You know this is a huge, uglything, but, um, we had tostart somewhere, we had to start...
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You know this is a huge, ugly
thing, but, um, we had to
start somewhere, we had to start with components that we could
buy off the shelf because
you're-- you're working from, uh--
You're working from wishes
and ideas of how you wish it would be
and real components that you can buy that are cheap
enough that you can make the
product reasonable so people can afford it
because if it cost
a million dollars, forget it
thing, but, um, we had to
start somewhere, we had to start with components that we could
buy off the shelf because
you're-- you're working from, uh--
You're working from wishes
and ideas of how you wish it would be
and real components that you can buy that are cheap
enough that you can make the
product reasonable so people can afford it
because if it cost
a million dollars, forget it
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You know this is a huge, ugly
thing, but, um, we had to
start somewhere, we had to start
00:00:05.667 --> 00:00:08.708
with components that we could
buy off the shelf because
you're--
00:00:08.708 --> 00:00:13.292
you're working from, uh--
You're working from wishes
and ideas
00:00:13.292 --> 00:00:15.075
of how you wish it would be
and real components
00:00:15.075 --> 00:00:18.667
that you can buy that are cheap
enough that you can make the
product reasonable
00:00:18.667 --> 00:00:21.459
so people can afford it
because if it cost
a million dollars, forget it.
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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
