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Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 9:22 Qasar Younis Like, even that sounds trivial, because when you think about, mostly when you think about models, you think about deploying them through a browser or on a phone, and everything's abstracted away, because you have iOS, and you have Android,…
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 14:08 Benedict Evans Windows and iOS did, but they were doing something else.
- ▶ 20:43 Benedict Evans Are they iOS? 2 times in the scene
Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- ▶ 20:22 unnamed speaker Apple integrate AI into iOS and weave it into the operating system and, um, how do we use application applications or specific types of things?
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 49:00 Balaji Srinivasan Yes, I think they can get disrupted, but I'm not sure that it's like, uh, I don't think it's quite like, oh, everybody on Blackberry is going to die because iOS is taking over.
- ▶ 55:20 Balaji Srinivasan And so the reason that this is super, super, super important, there's only, um, you know, you can click this, you can install this on, on web or on, on iOS or Android, right?
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 13:03 Olivia Moore Like, if you look at Android, Gemini is at, like, 50% of ChatGPT's scale on mobile, whereas on iOS it's, like, 17%.
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 32:47 Alex Rampell And of course, Apple corrected that mistake when the iPhone came out, when they did now like Xcode, which is the way that you build products for, um, for Mac products or Macintosh and iPhone, iOS, it's free.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 19:20 Eugenia Kuyda I think with every, um, I believe, I still remember, of course, and you guys obviously remember too, but I do remember how the first iOS apps were just people trying to squeeze those websites into an app format, or just kind of toy apps,…
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 25:41 Anish Acharya They're not explicitly defined by Apple as iOS was.
- ▶ 40:27 Anish Acharya I think a lot about the early ethos of Android, which felt like it matched Google's sort of open web mindset, and then when it became clear that iOS was beating their pants off by being a closed ecosystem, Android became very closed and… 2 times in the scene
The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
- ▶ 2:16 Olivia Moore So this time we had a lot of new companies on mobile as iOS ecosystem has cracked down on that.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 11:14 Steven Sinofsky And even to this day, like, I don't think people, they, they would say you, it would be incorrect to define the phone market as iOS versus Android, because China would have something to say about that.
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 54:11 Balaji Srinivasan If we have enough context, not from LLMs, but from pointer movements and mouse clicks on, you know, iOS or, or, or other, or Mac OS. 2 times in the scene
Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora
- ▶ 5:18 Adam D'Angelo So this is things like building applications across iOS and Android and Windows and Mac, localization of the interface,
- ▶ 9:30 Adam D'Angelo You need an iOS app.
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 7:39 Olivia Moore But my data polls show you need probably around or maybe a little bit above a 100,000 downloads in the US on iOS.
- ▶ 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.
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 5:43 John Riccitiello Android to iOS, Xbox to PC to Mac.
- ▶ 12:24 John Riccitiello It used to be you played a game on your PlayStation or your Xbox, you played with other people on your PlayStation or Xbox, or PC or Mac, um, or on iOS or on Android, and increasingly, um, what we're starting to see is games that are…
- ▶ 41:13 John Riccitiello Um, it allows you to look through your Android or, um, iOS device for someone on a construction site to hold it up.
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 41:54 Sanket Pathak Uh, and then once kind of the operating system became extremely stable, then you started seeing Chase, Bank of America, Facebook, like all these people that traditionally were not like iOS apps,
What's Next for Esports Startups
- ▶ 19:29 Andrew Chen and then that was that, and then, you know, mobile games, you know, all the iOS games have been about, well, it's always going to be sort of, you know, paid install driven, so the monetization needs to be incredible, right?
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 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.
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 5:30 Benedict Evans Tiny in proportion to the overall Apple business, and the purpose of the App Store is to sell iPhones and to make the iPhone a great experience, and yes, they're making a little bit of money from it, kind of on the side, but actually it's…
- ▶ 26:46 Steven Sinofsky And make them iOS only. 4 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 10:41 unnamed speaker They're rolling out iOS devices with BYOD solutions that are part of their cloud services.
- ▶ 15:07 unnamed speaker Again, the iOS model, the Chromebook model, this belief that we can build security in, kind of obviates the need for a lot of the previous bolt-on security that we've seen.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 46:15 Qasar Younis Any, anything that exists both on Android and iOS is in some way a cross-platform horizontal play, right?
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 28:38 Ken Kocienda So what became UIKit for people who know about the, the, you know, the technology for what became, you know, the iPhone software, iOS, uh, that was our job, and
- ▶ 49:08 Frank Chen Now, a feature we all take for granted now actually didn't appear in iOS until several releases later, and that's copy and paste.
- ▶ 59:45 Ken Kocienda And so the way that this worked is that, um, uh, there was a very small team that was like the, uh, the, the, the, the chief demo review team, the small group of people that Steve wanted around him as he was reviewing demos, and this was…
- ▶ 1:11:56 Ken Kocienda Yeah, and so this was, uh, this was for, uh, iOS
- ▶ 1:33:02 Ken Kocienda But then, but that is also one of the ways that just made it clear about, um, you know, if I was collaborating with someone like, uh, like Boss or just some other engineer on the, on the, uh, you know, on the iOS, uh, engineering hallway,…
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 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…
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 21:10 Chris Dixon , I think of as, they're kind of forms of networks, they're, they're, they're platforms of developer networks, so Windows, iOS,
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
- ▶ 21:23 Martin Casado Which is a shame, because, I mean, there was a big announcement of zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS, so every company has insecurity.
a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- ▶ 10:45 Chris Dixon I felt like there was a lot of excitement five months ago on ARKit, and then it came out, iOS 11, and I just feel like the excitement sort of dropped a little bit.
- ▶ 12:39 Darshan Shankar Yeah, I would say though that the ARKit strategy sounds a lot to me like UIKit and iOS development ecosystem.
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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…
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 | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 4:19 Chris Dixon Um, and so that goes back to, you know, windows is a platform, obviously, you know, iOS and iPhone is a platform.
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 | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
- ▶ 24:25 Gaurav Dhillon I had dinner with the CIO of a large retailer and they might decide that the point of sale terminals should be iOS devices.
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.
- ▶ 11:55 Luke Wroblewski And you know, when their iOS app, they literally had like an HTML web view, JavaScript rendering pseudo browser, making the feed.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 13:00 Benedict Evans Meanwhile, we have a new S-curve, which is ARM, iOS, touch, modern operating system, iPad, iPhone, of which we now have nine hundred million users. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:56 Steven Sinofsky I'm obviously going to go buy a new Surface, and it'll replace the all-in-one Dell that I have, but, you know, if you look at iOS, like, the thing that was most innovative to me about iOS is that 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:53 Steven Sinofsky You're, you know, there are brand new products like those that we're investors in that are, you know, web and iOS compatible for, for design.
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 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.
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 47:30 Fred Ehrsam So like, you know, we don't have, um, sort of templates for building apps in the way that things like iOS or Ruby on Rails or, uh, Bootstrap gave us easy ways to kind of construct web apps out of different components.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 44:37 Jenny Lee Hard wired into the operating systems and, and are basically can be cross platform that an iOS device can talk to.
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 4:53 Marc Andreessen You know, might be iOS or whatever it is.
- ▶ 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 | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 0:26 Kyle Russell iOS on your phone and iPad, Mac OS, renamed from OS X on the desktop and laptop computers they make, and watch OS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:52 Benedict Evans iOS users use Apple Maps, and almost all iOS users use iMessage a lot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:27 Kyle Russell So essentially the tools that they use in order to build the photos learning on top of the new version iOS.
- ▶ 16:38 Benedict Evans Clearly, that's what one way of thinking about everything that Google showed at Google I.O., but it's also another way of thinking about a lot of these sort of, sort of small and interesting and useful little bits of AI scattered all the…
- ▶ 17:31 Kyle Russell One last thing I'd like to bring up, something you tweeted, uh, as the news was unfolding was how, uh, nothing kind of came up, uh, specifically for the iPad when it comes to iOS 10.
- ▶ 17:42 Kyle Russell Uh, do you think that that's a matter of the last couple of point updates to iOS nine have focused on the iPad because the iPad pro
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 14:51 Benedict Evans Um, so the last two or three years, what we've had is that if you tap on a link on iOS or Android, and that's a link to a service that also has an app, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:16 Benedict Evans It's pretty clear that the future of VR is something to do with your smartphone, and that probably means Android and iOS, and it probably doesn't mean custom hardware from particular people.
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 2:31 Benedict Evans iOS, in terms of it's a different operating system that you use on a large screen, but that you can do lots of stuff on, and there's a bunch of stuff that works differently, and obviously the difference between, um, iOS, Windows and Mac,… 4 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?
- ▶ 44:31 Chris Messina I mean, down to like the desktop, which was relabeled the home screen or the, the, the home screen on iOS.
a16z Podcast | Teams, Trust, and Object Lessons
- ▶ 23:10 Dick Costolo He just, are you sure everyone on the iOS team knows what the top three priorities? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 16:36 Benedict Evans And obviously you see this with what Apple is doing in iOS, that they do stuff that routes people away from Google. 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.
- ▶ 15:14 unnamed speaker Um, well, yes, there are obviously, um, qualitative reasons why people don't have, you know, different people, but the majority of people don't own smartphones because they're expensive, and that's what's cool about Android compared to…
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 | 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.
- ▶ 6:57 Benedict Evans So there are, um, something like seven to eight hundred million live iOS devices in use today.
- ▶ 13:46 Benedict Evans Yeah, because I said eight hundred million devices, but people got iPads and iPhones, so this is over half a billion people, and it's, generally it's the best half billion people, that is to say it's the half billion people who are most… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 15:45 Benedict Evans So you'd use Android or, you know, if it's an Apple, in the Apple ecosystem, it would be connected into iOS.
- ▶ 19:58 Benedict Evans But then you have kind of the software ecosystem on top, which is Android and iOS. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
- ▶ 0:08 Chris Dixon Um, iOS nine allows you to down to download, um, uh, ad blockers or content blockers, which, which are mainly ad blockers.
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 18:50 Benedict Evans I mean, it's basically an iPhone without a screen, so you can run it, and it runs iOS.
a16z Podcast | When Software Eats Cars
- ▶ 25:04 Michael Copeland I know, you know, you, you've made arguments for why maybe Apple and its kind of rarefied product lineup isn't well-suited to an on-demand car world where we don't own our own cars, but, I mean, is there going to be an iOS version of the…
a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 8:22 Christopher Mims You know, it reminded me of iOS or Android in the early days, and I was wondering if you had a sense of how big that is.
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 14:46 Benedict Evans We've been back in iOS six.
- ▶ 16:48 Steve Cheney You know, if you look at the iOS, um, revisions that have been just released in the last three years of six, seven, eight, nine.
a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
- ▶ 0:13 unnamed speaker So we hear about updates to iOS, to OSX.
- ▶ 1:10 Benedict Evans And then there's a platform with eight, seven or eight hundred million active devices, iOS.
- ▶ 1:14 Benedict Evans And so we have iOS nine. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16 Benedict Evans And iOS nine, a bit like Android M, excuse me, it feels like a bit of a maintenance release in that there's lots, you know, obviously there were a bunch of huge structural changes in iOS eight with extensions and a whole bunch of other…
- ▶ 2:13 Benedict Evans but I think, you know, the ability to have, you know, two windows next to each other, to look at two things at the same time, um, in a more, you know, more fluid way than using an application switcher, um, which you can do on iOS or indeed… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:53 Benedict Evans Um, and so then there's another interesting layer across iOS, which is the use of sort of, well, there's sort of several ways to come at it.
- ▶ 8:49 unnamed speaker For the rest of us, fall for OSX, iOS nine, and Apple Watch.
- ▶ 17:36 Benedict Evans That Apple Maps has three and a half times more users than Google Maps on iOS.
- ▶ 19:42 Benedict Evans You do own them, and moving them from one platform to another is a pain, and yes, Google Photos is on iOS, but it's still like, I'm going to take 25,000 photos out of
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