apps

also referred to as: app

12 statements across 9 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Steven Sinofsky · across every show →

Everything said about apps, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Sinofsky: Most consumers regularly use only seven apps on phones and PCs
“Most everybody is going to just use about seven apps on their phone. And the same holds for PCs.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:53 a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
Sinofsky: Over 800,000 apps were used during the Windows 7 beta
“We did what the Windows seven launch, we talked about that there were over 800,000 apps that got used just during the beta process.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:00 a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Evans: Mobile websites, apps, and notifications cycle endlessly into one another
“Every, every website attempts to expand until you can turn, get people to install an app. And then every app attempts to expand until you can send notifications. And then every notification expands until it becomes an app.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:50 a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Evans: Apple Pay is more transformative for in-app purchases than retail
“To me, I've always thought Apple Pay was more interesting in apps than at point of sale, because you go into a store, you pull something out of your pocket, you put it on a thing, and you do a thing, and whether it's a phone or a card, I mean, this is what peo…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:40 a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Evans: OS Context Layers Bypass Mobile's App-Installation Bottleneck
“That's how you solve the binary problem of the app is installed or it's not installed, because you've got this intermediate layer where content can show up that doesn't have to be the app.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:57 a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Evans: Consumers resist retail apps because companies overvalue their own importance
“You are the most important thing in a corporation's life, but the corporation is not the most important thing in your life. And so they want you to have the app, but that doesn't mean you want the app.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:17 a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Evans: Installing a mobile app will lose meaning within five years
“If I was to say I installed an app on my smartphone in five years time, I don't quite know what that word would mean.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:58 a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Attar: Humanitarian aid apps and tech innovation hype are largely meaningless
“The word innovation or, you know, apps Yes, for humanitarian aid have become almost meaningless because everybody thinks that they can create an app and it's going to solve the problem, or we can paste the word innovation on anything, and that basically become…”
Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:12 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
Jan 2, 2019
Prediction Partly held up
Dalio: Planning an app to crowdsource and vote on decision-making principles
“What I'm planning to do is to get the best principles from everybody and then make that all available on an app in which then people can then vote up what are the best principles for that particular thing that they're encountering, and so then when that thing …”
Ray Dalio Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 49:20 a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
Feb 6, 2025
Insight
Sinofsky: Building first-party apps is key to creating great software platforms
“Because the best feedback loop to build a great platform for other people to use is to be building apps.”
Steven Sinofsky Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 42:00 What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
Feb 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sinofsky: AI TAM will grow 100x, with revenue captured primarily by applications
“And so I think that that the TAM is going to be a hundred X. It's going to be every endpoint. The revenue is going to come from the apps side of it, and then there'll be a developer side of it. It'll just be a different pricing model for different sets of scen…”
Steven Sinofsky Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 42:41 What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
Aug 25, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sinofsky: The industry is on the cusp of a vertical AI application wave
“We're really on the cusp of a wave of apps. And like the fact that now you can apply capital without also being a recruiter for 10 years and have output, now all of the world that's unserved by software, which is literally all of it, like everybody who complai…”
Steven Sinofsky Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 43:43 How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
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