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Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 45:17 Erik Torenberg So you're, you're sort of optimistic or that this is a solvable problem that they can decrease, that Apple can decrease its dependency and figure out whether it's French whoring or something. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:39 Erik Torenberg And gearing towards closing here, you know, it, it felt inevitable to me, sort of, that Apple, you know, would become this, uh, even much bigger than it is today in the sense of, I remember reading the stat of, like, Wait, I'm sorry, much… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:58 Steven Sinofsky Apple's advantage has been their ability to maintain the intellectual property of, of components and manufacturing and assembly.
AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense
- ▶ 15:01 David Mytton So a couple of years ago, Apple announced Privacy Pass. 3 times in the scene
What You Missed in AI This Week (Google, Apple, ChatGPT)
- ▶ 0:57 Justine Moore And Apple's big AI announcements.
- ▶ 10:28 Olivia Moore And, and all of the things that they announced around AI. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:32 Olivia Moore And the fact that I think that people have been so far somewhat disappointed by Apple Intelligence, which is their bundled set of AI features.
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 18:39 Ben Horowitz And the thing that I would, um, the, the analogy for me has, has kind of been Apple, where 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:54 Marc Andreessen And then lesson number two is Apple, uh, where you, where the lesson is you, 100% always want to vertically integrate. 2 times in the scene
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 15:24 Vijay Pande So like, you know, why do people buy Apple products or like, you know, Google UI?
- ▶ 27:02 Daisy Wolf Their NPS is four, and so we ventured to say, what if you had that business model married with the consumer experience of Apple?
- ▶ 30:42 Steph Smith Is there the possibility, I mean, you, you talked about maybe like the apple of healthcare, or you talked about payments and, you know, kind of replicating in some way what Visa's been able to achieve. 4 times in the scene
Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
- ▶ 42:38 Ion Stoica And the reason for that was at that time, it was at the end of the previous century, it was Microsoft was dominating, and then Apple, and then of course there are some free BSD and so forth.
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
- ▶ 4:31 Guido Appenzeller That's the value of Apple computer or something like that.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 3:57 Marc Andreessen You know, all these, um, um, uh, was it, um, uh, Bill Draper, like all the, you know, Arthur Rock, like, you know, these guys for me are like legends, because, you know, they just, you know, the fact that they could go out and source a Bob…
- ▶ 41:38 Ben Horowitz Um, and you know, it's great because we were able, like, if you look at the top people, you know, if you look at Martine Cassato and Chris Dixon and Alex Rampell and David Ulovich and so forth, like that team is better, like IQ wise…
- ▶ 1:05:38 Marc Andreessen And you say, I was just talking about it, you go to the Gucci store, you know, to buy your scarf, you go to the Apple store to buy your iPhone. 2 times in the scene
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 18:04 Qasar Younis Versus Apple, or versus Android, and, you know, it's very hard to imagine they, they can outpace the commercial side.
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 15:56 Zeno Rocha And that's because on the system prompt, we told, you know, the LLM to build Apple-like emails with curved borders and black and white vibes versus, you know, go crazy.
- ▶ 25:00 Zeno Rocha For example, access to your file system, you know, to Apple APIs that are running on your desktop.
- ▶ 25:31 Zeno Rocha So go to Apple Notes, grab my notes, and then do this other thing. 2 times in the scene
Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
- ▶ 1:28 Olivia Moore So like a Siri or an Alexa, it might be connected to kind of a basic set of integrations within the Apple ecosystem or within the Amazon ecosystem.
- ▶ 33:32 Steph Smith What do you think in terms of the incumbent's potential to capture this consumer market, whether it's, you know, Google or Apple?
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
- ▶ 1:24:23 Ankit Kumar That's why Apple is so, is so dominant and so successful is that it is an amazing product experience. 2 times in the scene
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 21:21 Martin Casado And, and, and, and, and maybe Apple too, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:18 Steven Sinofsky And then you look at Apple and their strategy, which the execution hasn't been great, but the idea that all of these things will just surface as features popping up all over my phone and they're not going to cost anything.
Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business: How Games Power the Future
- ▶ 12:56 unnamed speaker So obviously Apple vision pro made huge progress this year with eye tracking, but we are going to see BCI type technology that reads energy signals from your brain to actually control and interact with, uh, with the computer and the…
The 2025 AI Search Race
- ▶ 1:39 Alex Immerman In the case of Apple, tens of billions of dollars, uh, is monopolistic.
- ▶ 5:48 Alex Immerman It also means more users means more advertisers, more profit dollars that you can invest back in the service or into ensuring that, you know, Apple puts them as the default provider.
- ▶ 11:52 Alex Immerman And maybe to that end, Apple 4 times in the scene
Can We Detect a Deepfake?
- ▶ 19:46 Vijay Balasubramaniyan Because if you think about it, the closest example is Apple released its model, you know, that could run on device.
The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
- ▶ 24:26 unnamed speaker Your forty-ninety, or like some 48, any GPU consumer, or even your Apple, your phone, your laptop, right?
- ▶ 46:22 Jeff Schmidt And also like what Apple's doing with our MLX platform and their, and their Apple Silicon, like that's amazing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:22 Jeff Schmidt And also like what Apple's doing with our MLX platform and their, and their Apple Silicon, like that's amazing.
- ▶ 46:22 Jeff Schmidt And also like what Apple's doing with our MLX platform and their, and their Apple Silicon, like that's amazing.
Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
- ▶ 13:05 Alexandr Wang Apple can easily recoup the investments if it drives an upgrade cycle.
“The Future of AI is Here” — Fei-Fei Li Unveils the Next Frontier of AI
- ▶ 37:53 Fei-Fei Li Just around the time WorldLab was, uh, um, being formed, uh, Vision Pro was released by Apple, and, uh, they used the word spatial computing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:53 Fei-Fei Li Just around the time WorldLab was, uh, um, being formed, uh, Vision Pro was released by Apple, and, uh, they used the word spatial computing.
- ▶ 41:37 Justin Johnson Um, so I, I've been excited about this space for a long time, and I, I love the Vision Pro. 2 times in the scene
Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- ▶ 3:32 Mark Casey One's down a little, Apple.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 27:14 Ben Horowitz And even, you know, with something like Apple, like you build an application, they get 30% of the money.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 35:42 Marc Andreessen And then Apple had something at the time called eWorld. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:42 Ben Horowitz Like the smartphones are, you know, everybody pays a tax to download their app from the App Store because Apple owns it.
Zach Perret (Plaid) & Simon Khalaf (Marqeta): New Applications in Fintech
- ▶ 12:30 Angela Strange And I think, as Simon mentioned, right now, the big innovation in card is we've moved from the physical card to now it's at least in my Apple wallet to the point where I forget my regular wallet most of the time.
- ▶ 13:51 Simon Khalaf Now that's going to put a lot of power in the hands of the wallet owners, like the ones that are embedded in the, in the device, like Apple and Google, because they can build that technology that will select a payment card and basically do…
- ▶ 19:02 Simon Khalaf The innovation is going to be in the wallet side, because if you look at what Apple Pay has done, it is a personal, individual checkout that works in every country, in every merchant, in every location.
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 16:41 Ben Horowitz Um, this is why, you know, HP ended up being totally vulnerable to Apple, um, because Apple was still building computers and HP was assembling computers and GM is assembling cars and Elon completely kind of re-engineered how you build a… 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen Compare the AI Boom Vs. Internet Boom
- ▶ 9:21 Ben Horowitz And then even with the smartphone, like the re you know, why is the Apple computer, um, smartphone so dominant?
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 1:07:11 Ben Horowitz And then even with the smartphone, like the re you know, why is the Apple computer, um, smartphone so dominant?
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 21:52 Marc Andreessen By the way, also for people who haven't seen, you know, the DOJ just, uh, filed a massive antitrust lawsuit against Apple. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:33 Marc Andreessen And so they would also be opposed to things like the Apple lawsuit that a lot of startup founders might actually like.
- ▶ 52:18 Ben Horowitz It's actually a very interesting point and kind of, I think essential for people to understand is that the way Meta is thinking about this and the way that they're actually behaving and executing is very similar to how Google thought about… 2 times in the scene
America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 25:06 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, you know, when these, was it Apple? 4 times in the scene
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 4:16 Kathleen Hicks It's more than what Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft combined spent on R&D last year.
- ▶ 12:35 Kathleen Hicks DIU is now led by a former direct report to Apple CEO.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 17:37 Chris Dixon Um, Apple charges 30% for the right to just simply distribute your app basically.
- ▶ 27:01 Chris Dixon Oh yeah, he did say, but compare it to like, look what Apple's doing now.
- ▶ 27:09 Chris Dixon For, um, Vision Pro because they're, you know, the Spotify's of the world because they'd been so screwed over.
- ▶ 59:16 Chris Dixon So specifically you think about Apple stock and there are people including the management of Apple who have information that is relevant to the price of the stock.
2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
- ▶ 18:37 Jonathan Lai With the rise of services like Xbox Game Pass, Apple Arcade, and even inside individual games like Fortnite, they now have season subscriptions like, uh, like the Battle Pass, where you play for a certain period of time, and you subscribe…
Redefining Partnership with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 7:30 Adam Neumann He started two months before he joined us, because he was such a professional, he had a call with us every two days, just to make sure he's coming in very ready, interviewed all the engineers in advance, told us who he liked and who he…
Big Ideas in 2024: Voice-First Apps Will Become Integral to Our Lives with Anish Acharya
- ▶ 3:38 unnamed speaker And yet, despite a lot of investment from a lot of big companies, we're talking Amazon, Google, Apple feels like we're still waiting and you address that.
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 3:40 Jason Gardner So what we found through lots of discussions was that every terminal, whether online or offline, whether you swipe a card, insert a card, tap a phone, actually, you know, the Apple Pay wasn't even out by then.
The Calculus of Success
- ▶ 5:59 Steph Smith Apple released their Vision Pro, or at least, you know, showed the world what was coming. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:59 Steph Smith Apple released their Vision Pro, or at least, you know, showed the world what was coming.
Dunking in VR: Inside the Future of Sports
- ▶ 9:12 unnamed speaker Maybe we can jump to the technical aspect because there's been, you know, the Apple vision pro has the announcement has come out soon.
- ▶ 15:43 unnamed speaker Um, in the short term, I think it's all going to be about how VR connects to mobile, whether through content or gameplay, and, and that's where I think Apple's in a really great spot.
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 13:57 Ben Horowitz So like, you know, as a matter of fact, you know, Spotify, Apple music, Amazon music, I'll have the catalog today.
Improving AI with Anthropic's Dario Amodei
- ▶ 13:59 Dario Amodei Apple's terms of service, and they're, they're very vanilla.
AI Hardware, Explained.
- ▶ 11:17 unnamed speaker For example, an Apple M-one chip from twenty-twenty-two 2 times in the scene
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
- ▶ 26:46 Gina Gotthelf Or like at Duolingo, we'd be like, oh, you know, we told Apple that we're actually going to make this sprint, and now that's, that's there, so we just have to do it, and so suddenly it's not like something that like can be pushed because…
More Than a Game: Why Are We Obsessed With Sports?
- ▶ 41:29 Que Gaskins You know, we're all, well not all, but a lot of us are wearing Apple watches, we got the rings, we got all this other stuff that's constantly tracking what we do.
Evolve or Die: The Future of the Creative Process, Artist Authenticity, and the Value of the Music
- ▶ 54:53 Piff Marti And the goal of all of these platforms, like Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, uh, Apple Music, is to have users use their app as long as possible.
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 1:03:50 Marc Andreessen Microsoft thinks about PCs, or Apple thinks about iPhones, or Intel thinks about chips, or Google thinks about search, or Facebook thinks about social, or the Coca-Cola company thinks about Coca-Cola, or Tesla thinks about cars.
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 1:52 Steph Smith Kodak and Instagram, Blackberry and Apple, and a lot more.
- ▶ 13:01 Salim Ismail Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon all successfully became platforms, and that business model basically carries you through because now you wire yourself into the infrastructure.
- ▶ 24:41 Salim Ismail Apple tapping into Foxconn as a manufacturing partner and not owning the manufacturing capability itself, but outsourcing it.
- ▶ 26:17 Salim Ismail Apple's interface to its app store developers or Uber to its drivers.
- ▶ 46:41 Salim Ismail Um, the, the master of this technique, by the way, is Apple. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:04 Steph Smith That's one of the ways that Apple has succeeded. 2 times in the scene
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
- ▶ 0:00 Carl Pei There's a lot of people like us who are tech fans out there and who remember being Apple fanboys and fangirls and now just feeling like the magic is lost and just wanting to recreate the magic. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:21 unnamed speaker I mean, if you look at the companies who do have strong market share in the phone market, you've got Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Google.
- ▶ 9:03 Carl Pei I think Apple today is one of those companies that still do it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:57 unnamed speaker Yeah, I mean, every startup has to find their wedge, and to your point, Apple itself, the iPhone used to be a more niche phone, catering to a more niche audience, and now they have to cater to literally everyone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:07 Carl Pei Like when you're in the Apple ecosystem, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:24 unnamed speaker Apple, if you think about, like, the iPhone that I own today has pretty much the same interface as the iPod Touch I had when I was, like, 10.
- ▶ 29:30 Carl Pei On community, I think the world is a very different place to when Apple started more than 40 years ago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:34 unnamed speaker Like you mentioned your first interactions with Apple products, but like what else from your childhood makes you think, 2 times in the scene
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 29:37 Sriram Krishnan One of the ways to think about it is your podcast is actually really hard because if you look at the native podcast platform, say just Apple, there is no discovery mechanism.
The Challenge of Replicating Reality with Steve Zhao from SandboxVR
- ▶ 32:50 Steph Smith And it reminds me, I think Apple in many occasions gets cheaper leases because yes, these Apple stores are almost just these central locations that attract so much foot traffic that it's beneficial to the landlords of these malls, et… 2 times in the scene
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 22:04 Amjad Masad Um, and that's why like Apple's this full stack company is because they think about everything from the transistor to the touch, right?
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 0:22 Steph Smith So look, a few weeks ago, Apple released a stunning statistic. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:57 Olivia Moore So I used an app data source called appfollow.io, and they publish a daily ranking chart where they show the top iOS apps every day, um, based on the Apple app store ranks.
- ▶ 7:24 Olivia Moore Apple is a little bit secretive about what actually makes a number one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:45 Olivia Moore And these kind of exploded after Apple made a change to iOS, that allowed users to put widgets on their home screen of their phone and also on their lock screen of their phone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:21 Olivia Moore I think it's a mix of like Apple Pay and Google Pay adoption and saturation, people getting more comfortable making purchases online.
- ▶ 31:35 Steph Smith But then this is another one, like paying attention to the different technology changes that Apple is releasing as potential layers that you can integrate into a new application.
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 10:03 Anish Acharya If you look at the NPS of Google, Apple, Facebook, all of these companies, you know, it's not just better than the NPS of, you know, their financial services companies and, you know, most media outlets.
- ▶ 47:18 Vijay Pande Imagine UnitedHealth Group, but with the user interface of Apple. 2 times in the scene