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Why Every Founder Needs a Story | Replit CEO on a16z
- ▶ 12:18 Amjad Masad Actually, Steve Jobs, um, once did this ad, uh, they, they had a, they had a Mac 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:25 Amjad Masad I don't know, the big towers of Mac Pro, I think it's called, where they had tremendous computer power that was subject to export control.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 7:01 Benedict Evans And there's clearly this kind of very widespread between people in the valley who bought, you know, a cluster of Mac studios and are running OpenClaw all day versus, um, you know, those other 40% of people who say, yeah, it's kind of…
- ▶ 59:42 Benedict Evans In fact, I'm also doing it with my iPhone, so my iPhone is streaming to my Mac over Wi-Fi streaming video here, and it, like, it just works.
Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- ▶ 29:22 Martin Casado So, um, if you use OpenClaw, do you know why you use a Mac mini with OpenClaw? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:09 Steven Sinofsky Oh, you're looking at my Mac camera, and.
Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
- ▶ 21:47 Jessie Genet I have gotten, I, I don't know why I'm so geeked out on this, you guys, but I've, I got my agents to learn how to build other agents on their own Mac Mini without me needing to touch the Mac Mini. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:47 Jessie Genet It will be so approachable in a matter of mere months, if not weeks, that to me, it's very helpful to explain the tip of the spear, but then when people reach out to me directly and they go, should I buy a Mac Mini, should I spin up an…
- ▶ 28:38 Jessie Genet I do have them all installed on Mac minis from a, from a hardware standpoint. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:38 Jessie Genet And then, um, you, from a security standpoint, if it is a, if it is a Mac, create a new, um, Apple user profile on that machine.
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 8:38 Peter Yang Well, I, I, I did buy the Mac Mini and set up his own email.
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 28:18 Alex Rampell Uh, Lotus got to like, I think, 70% market share by 1985, which is when Microsoft released Excel for, uh, a Mac.
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 54:02 Steven Sinofsky Then, and, and this is, there's a phrase that it's Sherlocking on the Mac and the Apple world.
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 3:53 Steven Sinofsky The weird, weirdest thing about it is, you know, the iPad is a Mac. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 Steven Sinofsky And the best way to think of it is, like, Macs are, you know, half the laptop market in the U.S. at this point. 2 times in the scene
AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense
- ▶ 15:09 David Mytton If you're in the Apple ecosystem and using Safari on, on iPhone or on Mac, then there is a way to authenticate that the request is coming from an individual who has a subscription to iCloud and Apple has their own fraud analysis to allow…
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 24:09 Steven Sinofsky I mean, I, you know, run llama on my Mac and it's, it's just the first time you do it, it's your, your mind is blown.
- ▶ 26:54 Steven Sinofsky And I'm like, oh, look, here is a video of the Lillehammer Winter Olympics playing on my Mac.
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
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…
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 23:28 Steven Sinofsky There was just a lot of overthinking of, of this whole thing, and that's the constant challenge with Apple is you over, in fact, last night I tweeted that like when, before the iPad came out, we were all sitting around trying to figure out…
- ▶ 26:47 Steven Sinofsky In this case, iMac too, or Mac too. 2 times in the scene
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 21:36 Ken Kocienda And so, uh, I started working on the, uh, sync services software for the Mac, which at that time was really still the software that would, uh, be, uh, be up in the cloud and, and would, uh, help, uh, two Macs sync with each other. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:49 Ken Kocienda Uh, the plan, uh, was that we were going to take as much of the Mac as possible and bring it over and squeeze it into, uh, one of these, you know, a tiny little, you know, smartphone form factor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:44 Ken Kocienda Uh, truly, because this is, this is the point where we didn't even have, uh, all of our units still needed to be tethered to a Mac.
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 28:45 Steven Sinofsky Like, the, the, the Mac all-in-one, um, desktop was always just small, medium, and large.
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 10:03 Benedict Evans And meanwhile, the people who want an expensive high-end premium PC are probably going to buy a Mac. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- ▶ 12:48 Darshan Shankar One of the reasons I think why it picked up so well in 2009, 2010 was because there were a lot of developers who were already accustomed to Apple's SDK having developed apps for the Mac before, having understood that ecosystem. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 3:32 Benedict Evans So if this is part of the story, I mean, you know, one of the things you see around, um, sort of the chatter around Apple is people complaining that they don't do that much on, to, to, to, to the max anymore. 6 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 10:29 Steven Sinofsky And if you were a Mac fan, you were like, good Lord, 4200 dollars for a computer.
- ▶ 11:14 Benedict Evans anybody looking at a PC, including Macs, there's Macs for PCs, but 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:19 Steven Sinofsky And it turns out they backed away from saying that because it was just so confusing to everybody because you ask, oh, then can I run Mac word on it? 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 23:37 Kyle Russell Tied to your iCloud account, it'll automatically log you in without needing to enter your password into your Mac, for instance, so kind of like Touch ID for your Mac. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:04 Steven Sinofsky And because, which is what happened when they started going down the Mac OS system seven and eight, they like ran out of stuff to really shift a lot and they, the chips were dying.
- ▶ 26:53 Benedict Evans And so Apple has got like a thing that looks like a Gear VR and a thing that looks like an Oculus running off a Mac Pro.
- ▶ 33:12 Benedict Evans This comes back to what we were saying about the performance issue on the Galaxy Note, which is, in a sense, what we're doing is we're rerunning Mac versus Windows.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 13:48 Benedict Evans So even that retailer that you buy from every six months, it's still better to buy from them on an iPhone or an iPad because you, or indeed on a Mac, because now you can just have Apple Pay instead of typing your credit card number in. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 0:20 Steven Sinofsky I broke with tradition because there was always this weird thing that like on Macs and laptops, everybody puts stickers.
- ▶ 8:40 Steven Sinofsky My Mac is, my Mac has always been filled with fingerprints, because I always, I keep hitting the screen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:29 Benedict Evans And so you've got the taskbar in Windows, you've got the expose on the Mac, and then you had the multi-split screen thing in Windows eight. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:55 Benedict Evans And so I think you have to layer that question of how much of the thing, of those, like, for me, I mean, my 10% use cases of the things I need a PC for, I need a PC or a Mac for, how many people have those two use cases, and to what extent… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 5:17 Benedict Evans Saying that, you know, unlike, say, a web browser on a, either a Windows or a Mac, where the web browser was the platform and the Windows or the Mac computer wasn't really where you were building internet services. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:55 Benedict Evans And so it's like Illumio is almost like a Mac Mini with a screen.
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 2:25 Benedict Evans Yeah, um, but obviously that's on the Mac, which is kind of a niche business, but now in the scale of Apple, but that means, for example, you can press on a message, and you get a preview of it, you can press on an image, and it zooms up,…
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 18:40 Benedict Evans And so you had your Windows, or you had your Mac, and you had one icon, which was the internet, and everything appeared within Netscape Navigator.
a16z Podcast | Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways
- ▶ 4:18 Benedict Evans oh wow moment that you had with the original iPhone or with, you know, the Mac or something where suddenly it's this whole new world.
- ▶ 18:22 Steven Sinofsky It's super neat that you could do iMessage on a Mac, and then on your iPad or on your iPhone, and pick up where you left off, but there were a lot of ways to do that, and it's super clear in hindsight, of course, that they had every…
a16z Podcast | Messaging is the Medium
- ▶ 13:30 Benedict Evans Do you even open it up to, open an Apple Pay up to apps on the desktop if you're on a Mac or something?
a16z Podcast | What the Apple Watch Is -- and Isn't
- ▶ 8:06 Benedict Evans Um, that's to say when you went with the Mac, um, you had a step change in usability, a step change in how you thought about the product. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
- ▶ 9:58 Benedict Evans Yeah, it's a bit like, you know, the dilemma Microsoft had putting Office onto Mac, except much more so. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 27:25 Benedict Evans And I'm kind of, again, I'm sort of exasperated by people who think that looking at Windows versus Mac tells you something about this, because both the iPhone business is in a fundamentally different position in the industry to where the… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 4:08 Steven Sinofsky I mean, I, I, you know, I, I worked in the Mac lab when the Macs came out on college campus, um, that in 1984, and people used to come in and literally treat them like they were toys. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Brands and Running Retail -- Ron Johnson and Tristan Walker Break It Down
- ▶ 5:29 Tristan Walker Uh, you can listen to music, you can get your Mac fixed.
a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
- ▶ 6:57 Benedict Evans Versus about eighty million Macs, according to Apple. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Large Scale Gets Really Massive -- Managing Today’s Enterprise Networks
- ▶ 11:49 Steven Sinofsky If you look at them, it's a series of, you're looking for this file, for this process, this Windows registry key changed, you know, this, this little piece of software ended up on a Mac, and you actually have all of these.
a16z Podcast | The Promise (and Nightmare) of Cross-Platform Software
- ▶ 0:50 Benedict Evans So if you were to look at, you know, Windows and Mac, you have a file picker, you have Windows, you have scroll, you have,
- ▶ 7:55 Steven Sinofsky Double down and does more work and makes the experience better, integrates it with Siri, integrates it at the Mac and does like a bigger, cooler dashboard.
- ▶ 9:49 Steven Sinofsky iOS apps for, from Microsoft because it's this Mac. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:39 Benedict Evans I mean, they put up a chart yesterday where they said, well, 80% of, um, 40, 50% of Macs are running, um, the latest version of Mac OS, and a much smaller proportion of, um, PCs are running Windows eight. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 13:55 unnamed speaker Well, and, and what does that say about sort of Mac and OS X versus the iOS world?
a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
- ▶ 16:18 Benedict Evans It's not like the last platform wars, where, you know, um, Internet Explorer won, Windows won, and that was kind of, you know, then you kind of knew what the interaction model was going to be for the next 15 years, and, you know, Microsoft…
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 7:33 Benedict Evans You know, when you're, if you were a software developer, 30 years ago, when you were saying, right, we're going to invest ten million dollars making an application for Windows, do we invest another five making it for Mac, and there's no…
The End of the Beginning
- ▶ 22:26 Benedict Evans Mac had more share of web servers than Linux, and the World Wide Web was three percent of internet traffic.
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 6:16 Alex Rampell Yeah, I remember it as, you know, so we had downloadable Windows and Mac software, primarily Windows, and that was kind of going like this, and then it fell off a cliff, and then as we were falling down that cliff, then social gaming was…
Culture and Revolution
- ▶ 23:33 Ben Horowitz You've got to separate Mac OS off of the Mac, and you've got to get clone makers to make, you know, and you've got to go into the operating system market, because PC economics has wiped it out, and like, that's what you have to do, and…