Microsoft Surface
product on 4 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes · said 57 times in 19 episodes since 2019
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Sinofsky: US lacked technical expertise to manufacture Microsoft Surface
“When we're making surface, you know, you have to use all this pressure-sensitive adhesive and keep all the things together to make it USB thickness, and like, nobody here knows how to do that.”
Ballmer: Microsoft Built Surface Because PC OEMs Failed to Rival Mac
“There were no high end PCs that would really compete with Mac. And we, I decided the only way we were going to get there, we couldn't sit there with our OEM model and have it work. If we're going to have high end PCs that appealed to users, because I wanted us…”