Windows Phone, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Windows Phone comes up
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:58:24 Steve Ballmer Uh, phone, big disagreement.
- ▶ 2:11:01 Steve Ballmer They were the biggest Windows phone OEM at the time.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:11:42 Ben Gilbert We can repurpose some of that to make this new thing called Windows Phone, but unfortunately,
- ▶ 3:12:15 Ben Gilbert And the new strategy had to be, we will dictate really intense hardware requirements, because now with Windows Phone, we are making a promise to users to compete with the iPhone, where Microsoft is backing that up.
- ▶ 3:17:39 David Rosenthal And it's funny, you know, Microsoft did have Bing at this point in time, so they did have a business model that they could have used if they'd been willing to go free on Windows Phone.
- ▶ 3:33:57 Ben Gilbert Windows phone.
- ▶ 4:00:26 David Rosenthal In 2011, after Microsoft had released this Windows phone, which, like we said, was really kind of doomed to fail against Android, like you just couldn't compete with free.
- ▶ 4:01:13 David Rosenthal So there was one phone OEM that was willing to play ball with Microsoft and Windows Phone, and that was Nokia.
- ▶ 4:01:35 Ben Gilbert That wasn't going well, and so they were kind of left without a platform, and so they either needed to pick Windows Phone or Android as their platform of the future, despite being what used to be the dominant phone maker for all cell…
- ▶ 4:02:08 David Rosenthal In February, 20 11, Nokia agrees to adopt the Windows Phone operating system as its primary smartphone OS for its devices.
- ▶ 4:02:25 David Rosenthal Pretty quickly, though, as we get into 2012, 20 13, it's clear Windows Phone ain't really working, and Android is the future.
- ▶ 4:18:43 Ben Gilbert I actually thought Windows Phone, particularly Windows Phone eight, was a beautiful new crack.
- ▶ 4:47:02 Ben Gilbert To Joe Belfiore, who played a large role in Windows and Windows Phone.
- ▶ 4:48:42 David Rosenthal Terry ran Windows and Windows Phone at Microsoft for a long time.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:19:19 Ben Gilbert Yeah, when I was there, Terry was, uh, EVP over, I think, Windows and Windows Phone.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 31:26 Ben Gilbert I remember I worked at Microsoft in 2012, and I was at our annual meeting in the old key arena, and I watched a demo of cloud gaming on a Windows phone with an Xbox controller.