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Interesting Steve quote from Q&A: We don’t know much about the advertising stuff. We’re learning. We tried to buy a company called AdMob, the bigge
by tvon 17y ago
Interesting Steve quote from Q&A:
We don’t know much about the advertising stuff. We’re
learning. We tried to buy a company called AdMob, the
biggest mobile advertising company. But Google came
in and snatched them from us. They didn’t want us to
have them. So we bought another smaller company,
Quattro Wireless. They are teaching us. But we are
babes in the woods. We are learning as fast as we can.
edit: Mostly referring to the 'babe in the woods' comment, along with his perspective on the AdMob purchase.
- kristofferR 17y agohttp://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/14/apple_met_with_admob_weeks_before_acquisition_by_google.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/14/apple_met_with... http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/apple-acquires-quattro-wireless/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/apple-acquires-quattro-wire...
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- ugh 17y agoFor all the propaganda you sometimes get from Apple it’s really astonishing how openly Jobs sometimes says stuff like that. I like it. Not something many CEOs would say on the day they announce their entrance into the ad business.
- Perceval 17y agoIIRC, Jobs made a similar statement about being a novice when introducing the first Xserves, acknowledging that this was not an area in which Apple historically had strength, but that this was a first offering.
- gbookman 17y agoHe also made a similar statement with the release of iTunes 1.0 back in '01, as Apple took far longer to embrace digital music than other companies.
- iron_ball 17y agoMakes more sense if you note that Apple is among the voices framing Google as the new Microsoft -- a 900-pound octopus with a tentacle in every market.
- jacquesm 17y agoFunny, I would see Apple as the new Microsoft, not Google.