and a MacBook, and I think I could just do two.
- ▶ 3:58:09 Ben Gilbert What users want is we have a good version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint that people can run on their iPads, and we've decided not to ship it to try and advantage Surface and other Windows eight devices.
- ▶ 3:58:53 Ben Gilbert Now, with all this hindsight, I understand why you wouldn't make the decision when you feel like the iPad could be the end of you.
- ▶ 3:59:41 David Rosenthal It really, it was an easy win for Satya during his first year to say, culture has changed here, we are shipping Office on iPad.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:54 Ben Gilbert Making hardware, gaming systems, gaming studios, Windows apps, iPad apps, Mac apps, operating systems, mobile operating systems, MP three players, search engines, cloud computing, services on cloud computing, programming languages,…
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:36:28 Ben Gilbert Whatever salespeople we hire to work at those stores, they're gonna sell the same iPhones and iPads that we have everywhere else at every other store.