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General Magic

Because then I would knowthat it would be doneand it would be done right

Because then I would know
that it would be done
and it would be done right

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Because then I would know that it would be done and it would be done right.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
01:21:20
Uploaded
Jun 18, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Spellbound Productions II

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Movie Summary

The ideas that dominate the tech industry and our day to day lives were born at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up named 'General Magic', which spun out of Apple in 1990 to create the first handheld personal communicator (or "smartp
Started with the Mac, and had spawned General Magic. - General Magic 00:05
Started with the Mac, and had spawned General Magic.
General Magic progeny had spawned iPhone and Android. - General Magic 00:06
General Magic progeny had spawned iPhone and Android.
Thank you for joining us today. You know Android - General Magic 00:08
Thank you for joining us today. You know Android
You know, if you look at Android, Andy Rubin droid, Andy was right there - General Magic 00:09
You know, if you look at Android, Andy Rubin droid, Andy was...
I mean, here's the test, what if General Magic - General Magic 00:07
I mean, here's the test, what if General Magic
Not a chance, I mean all these things were linked together, one after another. - General Magic 00:05
Not a chance, I mean all these things were linked together, ...
One out of every five people on the planet uses - General Magic 00:07
One out of every five people on the planet uses
The vision was true, the vision was accurate, the vision is the idea - General Magic 00:10
The vision was true, the vision was accurate, the vision is ...
The last hurdle was when computing got into - General Magic 00:05
The last hurdle was when computing got into
And between Tony and-- and Andy, that's about 98% - General Magic 00:11
And between Tony and-- and Andy, that's about 98%
That's pretty amazing, and that by itself is-- - General Magic 00:11
That's pretty amazing, and that by itself is--
We are being filmed for posterity as part of our-- our introduction video. - General Magic 00:06
We are being filmed for posterity as part of our-- our intro...
Imagine a star that went supernova - General Magic 00:15
Imagine a star that went supernova
I mean, all these companies, and I don't know - General Magic 00:13
I mean, all these companies, and I don't know
It was one of the only times I've ever felt like - General Magic 00:10
It was one of the only times I've ever felt like
What's so rare is having all those things at the same time. - General Magic 00:04
What's so rare is having all those things at the same t...
When you look at that class of people - General Magic 00:12
When you look at that class of people
We all carry things from General Magic, in terms of our view - General Magic 00:06
We all carry things from General Magic, in terms of our view
And as engineers you can't help but think, - General Magic 00:13
And as engineers you can't help but think,
A lot of General Magic was imagining what the world would be like if some things existed - General Magic 00:07
A lot of General Magic was imagining what the world would be...