Android, every mention
205 scenes (2019), the whole family · ← back to Android
every year 2019 anyone Benedict Evans 307Steven Sinofsky 48Kyle Russell 33Michael Copeland 30Chris Dixon 25Kurt McMaster 10Frank Chen 8Balaji Srinivasan 8Alex Rampell 8Qasar Younis 6
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Android comes up
Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins
- ▶ 13:39 Sep Kamvar Now, a couple years ago a colleague of mine showed me an app that he built that enabled people to use the camera on their Android phone to take a picture of their eye. 2 times in the scene
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 10:26 Chris Dixon It's 90% plus of the computers in the world, every data center, AWS, Android phones, uh, open source is a very similar governance model, so just, if this sounds really utopian, just, I would just say, like, it's really, like, how 90% of…
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 3:31 Chris Dixon You could focus on recruiting drivers and building, like, a beautiful UI, and, and to me, like, I mean, obviously the iPhone, there's a bunch of great things about the iPhone and Android and what made smartphones take off, but a lot of it…
- ▶ 26:18 Chris Dixon Every, you know, the bulk of the software in your iOS phone, the bulk of your software in your Android phone, every data center.
- ▶ 42:53 Olaf Carlson-Wee Um, and so there's, um, the, the project Sello that's working on first a kind of low-level stablecoin designed for payments and remittances, um, as well as an Android kind of mobile first application designed for, uh, folks that don't have…
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 0:57 unnamed speaker So maybe let's just start with the world in which we live today, which is, you know, I use my iPhone or my Android phone.
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 26:49 Benedict Evans And pull people, you know, another way in which there are better games on iOS than there are on Android.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 19:26 Qasar Younis CarPlay and Android Auto are early indications of that.
- ▶ 46:15 Qasar Younis Any, anything that exists both on Android and iOS is in some way a cross-platform horizontal play, right?
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 44:53 Frank Chen Or think about the Android ecosystem.
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 2:46 Chris Dixon Mainstream thing, but it hadn't happened, and then of course the iPhone, 2007, Android.
- ▶ 12:57 Chris Dixon I was watching recently the, if you watch all the, ah, Justice Department stuff from, like, the late nineties, early 2000, Microsoft, they talk about Java the whole time, they never once talked about Linux, and Linux, look, every Android…
- ▶ 22:57 Chris Dixon Thanks to Apple and Android and things, and then also innovation that happened on the PC side, like Steam, you saw the kind of micropayment model, right?
a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
- ▶ 34:09 Meg Whitman And, you know, our sort of aspiration is, if you think about what Apple and Android have done for photography on mobile, we need to do that for video on mobile with them.
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 10:31 Fred Wilson But I don't understand why the map on your phone, whether it's an iPhone or an Android phone, isn't the ride-sharing application.
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 6:00 Benedict Evans Um, equally, um, HTC were the first people to make Android smartphones, or the first people to make Android smartphones, but HTC turned not to have the right positioning in the marketplace to take all the rewards from that. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 1:30 Benedict Evans Apple's implementation of the Android screen, okay, this is kind of a big, a decent deal.
- ▶ 8:04 Steven Sinofsky It's optimization, but imagine now you're, you're a Android vendor and now where's your flagship phone compete on price? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Steven Sinofsky Ship after the iPhone, which is going to be available in, like, 10 days or whatever, and they're going to be on Android phones that have no Android optimized for anything that, that they do, that they do, so you won't even know, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:30 Benedict Evans Which, most of the Android ones don't.
- ▶ 24:57 Benedict Evans But you can get an Android phone for 30 dollars today. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:03 Steven Sinofsky What's happening to Apple right now is at a scale that, that you just, it, it's unprecedented in many different ways, and people go, oh, but Android is even bigger, and Android is bigger, but what's not, it's not happening at that scale. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 3:08 Chris Dixon Um, it has a built-in high-quality camera, my iPhone does, or your Android phone does, right?
- ▶ 21:15 Chris Dixon Android, Twitter, Facebook, I think Google Search in a lot of ways can be seen as a platform because you build websites that get, you know, that get shown on the, in the search results.
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- ▶ 25:25 Ben Horowitz And so what Udacity has come up with is this thing, the nano degree, which is two months, three months, you can learn to program an Android phone or build a self-driving car or learn to do technical marketing.
a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- ▶ 4:52 Darshan Shankar Go is a dedicated device, so it strips out all the pieces of Android and a phone that gets in the way of making a really great VR experience.
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- ▶ 10:00 Frank Chen So today we do lots of over-the-air updates to our iPhones and Androids and to Windows.
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 6:10 Benedict Evans But then you think, okay, does this need to have Android on it?
- ▶ 7:08 Steven Sinofsky Memory sticks will go in all of your products, and it was absolutely a board level kind of thing, whereas it, Samsung, just like the whiteboard showed, you know, it's not clear yet that, like, Android has to be in everything, but it is…
- ▶ 27:36 Steven Sinofsky But part of what they did is, it's the Android thing, where it's just, it's free to make your commodity device be different.
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 12:46 Benedict Evans Um, and this is sort of, you know, you get to the kind of the 200 dollar device, the 200 dollar PC here, and there's sort of, there's one narrative that says, well, of course, that should be an iPad, or it should be a cheap Android tablet,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:07 Benedict Evans And as you go to a sandbox model of iOS, or to a lesser extent, Android, you take a whole step change in the management cost of having, how you deal with that device. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:54 Steven Sinofsky And that actually introduces one other dimension to this, which is, while IT and enterprise is very focused on building browser-based apps for the past, say, five or seven years and migrating, the other thing is they're under a lot of…
- ▶ 30:42 Steven Sinofsky And I think it's going to be really interesting to see how Chromebook evolves, because I kind of feel like the Android step was a step backwards when they really had like the exact right device that everybody wants.
a16z Podcast | How Founders Hire a VP of Product
- ▶ 2:37 Gokul Rajaram A lot of product development teams are organized organically based on engineers, based on skill sets, based on iOS versus Android versus whatever it is, skill sets and so on.
a16z Podcast | Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
- ▶ 23:29 Brandon Ballinger This is the way speech recognition works on Android phones, is that obviously data is coming in continuously every time someone says, okay, Google, or hey, Siri.
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 5:25 Benedict Evans How far does Google go in competing with Android OEMs? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:25 Tim O'Reilly I, you know, and where, but that logic ends up where, again, just as with the Android case, you gave up where you've ended up taking more and more of the valuable properties and you end up becoming a, you know, a destination platform.
- ▶ 18:35 Tim O'Reilly Uh, I, uh, an Android phone, and I tend to live in Android because I have a suite of apps with my data. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 4:25 Chris Dixon Android's a platform.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 10:32 Benedict Evans There's an equivalent one, which is people say Google doesn't make any money from Android. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:11 Steven Sinofsky And I think that that's an interesting contrast, say, with Android, where they also had the platform, where
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 8:07 unnamed speaker I never, I still don't have an iPhone, I have an Android, but I still remember to this day, the first thing people would say, I'm like, I don't really like the iPhone that much, and they're like, oh, it's not about the phone, it's all… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
- ▶ 4:17 Connie Chan So the closest Western parallel would be when Google announced their instant apps, when Google announced instant apps. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 6:14 Martin Casado It's actually, from, from my conversations, it's almost somewhat of a contrarian view, because traditionally you're like, open source projects chase after basically the sales dollars that have matured to market, like MySQL, you know, like…
a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 5:55 Chris Dixon I mean, it's, you know, it's Android.
a16z Podcast | Eyes in the Sky
- ▶ 19:12 unnamed speaker A few years ago, if you had a drone, you also usually had this giant box that you wheeled around with you called a ground control station, and it had joysticks, and it had this screen, and all of that is being replaced for most drone…
a16z Podcast | Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services
- ▶ 8:56 Frederick Karest So you can now leverage a lot of what's available in the iOS, in the Android operating systems in terms of the profile, which means you can provide a much richer experience.
a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- ▶ 12:13 Frank Chen It's much more important whether you own an iPhone or an Android phone and what set of apps you use than whether you drive a Ford or a BMW or whatever.
a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
- ▶ 24:32 Gaurav Dhillon Somebody else might decide to do it in Android because they might be doing it in Asia and they might have more fluency with Android. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 3:07 unnamed speaker And so what we did is we put a little bottom bar of navigation, these like tab bars on both platforms, Android and iOS, that bring the core features of the app to the surface.
- ▶ 16:38 Sonal Chokshi One of my biggest pet peeves, cause I'm a dedicated Android user, is how you have the most frequent calls, people you call, the order keeps shifting.
- ▶ 28:27 Luke Wroblewski And then we came back into app stores and now we have this thing, instant apps, which is kind of an app inside of a web browser, but it's really an app.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 2:28 Steven Sinofsky I'm super interested, of course, in the, in the pixel, you know, comparison, pixel plus Android, and then the Windows devices plus the OS there, because they're very similar on the outside, but very different in that the ecosystem around… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:59 Benedict Evans Is the reach problem here that they weren't able to get their services out in a timely way onto Android phones? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:16 Benedict Evans Mobile defined as ARM, iOS, Android, um, Unix-based, or you can argue about the operating system, but ARM and mobile and touch is the new generation of computing, and Microsoft basically failed to, to, to make headway, and that has written…
- ▶ 25:59 Benedict Evans They, they announced this new thing in a new Samsung phone, and Android developers are like, well, that's one of 850 phones that my users have got, so why would I support it?
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 1:15 Kyle Russell Kind of bringing it to the rest of the Android ecosystem. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:54 Kyle Russell So they have a reference design for the headset that they're just shipping to other Android makers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:00 Chris Dixon They were the first ones to do a deal with Android, whatever it was, 10 years ago. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 7:49 Benedict Evans Whereas when you are at Android or at Samsung, you've got that kind of disconnected experience where it's not all linked together.
- ▶ 14:33 Benedict Evans And the Apple AirPods use, yes, there's this clever secret sauce we've talked about, but you can use the Apple AirPods, the Bluetooth headphone, with an Android phone.
- ▶ 33:00 Steven Sinofsky Very similar to Benedict's point about at this volume, it's perfectly viable to have two platforms, like Android and iOS, and it's just as viable to have Apple's, you know, arm and everybody else's arm. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 28:20 Fred Benenson Android, on the other hand, their moya emoji looks like the Tokyo station one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:11 Fred Benenson But it's actually up to your computer's operating system, whether it's OSX or iOS or Android or whatever, to go fish out a little image and put it on your screen. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:22 Sonal Chokshi Because one of the things that I noticed is that you, an Apple, cause I use an Android, so I didn't notice this.
- ▶ 44:45 Jenny Lee Um, you know, Microsoft Windows and can talk to like an Android device, can talk to your Mac laptop.
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 12:10 Marc Andreessen You know, that it would have to be Google or Apple that does these kind of natural language or interface advances because they own iOS and Android.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 13:59 Alex Rampell Then it remorphed as Google Wallet, and then Google Wallet didn't work because that was entirely focused offline, but then this little thing called Android took off, and then the reason why Google Wallet now, I think, has not just a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Charlie Wurzel It feels like another example to me of this world of ecosystems with, you know, big technology companies, and, you know, you buy, you buy into a specific ecosystem, and you just keep drilling down, okay, you know, I have my, my Android… 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 25:15 Kyle Russell So now that, you know, kind of the spectrum is complete with Facebook across all platforms, Google with Android, now Apple on iOS and its other software platforms, uh, it's clear that these trends are only going to continue going forward.
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 7:19 Kyle Russell So there was Allo, which was a brand new, separate from Hangouts, messaging application, specifically for mobile, iOS, and Android. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:38 Kyle Russell And there was also things like instant applications where in the same way that you load a web app today by just going to a URL and it shows up and it's just, you know, a website that you go to, you can do the same thing with native… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:14 Steven Sinofsky And, and that's like, so that's a state that's completely unstable, and you could view that as, wow, iMessage isn't on Android, or you could view it as Android really doesn't do emoji well enough, or you could view it as none of the ones… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:48 Kyle Russell Uh, the connection to the underlying data platform is pretty clear, but there, you know, there was another set of announcements that felt a little bit removed from that core competency, that core focus, uh, the core strategy, as I… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:04 Kyle Russell Uh, that all of the big Android OEMs will be able to build a top of, make their own headsets, essentially competing with the Gear VR. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:09 Benedict Evans Now, what Google have now said is, um, and really interestingly, it goes all, not just in the next version of Android, but in, on every version of Android back to, I think, KitKat, which is like the vast majority of Android devices.
- ▶ 21:22 Kyle Russell Uh, but now they're kind of pushing in that direction, you know, with a daydream reference design that they're going to give access to, to all the different Android OEMs so they can make their own headsets, basically at this Gear VR tier,… 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 12:51 Steven Sinofsky And, and I definitely noticed that because I switched to an Android phone this week, later in the week, just to experience what's missing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:23 Benedict Evans There's three billion iOS and Android devices on Earth.
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 4:02 Benedict Evans Oh crap, we're running on top of Android and iOS, what do we do about that?
a16z Podcast | Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
- ▶ 15:42 Martin Casado If I look at Android, even though that wasn't a standalone independent company, you know, Palm and, and Blackberry and iPhone created this massive market.
a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
- ▶ 34:00 Shaka Senghor Um, so when I came out, and, and, you know, I was so ambitious though, right, so I told, I told Ebony, I was like, you know, I want an Android, that's like, I saw, that's like the, the fanciest touch screen, because that's the only…
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 1:12 Michael Copeland It's a sort of Android world, really, is what it's come to, or it used to be the Nokia world, but put that in context.
- ▶ 5:50 Benedict Evans Um, which is sort of function of the dynamic of the Android market, which is everyone selling a commodity product with commodity components and a commodity operating system. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:20 Benedict Evans And so, but what this symbolizes is this question of what happens to the future of the Android OEM space. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:37 Benedict Evans Can you create some differentiation around brand, around the design of the handset, around the software that you load onto it, maybe using Cyanogen, which is our portfolio company, to create something nice on top of Android. 10 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | 'In the Eye of a Tornado': Views on Innovation from China
- ▶ 12:43 Clay Shirky And Xiaomi has invested enormously in what's called MIUI, their, their, their version of Android. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:04 Clay Shirky I think on the Android side, that answers your question, Sunal, which is, there is not going to be one premium product. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 0:40 Sonal Chokshi Nkiru is our next guest, and she is the CEO of Spinlet, a digital media company that focuses on African-centric music and has music available on iOS, Android, and also via web browser, and we'll talk more about why about that later.
- ▶ 12:29 unnamed speaker Of course, with the new, with Androids now becoming much cheaper, we're seeing that penetration is becoming higher, but it's still not catching up as quickly as we're hoping. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
- ▶ 36:36 Orion Hindawi If that doesn't work, then I think we're gonna have to see where iOS and Android and Windows Phone go, because they continue to be unmanageable.
a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
- ▶ 18:34 Steven Sinofsky And then there's Android for cars and Apple and then Apple CarPlay.
a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
- ▶ 21:15 Roger Dickey Ah, ok so, you know, what platform is this, iOS or Android?
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 3:40 Benedict Evans And those are all kind of things that should sit on top of this new platform of sort of, um, iOS, Android, doing over one and a half billion units this year, and probably over three billion of those things in the world today.
- ▶ 6:07 Benedict Evans Now there is, then there is another question, and this is one of the reasons why the control of Android is interesting, and why Xiaomi is interesting, and, and, and so on. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:45 Benedict Evans Um, Google Android has got, say, one and a half billion. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:38 Benedict Evans They're not in the business of selling Android phones. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:30 Benedict Evans And so you have Office on iPad and you have Office on Android and basically what Microsoft is doing now