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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:34:52 Ben Gilbert Yes, and like that historic announcement from Bill committing to Microsoft Office for the Mac, this partnership is also huge.
- ▶ 2:30:03 David Rosenthal And, like, Mac sales are irrelevant.
- ▶ 2:30:06 David Rosenthal Even today, in twenty-twenty-four, Mac sales are eight percent of the market.
- ▶ 2:30:53 Ben Gilbert Macs are starting to sell because of that.
- ▶ 2:30:55 Ben Gilbert Your iPod attach rate with Macs is actually working.
- ▶ 2:30:58 Ben Gilbert People are buying Macs.
- ▶ 2:31:00 Ben Gilbert Macs are becoming the option that students are starting to pick as they're picking their college computer.
- ▶ 2:31:32 David Rosenthal And what did the Mac do?
- ▶ 2:33:17 Ben Gilbert And of course, anyone that had big legacy applications for Mac and Windows, so Adobe is a great example of, they're gonna keep that up forever.
- ▶ 3:10:41 Ben Gilbert It's certainly not a scaled down version of a Mac, which is what the iPhone was.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 3:32:27 Ben Gilbert They do something like universal binary with the apps, where all the same apps that I had installed on my Mac, they now run their iOS counterpart, they grab all the data that's stored in the same places, so all my apps, you know, it knows…
- ▶ 4:23:40 Ben Gilbert As interoperability becomes a thing, as file formats standardized, and I can open the same documents on Macs and PCs, it's like, okay, file formats stop being a network economy that accrues only to the operating system.
- ▶ 4:42:35 Ben Gilbert It's the finest computer I've ever owned, which I say every time I get a new Mac.
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,…