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General Magic

IBM is conspicuously absent fromthe alliance. So is Microsoft, which is racing to...

IBM is conspicuously absent from
the alliance. So is Microsoft, which is racing to develop
its own personal communicating
software standard

Full Transcript

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IBM is conspicuously absent from the alliance. So is Microsoft,
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which is racing to develop its own personal communicating software standard.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:40:01
Uploaded
Jun 18, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Spellbound Productions II

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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
Some say it's revolutionary. Others simply say it's magic. - General Magic 00:06
Some say it's revolutionary. Others simply say it'...
So we got a ton of coverage, a ton of coverage, - General Magic 00:08
So we got a ton of coverage, a ton of coverage,
Are they going to be able to actually fulfill on that vision?" - General Magic 00:08
Are they going to be able to actually fulfill on that vision...
Thank you very much for being here. What do you see as your-- your startup date - General Magic 00:09
Thank you very much for being here. What do you see as your-...
We'll be talking about dates and about product features - General Magic 00:09
We'll be talking about dates and about product features
- That's correct. -OK, OK. So-- - General Magic 00:06
- That's correct. -OK, OK. So--
...written record of it. Um, but what we have, we have sort of... - General Magic 00:05
...written record of it. Um, but what we have, we have sort ...
Moments where somebody has to start doing something and, uh, what we have decided is - General Magic 00:23
Moments where somebody has to start doing something and, uh,...
No questioning of Could I be wrong None - General Magic 00:19
No questioning of Could I be wrong None
And then there was this one day where I came to talk to all of them - General Magic 00:06
And then there was this one day where I came to talk to all ...
We don't want you, because we don't need a manager. Our leader, our leaders - General Magic 00:14
We don't want you, because we don't need a manager...
Managers are just going to get in the way. We don't need program managers, - General Magic 00:08
Managers are just going to get in the way. We don't nee...
There was a fearlessness and a sense of correctness, - General Magic 00:10
There was a fearlessness and a sense of correctness,
Because that's what you need to break out of earth's gravity, - General Magic 00:07
Because that's what you need to break out of earth'...
And that momentum comes from suppressing introspection - General Magic 00:07
And that momentum comes from suppressing introspection
The Alliance was the biggest and most complicated - General Magic 00:08
The Alliance was the biggest and most complicated
Sony and Panasonic hated each other, - General Magic 00:07
Sony and Panasonic hated each other,
We needed to become independent, - General Magic 00:07
We needed to become independent,
It was the first, so called, concept IPO, - General Magic 00:08
It was the first, so called, concept IPO,
What made that possible? The imprimatur of Goldman Sachs. - General Magic 00:05
What made that possible? The imprimatur of Goldman Sachs.