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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
- ▶ 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.
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