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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Apple comes up
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 21:30 Steph Smith You might recognize him as one of the co-founders of Apple and one of the most impactful engineers and inventors of our time. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:51 Steve Wozniak We got to Steve jobs, his apple too, was really the iPod music music. 2 times in the scene
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 1:07:57 Chris Power It's like GPS, you know, sort of like space invented Google maps or Apple maps.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:29:29 Balaji Srinivasan Another way of doing it, which is actually not thought of as such, but it's really important, is a cloud-based international regulator like Amazon, eBay, actually even Gmail, Apple, et cetera.
- ▶ 2:15:15 Balaji Srinivasan Making Blackberry into Apple, you couldn't do it.
- ▶ 2:32:58 Balaji Srinivasan So you have Larry Page in Google, you have Zuckerberg in Facebook, you have Steve Jobs in Apple, you have Bill Gates in Microsoft, you have Jeff Bezos in Amazon. 2 times in the scene
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 1:05:11 Steph Smith I've heard people talk about this, and it sounds like, I might be wrong, because I've just, you know, just listening to another podcast, but it likely would have to be at the hardware level, as in run by, like, Apple or Google, etc.,…
- ▶ 1:10:58 Karen X. Cheng And then like, even two years ago, I was like, I really, really, really, really want to make a commercial for the Apple iPhone.
Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- ▶ 0:33 Steph Smith Yes, that is the Steve Wozniak that you recognize from Apple, whose latest venture is focusing on cleaning up the next frontier. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:25 Steph Smith Um, to your point earlier, starting Apple was not about building one of the biggest businesses in the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:11 Steve Wozniak When we started Apple, you know, we had a great product. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:57 Steve Wozniak And then there was some, um, you know, some of that invention stuff we got to Steve jobs is apple too, was really the iPod music, music. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:03 Alex Fielding They were already pieces of trash, and we were building GPS locators that were similar to Apple tags, 20 years too early. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:51 Alex Fielding We've known each other for a long time, but I will say working between him and getting to work with Steve Jobs back, uh, back in my time at Apple, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:17 Alex Fielding And he was moonlighting, working on his designs for Apple I and Apple II. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:17 Alex Fielding And he was moonlighting, working on his designs for Apple I and Apple II. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:28 Alex Fielding But I'm going through it page by page as an engineer and looking at every trace and every chip that he hand drew on every page for Apple one and Apple two, and then in assembler for Apple ROM and Apple DOS.
"Crypto Startup School" Documentary
- ▶ 11:44 Meta Katari The idea is, like, finding an easy way to bridge from something like Venmo or, like, Apple Pay or something.
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 25:21 John Riccitiello Um, you know, Tencent is arguably in the same league, for those of you who aren't as familiar, with a Facebook, a Google, a Microsoft, or an Apple in terms of market cap and market impact and what they do.
- ▶ 30:50 John Riccitiello Um, the music industry and its, its way of working is transformed fundamentally around Spotify, Pandora, and other music services, Apple and others have them. 2 times in the scene
The Latest in Cyber Attacks
- ▶ 13:55 Martin Casado Apple devices tend to be pretty secure. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:03 Martin Casado I really don't have a four bedroom house, you know, but in there, I have a Nest, a Sonos, Apple TV, an Oculus, a Nintendo Switch, and I have no idea, even though I've been a security person, if any of those things are compromised.
Any Company Can Offer Financial Services
- ▶ 5:48 Angela Strange Apple just launched a credit card. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:48 Angela Strange Apple just launched a credit card. 2 times in the scene
Explaining AI
- ▶ 6:42 Harry Shum I assume that many of us in the room probably have seen, uh, uh, DHH's tweets a few days ago about Apple car and created by Goldman Sachs.
- ▶ 8:51 Harry Shum If you think about Apple and Microsoft, and you think about the Cupertino and the Redmond, you say, well, they really very, very much strongly correlated. 2 times in the scene
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 8:50 Chris Dixon It was Apple in, you know, Cupertino, and a lot of- 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:06 Chris Dixon I mean, we see with Apple and the FBI and things like this, just like encryption in general.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 11:59 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, for, this is kind of a cliche at this point, but like air, you know, the Apple AirPods, I think were a fundamental breakthrough.
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 6:49 Chris Dixon You probably use, I bet you use WhatsApp and a bunch of other thing, you know, Apple texting and things more than use email or as much or, so anyway, so this is another way to look at it.
Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B
- ▶ 4:34 unnamed speaker In the consumer world, you really care about brand, think Coca-Cola, think Apple, where in the enterprise, it's much more about business sales, and the economics, the way we value them, are very different.
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 18:31 Chris Dixon And those are kind of the equivalent of the Apple or two or the iPhone or whatever in this world. 3 times in the scene
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 1:11:59 Frank Chen Knowledge Navigator is this Apple proof of concept of intelligent assistance, right?
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 0:45 unnamed speaker Google's a great place, or Apple's a great place. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 39:58 Safi Bahcall So when Steve Jobs started his first time at Apple, he was exactly like that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:09 Safi Bahcall So the Lisa that he tried to earn was a flop, the Apple III when it was a flop, and when he developed the Macintosh, although it was a, you know, phenomenal ad that goes down in the history of advertising,
- ▶ 40:09 Safi Bahcall So the Lisa that he tried to earn was a flop, the Apple III when it was a flop, and when he developed the Macintosh, although it was a, you know, phenomenal ad that goes down in the history of advertising,
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 0:04 Sonal Chokshi In this episode, another of our hallway conversations, Benedict Evans and Steven Sanofsky go over the recent Apple event, Apple event plus, and consider what it all means in terms of big company strategy and the evolution of Apple moving…
- ▶ 0:42 Steven Sinofsky And today we're going to talk a little bit about the announcements at Apple's sort of new look event. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:12 Benedict Evans If you sort of sit and make a list of how many different places is Apple kind of putting a tap onto the tree, 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:40 Benedict Evans Uh, on, on their, on their, for their content on Apple News. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:28 Benedict Evans So they did four announcements. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:29 Benedict Evans So the first is that they've extended the existing news product, which has been, so they have this Apple news product, has been kind of a sleeper hit. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:59 Benedict Evans There's news plus.
- ▶ 9:01 Benedict Evans Then they have a credit card. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:07 Benedict Evans They've extended Apple pay and Apple cash with a credit card.
- ▶ 9:07 Benedict Evans They've extended Apple pay and Apple cash with a credit card.
- ▶ 9:29 Steven Sinofsky So, so the interesting thing for me about news, again, it comes back to, so Apple has, has like core values. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:44 Benedict Evans So in that context, moving to Apple, the Apple news product does actually solve a consumer problem. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 Steven Sinofsky It'll look a lot more like when they opened their Apple stores.
- ▶ 15:26 Steven Sinofsky And the fact that they have a TV device is very interesting.
- ▶ 15:56 Steven Sinofsky Apple card. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:13 Benedict Evans A lot of the TV questions are actually TV industry questions, not Apple or tech questions. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:53 Benedict Evans I think that kind of takes us onto the TV product, where we're sort of, sort of slightly hesitant about, I suppose the best way of putting it is to say, we're sort of reserving judgment on any kind of specifics, because we don't have the… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:06 Benedict Evans We know Apple, Apple has officially said, we're doing a TV service, we're going to get a bunch of really great people to make some fantastic TV. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:09 Benedict Evans And that sits next to news.
- ▶ 21:11 Benedict Evans It sits next to the card. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:04 Steven Sinofsky From Apple. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 Steven Sinofsky Is progressively reveal the strategy, like take something like the Apple card and the Apple cash that's in it, like Apple cash came out and everybody's like, why would I ever use this? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 Steven Sinofsky Is progressively reveal the strategy, like take something like the Apple card and the Apple cash that's in it, like Apple cash came out and everybody's like, why would I ever use this? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:59 Steven Sinofsky And then last week, they just, or earlier in the week, they made the change that now you can pay off your bills using Apple, which now it's all starting to come together. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:19 Benedict Evans So they start with a fingerprint reader before the year, before they do Apple pay, it's really obvious they're going to do Apple pay, but they do the fingerprint reader first. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:19 Benedict Evans We forgot to mention the game sync. 3 times in the scene
Network Effects: Categories & Debates (2 of 3)
- ▶ 6:48 unnamed speaker And I think Apple has done the same thing. 2 times in the scene
3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
- ▶ 45:34 Alex Rampell If we don't buy this, and Apple does,
Security Markets: The Lay of the Land
- ▶ 2:55 unnamed speaker If you look at what Apple has done with their iOS devices, the fact that it is a walled garden to some extent, they've built a lot of security capabilities into those devices.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 19:26 Qasar Younis CarPlay and Android Auto are early indications of that.
- ▶ 26:07 Sonal Chokshi There will always be an apple in every ecosystem.
- ▶ 45:56 Sonal Chokshi There aren't really big, horizontal, huge, like Apples and Googles, they're vertical companies.
a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
- ▶ 1:06 Marc Andreessen So part of your origin story, if I recall correctly, is that you started writing software for the Apple II while you were still in college. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12 Bobby Kotick So my college roommate and I started a company, he worked at Apple Computer in France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21 Bobby Kotick He was working for a guy called Jean-Louis Gasset, and they had a prototype of the Lisa, and... 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:12 Bobby Kotick And at the end of it, he's like, you're gonna make this for a new computer that we're gonna build called the Apple IIgs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:51 Bobby Kotick And I had been working, making software for, among other companies, Apple and Commodore.
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 6:04 Ryan Caldbeck There's a quote in one of the Apple movies. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- ▶ 22:27 Joel Monegro We have, uh, the, the big tech companies of today, Google, uh, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and so on.
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 3:46 Steven Sinofsky I mean, a lot was made of Apple didn't even show up, and they just put up a sign, but Apple's never been there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:29 Benedict Evans Apple is doing this with rounded corners on the phone, but you can have it in all sorts of rounded shapes and then just place that on a product.
- ▶ 15:19 Steven Sinofsky And so people had hoped that, you know, like an Apple TV would do that, or a Roku would do that, or a TiVo would do that.
- ▶ 16:29 Benedict Evans And, but you don't have, like, what happened with smartphones was kind of the phone people didn't understand Apple, and Apple kind of didn't understand the phone people, but it didn't matter. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:18 Benedict Evans And that's where we're seeing, like, the connective tissue emerging, which is the Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple relaunching HomeKit.
- ▶ 24:18 Benedict Evans And that's where we're seeing, like, the connective tissue emerging, which is the Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple relaunching HomeKit.
- ▶ 28:26 Benedict Evans So it's a switch you can flip on your chip, and they say, right, the chips that we're going to give you next year will have Alexa and Google Assistant and maybe HomeKit in there. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:16 Steven Sinofsky One was what Apple tried with HomeKit, which was, well, we really want it to work. 2 times in the scene
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 0:06 Frank Chen I feel like I have won the golden ticket to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, because look, if you're in Silicon Valley, the one chocolate factory you want, you're desperate to go visit, is Apple. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:55 Frank Chen So, maybe talk a little bit about how, ah, you ended up at Apple, because like, on paper, ah, you don't look like the typical software engineer.
- ▶ 5:59 Ken Kocienda And that, uh, that, that, that got me an introduction to Apple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:31 Ken Kocienda The, the way that Apple worked in this period, uh, during the Steve Jobs era is that he would set this vision. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:06 Ken Kocienda It's Apple's own browser. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:48 Frank Chen Mac OS is one of the many products that Mac, or that Apple was shipping at the time, and so like, it's a, it was, it seems unusual that the CEO would be involved in this many demo points, and how important do you think that is to sort of. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:55 Frank Chen So this is a great part of Apple that's sort of very different than most Silicon Valley companies, which is in most Silicon Valley companies, if you get assigned to another project, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:30 Ken Kocienda Uh, and we, we had what was really quite unusual, uh, really unique in my experience at Apple, is that, uh, this was judged to be, that the development of the software keyboard was judged to be a, a, a sufficiently high risk
- ▶ 43:07 Frank Chen It's secret, more secret than sort of other parts of Apple, and at one point, you decided, um, as you were refining the autocorrect algorithm, that there were actually experts outside of the purple team that might be able to help, but of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:45 Frank Chen And so, I, I want to get right into this because, so look, Apple was famous for having exquisite taste around the design trade-offs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:17 Ken Kocienda The, you know, to get back to this, this point I mentioned before of the top down and the bottom up, uh, as I mentioned, except for this very brief, uh, uh, interlude where I was a manager, uh, throughout my whole Apple career, over 15…
- ▶ 1:08:16 Ken Kocienda He had, he was envisioning himself, uh, that, uh, being in an Apple store. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:36 Frank Chen Like, do you think that ever became part of the Apple culture? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:14 Ken Kocienda Well, obviously from the beginning, even though multi-touch was something that shipped even in the first Apple product, there was no way that you could have sophisticated gestures, uh, multi-finger gestures on a, on a screen that size, but… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:59 Ken Kocienda So you're, you know, you launch mail 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:08 Frank Chen But your own background and other people at Apple who've sort of had the valued liberal arts and engineering degree, talk about, like, what are the advantages