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That the ideas had been right,the timing had been wrong

That the ideas had been right,
the timing had been wrong

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That the ideas had been right, the timing had been wrong.
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4 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
01:20:00
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
Steve would often call me after like the big product introductions, - General Magic 00:11
Steve would often call me after like the big product introdu...
He said, "What do you think, what do you think?" - General Magic 00:08
He said, "What do you think, what do you think?"
You know it was all like, you could hear Steve, say: - General Magic 00:14
You know it was all like, you could hear Steve, say:
Steve told me on the phone, he thought a lot about Magic Cap - General Magic 00:18
Steve told me on the phone, he thought a lot about Magic Cap
-Yeah, amazing. Bye. -Yeah, OK. - General Magic 00:05
-Yeah, amazing. Bye. -Yeah, OK.
Had I thought that it would be done by Steve Jobs, - General Magic 00:12
Had I thought that it would be done by Steve Jobs,
Because then I would know that it would be done and it would be done right. - General Magic 00:06
Because then I would know that it would be done and it would...
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