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▶ 1:01:05 Ben Thompson So I had the lowest hanging fruit in the world to sort of pick, right?
▶ 1:42:52 Ben Thompson It also includes Azure credits and

▶ 16:34 David Rosenthal And Forethought were the makers of a little Mac application that then became a Windows application called PowerPoint.

▶ 1:30:17 Ben Gilbert That platform is not Windows of the past, or the App Store of the current day, where it was just sort of coming.

▶ 17:26 David Rosenthal It's like the difference between working on CG and, like, Microsoft building the whole .NET framework for developing on Windows, you know.
▶ 32:01 David Rosenthal It's like if you were to develop an iOS app and then try and deploy it on Windows, like, uh, it wouldn't work.
▶ 32:56 David Rosenthal In fact, most people thought this was a dumb model that like Apple lost and the Mac was stupid and niche and like Windows and Intel is what won the open ecosystem.
▶ 33:08 Ben Gilbert Well, but Windows and Intel did have proprietary development environments and, you know, full stack dev tools.
▶ 53:29 David Rosenthal And it's like it sort of used to be with Windows was the consumer facing layer, and Intel was the other piece of the Wintel monopoly.
▶ 54:18 Ben Gilbert It's like when people were all building on Windows in the nineties, or all building on the iPhone in the late 2000.

▶ 13:43 Ben Gilbert What you're essentially teeing up here is, just to make sure I understand, platforms under this definition of an intermediary of transactions encompasses a lot of business models that we would otherwise refer to more narrowly as like…

▶ 37:18 Ben Gilbert We would love it if Windows developers could be able to easily develop for all these new machines shipping with all these advanced graphics capabilities.
▶ 37:29 David Rosenthal Yeah, you know, developers want to do three graphics directly into Windows without any of this, you know, crufty middleware from some no-name company NVIDIA out there.
▶ 37:40 David Rosenthal Why don't we just bake these APIs right into Windows directly for three D graphics?
▶ 1:37:51 Ben Gilbert Like, hey, anyone that is an application developer for Windows should be able to use whatever hardware is on any PC in a really great way, and so we want to commoditize all of our suppliers.
▶ 1:54:26 David Rosenthal Great, NVIDIA, we're gonna help save you from Intel, and in return, you're gonna, you know, give us a really sweetheart deal on these chips, and you're gonna put us in business with Xbox, and by the way, the other side of your gaming and…

▶ 18:51 Brendan Eich So the first version was not real, and the second version was kind of a joke, and the third version was starting to tell you where it could get to, and the fourth version was quite good on Windows, pretty much only on Windows.
▶ 19:21 Brendan Eich They had the Windows Monopoly, but what they did in tying the browser to it and threatening Compaq with revocation of the Windows license if
▶ 22:52 Brendan Eich And they threw it away or kind of threw most of it away and did a Windows only
▶ 29:23 Brendan Eich I had to recruit Ben Goodger out of Netscape to take over for Blake, and that went from Firefox, 0.6 on to one oh, and Ben did a lot of the important work on add-ons and search integration and making it really sing on Windows.
▶ 29:44 Brendan Eich But they didn't care about Windows.
▶ 41:29 Brendan Eich They were certainly still distributing it on Windows.
▶ 1:37:36 Brendan Eich Edge is somewhat privileged in Windows, which is a little hard on us.

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