The following video, created by Andrew Filippone Jr. and titled
'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett,
analyzes the hostility between the three companies and Microsoft's
absurd strategy to buy Yahoo. "The erudite conversations and sober
intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic,
inane dialogues, and open hostility rule. The one-on-one interview
between Charlie [Rose] and his guest begins as usual but quickly goes
awry, so much so that Charlie is warned that, somewhere, a man named
Steve is not happy."
The
"dialog" reminds me of the repetitive and nonsensical phrases from
Eugene Ionesco's plays and it's much more interesting than all the news
about
Microsoft and Yahoo.
Here's the transcript for those who want to understand the text better:
CR1:
Welcome to the broadcast. Tonight, a conversation about the future of
technology and the internet and mobile devices and all that. We talk to
Charlie Rose for the first time. Welcome. The future of technology...
coming up.
What will the web do to content in terms of high cost, expensive, time-consuming content?
CR2:
My perception is... but... you would know this much more than I do. OK,
tell me four or five of those that we are to take a look at that are
start-ups that have a brilliant idea.
CR1: Microsoft and Yahoo.
CR2: Microsoft... Yahoo.
CR1: Microsoft and Yahoo.
CR2: Microsoft... Yahoo.
CR1: Microsoft
CR2: Microsoft
CR1: Yahoo
CR2: Yahoo
CR1: Microsoft
CR2: Yahoo
CR1: Microsoft and Yahoo.
CR2: Microsoft... Yahoo.
CR1: Why wasn't Yahoo...?
CR2: Yahoo... Steve is not happy with the process so far.
CR1: Microsoft and Yahoo.
CR2: Don't do that! Google... Google... Google...
CR1: No, we're not gonna do that. I can never get Craig to talk to me about his economic model.
CR2: Google...
CR1: No
CR2: Google
CR1: No
CR2: Google
CR1: No, we're not gonna do that.
CR2: Google
CR1: Radiohead
CR2: Blogs
CR1: Google
CR2: Google... Google... Google...
CR1: Microsoft and Yahoo.
CR2: Google.
CR1: Microsoft and Yahoo.
CR2: Google.
CR1: Microsoft...
CR2: Google
CR1: Yahoo...
CR2: Google
CR1: Google... Yahoo...
CR2: Yahoo
CR1:
We're making all this money and now the stock's price is going through
the roof. And how can we use this advantage to enter new markets, to
expand our market share, to beat the hell out of everybody?
CR2: Steve is not happy.
CR1: What's gonna happen?
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