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You know, could Apple still go on without Steve Jobs there?
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General Magic

You know, could Apple stillgo on without Steve Jobs there?

You know, could Apple still
go on without Steve Jobs there?

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You know, could Apple still go on without Steve Jobs there?
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4 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:11:12
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
Marc was one of the first people to see that computing in the future was gonna be, - General Magic 00:11
Marc was one of the first people to see that computing in th...
And it was a telephone, it was essentially going to be a smartphone - General Magic 00:08
And it was a telephone, it was essentially going to be a sma...
Imagine a personal computer, with applications organized - General Magic 00:06
Imagine a personal computer, with applications organized
An object through which you communicated with yourself about everything - General Magic 00:15
An object through which you communicated with yourself about...
Marc always came with his giant red book, uh, and he would thumb through the pages - General Magic 00:15
Marc always came with his giant red book, uh, and he would t...
Please leave a message and we will return - General Magic 00:05
Please leave a message and we will return
I saw a message on my answering machine from Bill Atkinson - General Magic 00:07
I saw a message on my answering machine from Bill Atkinson
You got to come back to Apple to work with me on it." - General Magic 00:09
You got to come back to Apple to work with me on it."
Wouldn't it be nice, if all these notes, which are very useful, - General Magic 00:12
Wouldn't it be nice, if all these notes, which are very...
I was a little skeptical at first, because Marc is such a slick salesperson, - General Magic 00:08
I was a little skeptical at first, because Marc is such a sl...
And when I saw this, the concept and I talked to Marc, - General Magic 00:06
And when I saw this, the concept and I talked to Marc,
The same feeling that I had when I first encountered the Macintosh. - General Magic 00:05
The same feeling that I had when I first encountered the Mac...
This book was not just ideas, - General Magic 00:15
This book was not just ideas,
Marc said, "We are gonna create what comes after the personal computer." - General Magic 00:12
Marc said, "We are gonna create what comes after the pe...
I think it's got to be a separate company." - General Magic 00:07
I think it's got to be a separate company."
This was the beginning of what became, I think, the most important company - General Magic 00:08
This was the beginning of what became, I think, the most imp...
You know it had Apple's fairy dust sprinkled on it. - General Magic 00:05
You know it had Apple's fairy dust sprinkled on it.
So we had no idea what it was, - General Magic 00:06
So we had no idea what it was,
There's this company, it has Andy and Bill and, - General Magic 00:06
There's this company, it has Andy and Bill and,
And I was like, "I don't know what they are doing yet, but I know I need to be there." - General Magic 00:12
And I was like, "I don't know what they are doing ...