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a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- ▶ 13:49 Darshan Shankar But I think AR is, is nowhere close to its iPhone moment, uh, in the sense that the price point is sufficiently far beyond what, uh, most people would be able to afford right away.
- ▶ 14:58 Chris Dixon But I, I still tend to think that VR's iPhone moment is coming quickly. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:57 Darshan Shankar Uh, that allows the VR industry to have a much larger addressable market when it comes to number of users that actually have a headset, which will make it more lucrative for people to start building more content, more content gets made,…
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- ▶ 10:00 Frank Chen So today we do lots of over-the-air updates to our iPhones and Androids and to Windows.
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 27:07 Benedict Evans It's exactly the same as them shipping a headphone adapter with the iPhone.
a16z Podcast | Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens
- ▶ 24:48 Chris Dixon To me, it feels like the way the iPhone felt in 2009 through 11, where just, like, every smart person who knew how to program and design and do other things said, I'm gonna build an iPhone app. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 1:50 Steven Sinofsky Like, and we think about disruption and we think about the BlackBerry and the company just going away overnight because of the iPhone and stuff, but it turns out if you actually look at IBM, the next 20 years were incredibly profitable for…
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 18:29 Tim O'Reilly And, and that is starting to be built, you know, and one of the big reasons, you know, like I have an iPhone and I have, um,
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 | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 3:56 Benedict Evans The classic thing that drives me crazy, people talking about Apple, thinking that the app store is like a primary revenue driver for Apple, when the whole purpose of the app store is to drive sales of a 700 dollar iPhone every two years at… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:26 Steven Sinofsky Like, like this notion of how can you know all of this and then just not have billboards on one-on-one telling us what the iPhone 11 is going to look like.
- ▶ 16:31 Benedict Evans Apple is producing something, you know, the, the iPhone eight for the sake of org for the, whatever the name is, is going to be announced in a month or
a16z Podcast | From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
- ▶ 7:18 Steven Sinofsky Which is sort of the history of the iPhone, or a tablet, or a whole bunch, or the, and the web, and a whole bunch of other stuff all rolled into a single paper, which itself is phenomenal.
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 7:25 Andrew McAfee (Andy) iPhone first released, it did not have any external apps on it. 9 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
- ▶ 13:12 Martin Casado It's actually very difficult because of the distribution problem of the atoms, but the iPhone has solved that. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Living Museum
- ▶ 4:07 Rachel Goslins You can see a skeleton of a prehistoric platypus, and if you hold up your iPhone,
- ▶ 16:20 Sarah Lombard Well, in 2007, that's when the iPhone came out and everyone moved to swipe.
a16z Podcast | The Blockchain, in Congress
- ▶ 1:53 Congressman David Schweikert era in their lives and so they certainly do get that and hopefully it's their job to kind of explain that to the member of congress or senator they work for and one of the things i think we're starting to succeed at is explaining the…
- ▶ 16:35 Mike Lempress You know, similar to something like the iPhone or the internet itself, how quickly things changed in response to that.
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 19:40 Marc Andreessen And then the iPhone mainstream, you know, seven.
a16z Podcast | Quantum Computing, Now and Next
- ▶ 4:02 Chris Dixon Your iPhone does.
a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
- ▶ 8:39 Kyle Russell You know, like, uh, 10 years ago, the discussion about the switch from Blackberries with physical keyboards to the iPhone with touch, I was a little bit slower, and all the complaints people had.
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 30:06 Tyler Cowen So you buy an iPhone,
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 26:35 Reed Hastings And he would say, come on, it, like, barely runs, and that's what, in frustration, made him, um, be incredibly dismissive, so that comment that he made will define one part of his career, like Steve Ballmer's iPhone, you know, uh,…
a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- ▶ 5:36 Frank Chen Will it be S-shaped like it was for the iPhones?
- ▶ 11:42 Frank Chen And so the carness of the car is less important, but the iPhone-ness of the car is very important, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative
- ▶ 29:35 Robert Stromberg You can play a, a two D game and be compelled on your iPhone, or you can go home and turn on your Xbox.
a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
- ▶ 10:35 Gaurav Dhillon And if you think about reporting and business intelligence today, that's what my iPhone does. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 0:39 Luke Wroblewski I was at a Yahoo at the time and a Flickr put out this, uh, iPhone only website. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:23 unnamed speaker And, uh, you know, like remember the lawsuit Samsung had against Apple about the iPhone?
- ▶ 7:28 Connie Chan You can completely tailor and customize just like your home screen on your iPhone, which
a16z Podcast | Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
- ▶ 23:18 Frank Chen We were trying to build the iPhone in 1991.
a16z Podcast | Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
- ▶ 30:33 unnamed speaker If you're really wealthy, you can print the latest and greatest iPhone.
a16z Podcast | Health Data -- A Feedback Loop for Humanity
- ▶ 18:43 Jeff Kaditz There's been some modifications where you can now hook it to your iPhone.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 1:54 Benedict Evans Microsoft and Google getting into the hardware business as it is to compare the Pixel with the iPhone and to compare the Surface with the Mac because you've got these, so you've got these two different things.
- ▶ 3:07 Benedict Evans At the high end, it struggles to compete with the iPhone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:08 Benedict Evans Is the reach problem that too many people were buying iPhones, and they felt that no one was making a high-end Android phone, and so they had to make a high-end Android phone, and if that upsets Samsung, well, that's so be it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:07 Steven Sinofsky I sat there in the launch of, of the first iPhone and Jobs stood on stage. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:50 Benedict Evans Well, this is, so it's actually, it's an iPhone, it's an Apple Watch.
- ▶ 26:42 Benedict Evans So when Apple launched the iPad, or indeed they launched the phone, they didn't launch the iPad and show you pinching on photos and drawing on it, and then say, now you plug in a mouse in order to do your email.
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 14:48 Chris Dixon And thus far, they haven't released really much of anything that's, that's worked since the iPhone.
- ▶ 34:00 Kyle Russell Russell, uh, my pinned tweet is actually a photogrammetry I did of my apartment and just from my iPhone.
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 0:13 Kyle Russell We're here to talk about a couple of things that Apple announced last week, like a new iPhone with controversially no traditional headphone, but a fancy new camera and updated Apple watch and wireless AirPods that solve a lot of the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:41 Kyle Russell Everyone was talking about it, but now we're in kind of the third year of that since the iPhone five S
- ▶ 4:08 Steven Sinofsky And like, the flip side is like, you know, the iPhone six, whatever, is not the pinnacle of achievement that
- ▶ 11:33 Benedict Evans But interestingly here, you know, this is going to be the iPhone camera. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 Benedict Evans When you buy an iPhone seven, it comes with headphones that work with it, and almost everybody actually only ever uses the headphones that come with their, with their phone, and secondly, it comes with a free adapter, so you can use your…
- ▶ 15:37 Kyle Russell No, and I think something else about the, you know, iPhone didn't get a new physical design on the outside, so there was no innovation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:04 Benedict Evans There's a sort of weird narrative that it's been a huge flop because it's not the new iPhone, but actually it's a great business that most of, almost all people who bought one actually love it if you look at the surveys. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:16 Benedict Evans So there's a final thing I think to think about here, which is, you know, this is, you know, it'll be the 10th anniversary of the iPhone next year. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:25 Benedict Evans So even if the camera on the back of the iPhone in seven plus doesn't do three D, what you're seeing there is an image sensor capability, which you will then be using for your VR headset, so that the headset can work out when you've just…
a16z Podcast | It's Complicated
- ▶ 1:01 Sam Arbesman Like an iPhone, smartphone, any phone?
- ▶ 18:14 Steven Sinofsky We now build systems that no one understands, and that classic, if I could get a time machine and go back to, like, 1950, I'd invent whatever your favorite product is now, and then you realize you couldn't come up with an iPhone in 1950.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 22:48 Jenny Lee This is before they showed up on our iPhones, like, perky little yellow faces. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:08 Fred Benenson The interesting twist is that when you look at it on the iPhone, it doesn't look anything like the statue in Tokyo.
- ▶ 51:30 Fred Benenson They told me you could download, like, a, basically a Japanese app, and it would, like, awaken your iPhone to the emoji keyboard. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer
- ▶ 9:14 unnamed speaker Like, I mean, I don't think I've ever read stories of Steve Jobs, like going and asking high school kids about the iPhone.
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 11:43 Ben Horowitz They've got an interesting advantage in that they're not in, you know, they're not tied to the last generation of user interfaces so that they don't have to pay the strategy tax for, um, shoehorning in their AI into, say, the iPhone, and…
a16z Podcast | When Humanity Meets A.I.
- ▶ 4:13 Frank Chen Both for the performance and then very importantly on the embedded side for power consumption, which is you want your iPhone eventually to be able to do this.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 17:32 Alex Rampell All of the execs that work at the Williams-Sonomas of the world, they probably all use iPhones, so this is going to be priority number one.
- ▶ 21:10 Alex Rampell And Google initially, like the iPhone was an iPod with a radio transmitter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 Alex Rampell With Apple Pay, I think right now Apple Pay is yet another reason to buy an Apple phone versus somebody else's phone because it has all these great things, and one of the great things is Apple Pay. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 4:56 Frank Chen Which is whatever set of icons appears when I push the start screen on my iPhone, that's how I find content.
- ▶ 6:38 Frank Chen Apple and Google couldn't be more different on this, and Apple wants to emphasize the difference, which is, Apple says, we make money when you buy iPhones, so we don't have to monetize you in any other ways.
- ▶ 13:20 Benedict Evans Because, you know, the obvious analysis would be, you know, Apple wants everyone to make apps so that you can't lose the, leave the iPhone because you've got all your great apps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:58 Benedict Evans I mean, it's a little bit like when they do the new iPhone and they, they rattle off some buzzwords about, you know, how the chip in the camera works and they do it cause it kind of sounds cool, but they're not really, that's not really…
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 0:56 Kevin Kelly The iPhone was not.
- ▶ 7:33 Chris Dixon 30 years ago, the internet was inevitable, but the iPhone wasn't, or the nature of the, the type of internet wasn't.
a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns?
- ▶ 39:24 Evan Osnos And the president said a few months ago, why is it that we're able to rely on a thumbprint to open our iPhones, but we're not able to do that with a handgun or a shotgun?
a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- ▶ 14:46 Penny Pritzker You know, 15 years ago, we didn't even have an iPhone.
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 2:14 Steven Sinofsky And, and even when, when the iPhone came out, like, well, there were phones that browse the web, and there were phones that had touch, and there were phones that, that did all the things that the iPhone did, including making calls and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:53 Benedict Evans And so there will be VR APIs on Android, and there will probably be VR kit on the iPhone.
a16z Podcast | E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
- ▶ 28:28 Kunal Bahl Because many of the phones, not everyone, unlike the U.S., has an iPhone in India.
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 4:03 Steven Sinofsky That's, that's actually the thing that I, I noticed right away with, with what I did, is I, I purposely didn't, like when the iPad first came out, the reviews were all, it's like an iPhone, just a little bit bigger. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
- ▶ 15:42 Martin Casado If I look at Android, even though that wasn't a standalone independent company, you know, Palm and, and Blackberry and iPhone created this massive market.
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 4:36 Marc Andreessen As long as the iPhone doesn't get too popular, right?
- ▶ 26:02 Marc Andreessen My big breakthrough, actually, over, over the holidays was, um, it's in my pocket, the, the wireless Bluetooth headsets now have gotten so good, they're so small, and they sound great, and the battery lasts forever, and so now I just load… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | I Reject the Term Viral Video
- ▶ 12:29 Casey Neistat If you've got, like, iMovie on your mom's old iPhone, you're good.
a16z Podcast | Data Network Effects
- ▶ 31:25 Alex Rampell A lot of that pertains to data, but Apple makes too much money selling an iPhone.
a16z Podcast | Disruption in Business... and Life
- ▶ 18:55 Derek Anderson They've gone off the two-year plan, and now you can buy your iPhone very clearly, very simply, every 12 months. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 2:26 Benedict Evans The iPhone was 2007.
- ▶ 5:20 Michael Copeland It was kind of a throwback to, you know, in some ways shrugging off the, the kind of, I don't know, bounds of, of the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 20:08 Kyle Russell Repairing a car, let's say, where people today will, you know, set up their iPhone and record them changing the oil on a car and then put it on YouTube.
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 10:35 Martin Casado And today, because of the advent of the iPhone, you know, I mean, these things are pennies on the dollar.
a16z Podcast | 'In the Eye of a Tornado': Views on Innovation from China
- ▶ 1:49 Clay Shirky And so when they hold an iPhone in their hands, they think the hardware and the, the user experience that they're having is, is what innovation is.
- ▶ 18:31 Clay Shirky And the interesting, you know, sort of macro question is, does that make the Android market more competitive or less competitive with the iPhone?
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- ▶ 15:46 Frank Chen I think you'll see dramatic improvements in the way insurance companies do customer service, which is submitting claims with iPhones, taking pictures, right, will get much more mainstream, and then consumers will see new types of insurance…
a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
- ▶ 3:52 Benedict Evans And so, like, Bosch had this great display where they had, like, 15 different consumer electronics products from the surface to an iPhone to a drone to a Nest, and they all had the same Bosch component sensor, sort of tilt sensor switch or…
a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
- ▶ 14:23 Jeff Lawson Now open up the phone app on your iPhone.
a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
- ▶ 27:10 Joel Spolsky People are bringing in iPhones. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped
- ▶ 19:13 Andre Iguodala Uh, from technology standpoint, that's a test in my iPhone, knowing, hence,
a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
- ▶ 25:48 Chris Dixon 95, you would have thought, you know, if you were telling it really, it really, I, I, my view is mobile didn't start until the iPhone, for real, like, you know, 2007, eight or something, um, 2006, seven, eight, whatever. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 10:08 Benedict Evans The other iPhones and so on. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 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 | The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 7:01 Kyle Russell Uh, but at the same time, I then go and do, and maybe now we can talk about the future a little bit, a, uh,
- ▶ 11:38 Beau Cronin So if you go back to, you know, the initial, ah, iPhone release in 2007 and sort of, you know, where we, where we started there and where we've ended up now, we as, you know, number one, as a, as a design community, but really as a larger…
a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce
- ▶ 32:25 Craig Walker You still want, you know, like, that's why people like their iPhones at work.
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 19:38 Eileen Burbage You know, you were talking about the timing of things, the iPhone itself was only introduced in 2007,
- ▶ 35:00 Alex Rampell Damn, I wish my, my iPhone battery lasted more than a year, and I have to buy a new iPhone to get a new battery. 2 times in the scene