Dogfight Quotes

“In many ways what is happening now is what media, communications, and software moguls have been predicting for a generation: The fruits of Silicon Valley’s labor and those of New York and Hollywood are converging.”
― Fred Vogelstein, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

“Rubin and those on down had the additional frustration of watching Jobs, in their view, wrongly take credit for innovations that were not his or Apple’s. Jobs was an amazing innovator who had an unparalleled sense for when to release a product, how to design the hardware and the software, and how to make consumers lust after it. No one else comes close to his record of doing this again and again. It was genius. But he didn’t invent most of the technology in the iPhone. What made Jobs so successful is that he never wanted to be first at anything. Business and technology history is littered with inventors who never made a dime off their inventions. Jobs understood that a multiyear gap always exists between when something is discovered and when it becomes viable as a consumer product.”
― Fred Vogelstein, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

“When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Michael Dell had declared he had so little faith in an Apple recovery that if he were Jobs, he’d “shut Apple down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
― Fred Vogelstein, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

“While most high-tech executives struggled to adapt to a world that was in constant flux, Jobs had never faltered in his belief that consumers would gravitate to the best designed and most beautiful products.”
― Fred Vogelstein, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

“On top of all this was the growing customer dissatisfaction with the iPhone’s U.S. network operator, AT&T. AT&T had been unable to handle the explosion of traffic the iPhone caused on its network, and by 2010 its customers had become furious and vocal about it.”
― Fred Vogelstein, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

“For Jobs, it was the final straw. He had told Google that if it included multitouch on its phones, he would sue, and true to his word he sued the Nexus One maker, HTC,”
― Fred Vogelstein, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

“Internet media networks are proving that the money no longer has to come from cable subscribers. Netflix didn’t originate House of Cards. Independent studio Media Rights Capital took bids from a handful of networks, including HBO, Showtime, and AMC (where you can see Mad Men). Netflix outbid them all.”
― Fred Vogelstein, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

“if you add up the cash on the balance sheets of Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Netflix, it approaches $300 billion—enough to buy all the big cable companies and broadcast networks combined.”
― Fred Vogelstein, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

“The iPod and iTunes changed the way people bought and listened to music. The iPhone changed what people could expect from their cell phones. But the iPad was turning five industries upside down. It was changing the way consumers bought and read books, newspapers, and magazines. And it was changing the way they watched movies and television. Revenues from these businesses totaled about $250 billion, or about 2 percent of the GDP.”
― Fred Vogelstein, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

“the iPhone alone generates more revenue for Apple than the entire Microsoft Corporation does.”
― Fred Vogelstein, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution