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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired Aug 26, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:31:46 Ben Gilbert Blackberry, Windows Mobile?
  • ▶ 2:32:10 David Rosenthal Or, you did have OEMs, device makers, who made devices, and then they bought an operating system, either from Palm, which made their own devices, but then also started selling the operating system to other vendors, or the big player was…
  • ▶ 2:36:49 David Rosenthal Smartphones, you know, and even Windows Mobile, as bad as it was, proved that there is demand.

The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired Jun 2, 2025 · 1 mention

Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired Sep 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:45:35 Mark Zuckerberg Let's build this platform where we can get a web-based platform, so you basically build a native shell, and you build this web-based platform in it, and we'll be able to just update our apps every day, and we'll ship one thing once, and…

The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired Sep 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:34 Mark Zuckerberg Let's build this platform where we can get a web-based platform, so you basically build a native shell, and you build this web-based platform in it, and we'll be able to just update our apps every day, and we'll ship one thing once, and…

Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired Jul 22, 2024 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:33:44 Ben Gilbert And then we're gonna talk about Vista, and then we're gonna talk about Zune, and Search, and Bing, and Windows Mobile, and Windows Eight, and yeah, all that.
  • ▶ 3:05:42 Ben Gilbert In the world of, I suppose they were early smartphones, Microsoft had developed Windows Mobile.
  • ▶ 3:05:55 Ben Gilbert What Windows Mobile was, was an operating system for handset makers to adopt and put on their handsets, and, you know, these things kind of looked like Blackberries, or mostly keys with a little screen, and when you looked at it, it looked…
  • ▶ 3:07:09 Ben Gilbert That really wasn't the case with Windows Mobile phones.
  • ▶ 3:07:13 Ben Gilbert The handset makers could modify the code of Windows Mobile.
  • ▶ 3:08:00 Ben Gilbert Yes, they had Windows Mobile, but no, it was nothing like what smartphones would become because of the way that the iPhone reset everything.
  • ▶ 3:08:10 David Rosenthal And at some point in this journey here, post iPhone, but still in this sort of weird Windows Mobile era,
  • ▶ 3:11:09 Ben Gilbert But Windows Mobile was that old paradigm.
  • ▶ 3:11:22 Ben Gilbert So, iPhones start selling, they're selling well, it's 2008, apps start coming out, it's 2009, sales start really picking up, and finally, Microsoft decides, hey, what we're gonna do is, we have this old asset, Windows Mobile.
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