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Hinrikus: Critical Tech Sectors Will Divide into a Tripolar World
“A lot of sectors where I think we're going to be living in a, It's a tripolar world. Is that a word? Did I make it up? So there's gonna be an American version. Let's call it Android. There is a European version, Helsing, a Chinese version. Defense, space, ener…”
Seibert: Open-source LLMs will become the 'Android' to OpenAI's 'Apple'
“So the closed may win in terms of having the most advanced model, but I think the Apple versus Android comparison is exactly accurate. So you're going to have something proprietary that might be best because it can be fully vertically integrated. They have, th…”
Teare: No Rational Silicon Valley Founder Launches Android First
“IOS first, which is very typical here in the Valley. No one does Android first unless they are, you know, somehow politically minded to make that choice. No rational business person does that.”
Weitzman: Government should provide free smartphones as a basic human right
“So like, first of all, my personal opinion, the government should give a free Android to everybody who wants one. Like you should be able to go to the social security office and just get a phone. Like it's a basic human right at this point, in my opinion.”
Stebbings: Investors should back existing category winners rather than searching for alternatives
“If you want to invest in the next Helsing, don't. Just invest in Helsing. I spend my life with investors who are like, oh, I'm trying to find the next OpenAI, the next Android. Don't. Just put your money in the winner.”
Nikesh Arora Opposed Google's Acquisition of Android
“At Google, I was very stroppy with Eric when they bought Android. And I said, Eric, I used to work in the mobile industry. I thought he hired me for my experience. And we shouldn't be buying Android.”
Midha: Winning spatial computing platforms will bridge AR, VR, web, and mobile
“The companies that will end up building massive standalone businesses here will figure out how to leverage the uniqueness of AR and VR and iOS and web and Android to give multiple viewers different viewing perspectives and interactions with the same content.”
Andrew Ng: ChatGPT leads horizontal AI, but Gemini has a distribution advantage
“ChatGPT seems to be the dominant player in the new, new gen horizontal information discovery. Although I think Gemini with this channel advantage through control of Android and Chrome, you know, is a serious player as well.”
O'Driscoll: ChatGPT will be the Apple of AI while alternatives act as Android
“I think ChatGPT will be the Apple-level quality product, but there'll be a whole bunch of Android-type quality products that are out there that will just keep pricing honest if they're commercially available and, you know, universally.”
Narang: Toast chose Android over iOS simply because it seemed easier
“One of the things that was a crucial decision that we made was we built this platform on Android versus iOS, and it was not, in hindsight, it's like, feels like a strategic decision, but in reality, it was simply because we thought Android was an easier platfo…”
Eric Schmidt used Apple board seat to prepare Google for mobile
“Now, back then, and this is kind of incredible, Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat on Apple's board of directors, which is a crazy thing to think these days, and it was basically like having a crystal ball. You know, Eric knew that over multiple generations, you know…”
Wilkinson: Google Maps blew Yelp out of the water using Android
“Turns out with Google, having Android and Google Maps, they can just ask every single person on earth how the restaurant was that they went to last night, because they know that they'd visited it via Google Maps, and suddenly Google Maps has better data and bl…”
Gil: Google gave Android independent hiring autonomy post-acquisition
“Android actually had its own hiring practices, which at the time was Anthema at Google, and it was set up so that they could really run their team very independently, hire independently, make decisions independently, and that was a very explicit choice so that…”
Andy Rubin founded Android as an EIR at Redpoint's offices
“Famously, we had Andy Rubin as a IR here, and he actually founded Android out of our Menlo Park offices, and eventually helped them sell that into Google.”
Abrams: Mobile App Store Distribution Alone Makes User Growth Significantly Harder
“I think just being an iOS app, you know, or iOS and Android app alone, it's harder to grow. There's been some exceptions, but it's tough.”
Robinhood's Early iOS Deposit Edge Was Caused by Android Bug
“One of the early stories from Robinhood I love is that the deposit amounts from people with iOS were twice the ones from people with Android. And their assumption was just, oh, like people with iPhone just have more money. So they're depositing more money. And…”
Narang: Toast was enabled by Android, cloud, and embedded payments
“Toast wouldn't exist without Android and cloud and, you know, and embedded payments. Like those were the three trends that really drove the beginnings of Toast.”
Snap saw accelerated global adoption after rebuilding its Android app
“So we rebuilt it from scratch. And, you know, because of that, we saw a huge acceleration in adoption across the world.”
Snap completely rewrote its Android app from scratch in 2018
“In, in 2018, you know, we took on this project to Basically rewrite the entire Android app from scratch.”
Supercell delayed the Android launch of Clash of Clans by two years
“Supercell launched Clash of Clans very famously only two years later on Android.”
Jain: Android Grew From Under 1M Total Users To 1M Daily New Users
“We had less than a million total users on Android at the time. It was a phenomenal journey for me to kind of see Android grow from less than a million total users to about a million new users a day.”