> If you had to pick a tech company to leverage your disruptive new consumer technology, and make sure it kept the 'awesome', and was hacker friendly, who would you go to?
I expected Microsoft to grab them and I'm surprised they didn't. Would've made a smart fit with Xbox and given them easy ways to directly integrate it with their OSs. Would work well with gaming, education, eventually business, mobile and so on. $2b a few months ago would've been a small price to pay to get in early on this, unless they have something comparable up their sleeves from the research division.
Well, Don Mattrick left last year and Marc Whitten's leaving/just left, so I don't really find it surprising.
Yep, those would be the two companies you'd have bidding. Except, Carmack is too heavy metal to go to Google. I only partly jest.
Carmack is definitely too heavy metal for google :)
tbh, of all companies, i would never say "carmack is going to facebook".
Valve or Google definitely. Valve because of the gaming expertise, Google for the existing experience and culture of innovation.
> Google for the existing experience and culture of innovation