Apple, every mention
584 scenes (2019), the whole family · ← back to Apple
every year 2019 anyone Benedict Evans 820Steven Sinofsky 207Michael Copeland 205Alex Rampell 70Frank Chen 65Kyle Russell 61Marc Andreessen 52Chris Dixon 50Sonal Chokshi 33Erik Torenberg 32
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Apple comes up
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
- ▶ 1:26:40 Ken Kocienda Because that's what you do when you're, when you're a technologist and, say, a product company like Apple, um, you're gonna be making decisions on products that are then gonna go out in the world and are gonna be affecting other people.
- ▶ 1:28:41 Frank Chen Like, is the absence of those ingredients like a, like a, I'm not gonna join that company, or, right, how universal is the Apple experience is another way of asking this question versus how sort of specific to a set of characters and a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:18 Frank Chen The Apple experience down to, like, this is basically in, in, in reflection, this is what made the iPhone team so productive, and you talk about things like collaboration, and taste, and decisiveness. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:00 Frank Chen Look, the, the chocolate factory did not have very many people, so, uh, I feel really blessed that, you know, one of those people made it out and is willing to lead the tour, uh, and talk to us, and maybe that, that'll be the last question… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:06 Frank Chen Now having listened to sort of Ken describe what it was Apple, what, what Apple did.
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 23:29 Connie Chan You, you might be able to use Apple Pay and so forth.
a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
- ▶ 13:41 Anil Sethi Apple acquired it in a transaction, and some of the health records that we see them releasing it to the world,
- ▶ 15:10 Anil Sethi And it should be, eventually, something as easy as making a payment at Whole Foods with Apple Pay.
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 11:07 Marc Andreessen Like, if it's, like, look, I mean, if it's, like, a Gucci boutique, and it's a whole experience to go there, it's an Apple store, it's a, you know, it's got something where it's, like, there's, like, real magnetic appeal to the experience,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:45 Marc Andreessen Right, and so here the Apple Watch is clearly out in the lead with what they're doing with the heartbeat sensor.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 16:01 Brian McCullough Where would, if Apple launches the iPod, how does that eventually gain traction other than being something that then if Napster is popularized is just, you know, an accessory to Napster, right?
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 33:47 Meg Whitman And today, what you have to do, if you have an Apple iPhone, is you have to go to the brightness slider, you have to change it as you move about, and then you get back to your app. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Automation + Work, Human + Machine
- ▶ 12:35 Prasad Akella Think of line balancing across a 141 stations, which is what this Apple iPhone in my hand has built across.
a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game
- ▶ 10:40 unnamed speaker You know, the last time most of the big rights deals were up, you didn't have Facebook and Amazon and Apple bidding for them, and then you also have new rights categories.
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 48:23 Marc Andreessen Well, I agree with all that, but I would also say, even with what you just said, even that, like, yes, the Alto, but like, also, like, look, Apple made the iPhone, right?
a16z Podcast | How to Manage a PR Agency
- ▶ 4:57 Margit Wennmachers I mean, like, yeah, I don't think Apple has really used PR agencies.
a16z Podcast | New Upstarts in an Old Industry
- ▶ 18:39 Ben Horowitz You can't put that in Apple. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 3:27 Fred Wilson We're looking at ours in Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, you know, they have these massive entrenched, um, platforms, and
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 2:31 Benedict Evans Um, because one of the, kind of, the historical comparisons I use, where, of course, Stephen has, sort of, scars on his back around this, is that if you look at, for example, what Apple did in the PC industry, Apple contributed to creating… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:30 Benedict Evans So Apple was actually not the first company to sell a mobile phone with a capacity of multi-touch screen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:48 Steven Sinofsky Well, and that's very similar, you know, the PC industry actually had this exact, the reason that there are none of the PC makers, other than Apple in a sense, are successful phone makers, is because they were exactly like Detroit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:15 Benedict Evans A couple of weeks ago, um, was sort of the difference between an Apple laptop, where they, you, there's no choice of any of the components, and it's super, super optimized, and the case is made out of machined aluminum to fit each… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:49 Benedict Evans Part of the reason that Apple ran into such difficulty in the eighties and nineties was Apple was trying to compete with the entire ecosystem. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 0:03 Sonal Chokshi In this hallway conversation episode, Benedict Evans and Steven Sanofsky discuss Apple's September, 2018 keynote event and share their thoughts on the new innovations and lessons that stick out. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:37 Steven Sinofsky So, uh, yesterday was a pretty exciting day in the world of, of Apple in the sense that there was an event, and a lot of people showed up at the Steve Jobs Theater, and they, surprise, surprise, had some new phones for us to talk about. 7 times in the scene