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Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
- ▶ 14:59 unnamed speaker If you think about, you know, using the iPhone as an example, like when the iPhone four came out and had an HD camera that empowered this wave of photo sharing apps like Instagram. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:59 unnamed speaker If you think about, you know, using the iPhone as an example, like when the iPhone four came out and had an HD camera that empowered this wave of photo sharing apps like Instagram.
- ▶ 27:48 unnamed speaker You know, I've heard tons of people say the iPhone could never have been built.
- ▶ 31:31 Carl Pei It's like command and control, top down, ivory tower style, iPad, iPhone, iMac, iEverything.
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 20:55 Guy Parsons Um, but there's loads of, there's loads of iPhone apps, right, that are out there just to like give all your photos that kind of like dreamy
The Challenge of Replicating Reality with Steve Zhao from SandboxVR
- ▶ 9:51 Steve Zhao Um, but what happened was in 2009, um, that's when, you know, the iPhone came, and then there was a mobile games industry.
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 59:40 Steph Smith Maybe you can pay attention to the technology changes happening on the iPhone.
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 28:14 Steve Wozniak And then the iPhone was even better.
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 19:39 Chris Power And also like, we don't have food and like, you know, the American consumer can't buy an iPhone for less than 10,000 dollars or have laptops at all.
- ▶ 22:05 Steph Smith And then even if people aren't interested in either of those, there is the direct relationship to manufacturing that happens with, as you mentioned, iPhones, but also medical devices, semiconductors, which are in so many of the devices…
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 14:12 Karen X. Cheng Whereas trying to come up with, like, the latest iPhone transition, all the ideas are taken. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 20:23 Steve Wozniak And then the iPhone was even better.
Healthcare Has Left the Building
- ▶ 10:14 unnamed speaker We know it's a supercomputer that sits in our pockets, and it's, of course, early days, this is not a central part of care today, but it's been fascinating to see the broad range of applications that you can do on, on an iPhone today,…
The Future Will Be Genetically Engineered
- ▶ 9:32 Alec Nielsen If you're gonna pack 8.5 billion transistors into an iPhone, you need better tools than a scalpel.
The Latest in Cyber Attacks
- ▶ 2:55 Martin Casado If you wanted to break into an iPhone, it's about two million dollars.
- ▶ 4:38 Martin Casado So it's not very hard, and it's not expensive compared to, say, two million dollars to break into an iPhone to actually compromise someone's personal account.
Any Company Can Offer Financial Services
- ▶ 5:51 Angela Strange Now, for the fintech nerds in the audience, this was a highly anticipated move, but not that long ago, Apple was your computer company, and now they're hoping you're gonna like their credit card as much as you like their iPhone, and it…
We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
- ▶ 6:58 David Ulevitch And I always like to think back to, like, the introduction of the iPhone. 3 times in the scene
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 26:43 Frank Chen The latest greatest iPhone clocks in as just under 500, so this thing has 30, 40 times the pixel density of the latest greatest iPhone and is half a millimeter wide. 2 times in the scene
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 4:01 Chris Dixon But then, you know, the next year, which you were deeply involved with, I remember you talking, I remember you telling me, like, I think it was like two, like, it was pre-iPhone, I believe.
- ▶ 8:49 Chris Dixon Whereas like the iPhone, that was inside out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:42 Chris Dixon And so I kind of think of it, if you think of analogy to the real world, like you have an iPhone that's kind of like your home, it's like your personal computer.
- ▶ 26:13 Chris Dixon Mobile startups, and of that, probably, you know, 10 of, of massive significance kind of emerged, and so, um, I think that we, I believe we're on the precipice now, not just crypto, I think AI and virtual reality, and there's a bunch of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:42 Jonah Peretti The other, the other thing that I think happens is, is trends converge that you didn't expect, you know, so I think just as an analogy, when Buzzfeed started, the iPhone didn't exist yet. 3 times in the scene
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 4:44 Marc Andreessen So this is one of those things in our business that you deal with a lot, which is because, you know, you find yourself, you know, these entrepreneurs come in, and they pitch an idea, and you kind of feel like you should draw a judgment on… 2 times in the scene
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 10:10 Sanket Pathak It's like expecting iPhone to exist, um, if we kind of, like, did not invent, I don't know, chips, like smaller chips or something like that, we were still using, like, landlines.
Founding Stories: Anchorage
- ▶ 17:39 Chris Dixon So it should be completely safe and as easy as tapping a button on your iPhone, right?
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 2:08 Justin Kan Uh, so it was pre iPhone, pre good cellular internet.
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 3:21 Chris Dixon Um, you know, there were mobile phones that had GPS and cell phone connectivity pre-iPhone, but, but the iPhone made it so the app developer didn't have to understand that any of that stuff worked, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:31 Chris Dixon And those are kind of the equivalent of the Apple or two or the iPhone or whatever in this world.
- ▶ 41:27 Chris Dixon They come up with a, with an email smartphone in 2003, and at the time you just didn't have sort of a, a great smartphone platform like the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
Founding Stories: Sandbox VR
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 1:10:40 Frank Chen You know, consumerization of enterprise IT, which is you want it to act like your iPhone and be that easy to use, right?
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 0:57 unnamed speaker So maybe let's just start with the world in which we live today, which is, you know, I use my iPhone or my Android phone.
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 11:08 Sonal Chokshi There's never some big, specific iPhone moment that is a, you know, discreet thing.
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… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:50 Benedict Evans They are not the Jesus phone, but this is just good incremental work by a bunch of people there making it a bit better.
- ▶ 16:36 Benedict Evans Your next phone purchase be another iPhone. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:41 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, theoretically, the Apple could say it is 200 bucks a month, and you get a free iPhone and a free iPad every two years, and you get all of this stuff.
- ▶ 23:16 Benedict Evans Yeah, those are the people who'd buy a new, top-of-the-line iPhone XS.
- ▶ 27:15 Steven Sinofsky And it also, it shows that their, their view of how these bundles work, which is they, they're confident enough in the value proposition of, of the phone itself, that they're not bringing all of these things in for free on the phone. 5 times in the scene
3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
- ▶ 32:28 Alex Rampell iPhone block.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 4:21 Qasar Younis One day you decided, I'm going to find and get that iPhone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:51 Sonal Chokshi And, um, there's some kind of combo of the two where the iPhone was like, 2030 years in the making. 10 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Finding Go-to-Market Fit in the Enterprise
- ▶ 6:43 Bob Tinker And eventually what we did is we figured out that that problem was, dude, I need help with my iPhones.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 21:14 Ken Kocienda Uh, and so I pushed for it, I asked for it, and it was actually Scott Forstall, uh, the, uh, the, uh, software executive, uh, uh, really instrumental in, in coming up with a lot of the, uh, you know, interesting user interface work in the…
- ▶ 27:32 Ken Kocienda The, the, the code name for iPhone, and it was in development. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:25 Ken Kocienda Steve stood up on stage and announced the iPhone in January of 2007.
- ▶ 47:12 Frank Chen Another funny thing that I learned reading your book is the secrecy was so extreme that, like, you didn't even know what the product was going to be named, and so, like, the word iPhone wasn't even in the dictionary? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:47 Ken Kocienda The one thing that I did, uh, uh, uh, implement for the first iPhone was, um, the loop. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:16 Ken Kocienda The original iPhone when we were then doing the original iPad. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:39 Ken Kocienda You know, which was the issue with the iPhone four, uh, where you're holding it wrong, and, uh, the signal strength would go down.
- ▶ 1:20:33 Ken Kocienda So, so now, you know, going back, ah, to, to a phone that looks, ah, more like this is a, my, my original iPhone that I still have. 3 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.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 12:51 Frank Chen Because of that, the bad guys have figured this out, and they're calling call centers trying to impersonate you so they can transfer money to their accounts, so they can order a dozen iPhones and just go pick them up and sell them. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 0:02 Chris Dixon This is the A-C-Z podcast, and today we have Brian McCullough, the author of the recent awesome book, which I just read, called How the Internet Happened from Netscape to the iPhone.
- ▶ 1:56 Brian McCullough I end with the announcement of the first iPhone.
- ▶ 28:10 Brian McCullough So would social have got as far as it had had the iPhone not arrived at the exact same moment? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:46 Chris Dixon What happened right there was the iPhone was this major new unlock kind of for, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 2:46 Chris Dixon Mainstream thing, but it hadn't happened, and then of course the iPhone, 2007, Android.
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.
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
- ▶ 17:19 Zach Wiener Using an iPhone, it just feels very immediate, like you're so close. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 4:33 Marc Andreessen So, really, the iPhone probably is the... 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 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 | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 9:15 Fred Wilson And you look at what the top hundred websites were before the iPhone came out, it's not a very different list, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:23 Chris Dixon And you need trust, you need developer experience, you need scalability, and yeah, it's, it's like we're internet pre-broadband, we're mobile phone pre-iPhone. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 1:45 Benedict Evans And this reminded me a lot of sort of hearing similar conversations around, for example, the iPhone.
- ▶ 14:34 Benedict Evans Was deeply challenged by what the iPhone proposed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:23 Benedict Evans Um, the question is, is this, like, iPhone hard, or is this, um, when you buy an iPhone, it activates with AT&T over, over the air. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 1:28 Benedict Evans The iPhone X was...
- ▶ 1:35 Benedict Evans Um, the iPhone XS, I still can't say that without smiling, is...
- ▶ 3:54 Benedict Evans And that's sort of what Apple's doing with the iPhone.
- ▶ 4:28 Benedict Evans Then, then there's the old phone, then there's the, the current phone, plus last year's phone is a hundred or 200 dollars cheaper, and then you've got multiple, and you've got multiple memory sizes as well, and now we've got two previous…
- ▶ 4:55 Benedict Evans Two new iPhone model flagship iPhones in different sizes, so they've gone back to have multiple sizes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:37 Benedict Evans There's an optimization in here because the, the iPhone X and now the iPhone X is all the XS. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:37 Benedict Evans There's an optimization in here because the, the iPhone X and now the iPhone X is all the XS.
- ▶ 11:22 Benedict Evans I think there's a, there's a sort of, I know, there's a desire for a shiny new thing, and there's not a shiny new thing with the iPhone.
- ▶ 11:30 Benedict Evans And in fact, sitting in the event yesterday, it was actually quite difficult to tell which of the new event, which of the things they were saying about the iPhone XS
- ▶ 15:02 Benedict Evans Particularly with the, with the iPhone X, like the kind of, it's reached a point where I never worry about it running out during the day.
- ▶ 19:13 Benedict Evans The AR kit stuff that they're pushing, which doesn't really make a huge amount of sense on a phone, makes a lot more sense when you're wearing a pair of glasses, and of course the privacy, because the kind of slightly non-obvious thing… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:44 Benedict Evans Exactly, so the entry, so the cheapest iPhone is, I think, well, so the iPhone, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:49 Benedict Evans XR, which is the LCD one, is.
a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
- ▶ 11:57 Steven B. Johnson Now it might just be like an iPhone somewhere, but you know.
a16z Podcast | Crypto And The Evolution Of Open Source
- ▶ 30:54 Dennis Nazarov We can scale up production of iPhones, for example, and, and, you know, ship them to anyone in the world that can afford them.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
- ▶ 12:15 Dennis Nazarov You know, we only see it when it works, that there's the genius, there's the genius iPod product, there's the genius iPhone product, but, you know, how many, what, how many hundreds of products did the Apple team iterate, you know,
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 3:08 Chris Dixon Um, it has a built-in high-quality camera, my iPhone does, or your Android phone does, right?
a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows
a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
- ▶ 24:54 Alex Rampell You know, he, like, he actually really rewarded that person, whereas if you think about the most successful thing that Amazon's done in the last five years, it's the Amazon.com app on your iPhone, but that was riding a massive secular…
a16z Podcast | On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life
- ▶ 20:37 Arthur Brooks So I'm very interested in the iPhone model in the world of pure ideas, and so even when you roll the product out, it's not going to be a physical thing.
a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- ▶ 4:17 Christina Cordova Well, it's like the iPhone, you know, it's like all these parts are coming from all over the world, and, you know, you're sourcing chips from Qualcomm and putting that into a brand new device, and that's in the physical world, and I think… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
- ▶ 4:26 Matt Biilmann So that's where the big shift has happened, that now, just like we suddenly had a whole world of app developers emerging with the iPhone, now we have this whole new world of front-end developers that are becoming just a web developer.
a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier
- ▶ 11:34 Martin Casado Like every platform company that comes in is the new iPhone and they're gonna make the app store, et cetera.
a16z Podcast | The Self-Flying Camera
- ▶ 2:14 Adam Bry Imagine if on your iPhone, if you wanted to take a picture with it, and you push the wrong button at the wrong time, it would irreparably destroy itself. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:21 Chris Dixon Today, someone with an iPhone and Google has more information than the President of the United States did 20 years ago, right?
a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- ▶ 0:14 unnamed speaker We're somewhere before the iPhone moment, but are we in 2004 or 2007?
- ▶ 0:40 Chris Dixon I guess it feels to me like we're somewhere between before the iPhone moment in VR and in AR. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:59 Darshan Shankar Uh, the iPhone X being a pretty good example of
- ▶ 11:44 Chris Dixon It feels like, you remember when the iPhone first came out, when the store came out in 2 times in the scene