Macintosh, every mention
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Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 14:20 Marc Andreessen You know, nobody ever asked for a Macintosh.
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 32:41 Alex Rampell And then lo and behold, there were like, 10,000 times more, you know, DOS and Windows software products than there were Macintosh software products. 2 times in the scene
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 30:29 Steven Sinofsky Microsoft came along and, for Windows, built print drivers and a clipboard, and all of a sudden, and also Macintosh did it, all of a sudden, you, there was a way that two applications that had no a priori knowledge of each other, but of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:43 Steven Sinofsky Ancient Mac product that was lauded by the industry called, uh, Claris Works. 2 times in the scene
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 5:28 Steven Sinofsky In order to finally ship computers to home, which is something that a guy named Dana Lewin, who ran the Computer History Museum, he really cracked that working for Apple in the, in the early 19 eighties, and that's how Macintosh made it to…
- ▶ 18:49 Steven Sinofsky We understand what it was like to build a Mac.
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 27:36 Steven Sinofsky And so, like, and then the Macintosh came out in the spring, and
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 14:01 Steven Sinofsky Macintosh, of course, was famously the same thing, but, and Steve pushed and pushed on costs, and the shape of it, made the famous toaster that you carry around, and things like that. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 38:52 Marc Andreessen Um, and so the, the rivals, the rivals specifically of the Macintosh, and then followed by that, the arrival of Windows, Windows version three, um, and the, and the first graphical PCs.
- ▶ 40:44 Marc Andreessen Computers, PCs and Macs up until 93, 94 didn't even come with TCP IP built into the computer, built into the operating system.
- ▶ 49:37 Marc Andreessen We're just going to assume that everybody has like windows or a Mac, um, or a Unix workstation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:56 Marc Andreessen And then we, we had other colleagues, um, who, um, you know, who are, you know, very, very famous in the history, um, who developed the Windows version and developed the Mac version.
- ▶ 1:18:15 Marc Andreessen Um, getting to the Windows and the Mac versions were, were a key moment, because, you know, they followed, um,
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 2:31 Steven Sinofsky Is, is only on the Mac.
- ▶ 19:12 Steven Sinofsky Um, and, but, and we were selling Office on the Mac and just started selling it really well on Windows. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 40:09 Safi Bahcall So the Lisa that he tried to earn was a flop, the Apple III when it was a flop, and when he developed the Macintosh, although it was a, you know, phenomenal ad that goes down in the history of advertising,
a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
- ▶ 1:28 Marc Andreessen The Lisa was the Mac before the Mac. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:44 Bobby Kotick So the Wii, I, like, that moment I was describing to you about the Macintosh, when I first saw the prototype of the Wii, it was like that equivalent goose bump moment.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 7:17 Frank Chen He brought Office to the Mac, and then IE became the default browser. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:37 Ken Kocienda So, if you remember how Steve introduced the product, he, uh, he said, uh, you know, give his, you know, very dramatic introduction, you know, he said that something to the effect of, well, uh, we've got, you know, a groundbreaking…
- ▶ 1:15:20 Ken Kocienda He thought, he thought that it was, you know, in the, you know, you know, sort of tapping into the, uh, excuse me, the little sort of whimsical, whimsical aspect that went all the way back to sort of like the Happy Mac on the original…
- ▶ 1:25:05 Ken Kocienda Uh, I couldn't afford a Mac. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 37:17 Steven Sinofsky Not that that wasn't, but to, what, what this means is that there was, Apple had to make one decision for every component that made a Mac, and that was the only one they could make. 3 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.
a16z Podcast | Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
- ▶ 26:10 Derek Thompson Um, there's that famous scene where, uh, Michael Fassbender is pointing at the Mac two and he goes, this has to look like a face.
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 11:30 Marc Andreessen You know, it's funny, it's almost the reverse of what Apple did, what Steve Jobs did with the Macintosh, where he, he had the same issue, the Apple II dominated the business, 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond!
- ▶ 12:30 Lawrence Levy Before he left Apple, there was the Apple Leaser, and there was the Apple Macintosh.
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 9:46 Chris Dixon So, which means also it probably works with a Mac soon if Apple ever gets their drivers updated.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 36:01 Alex Rampell When the iPod came out, Apple also came out with iTunes, and iTunes only worked on the Mac, and the iPod was designed to sell more Macs, so therefore, why are they going to bother making 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 2:27 Benedict Evans And so you could almost, should almost be looking at this and thinking, okay, Windows, Mac, 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
- ▶ 24:48 Steven Sinofsky Which is something they learned from the original Mac.
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 0:33 Alex Rampell I mean, I fell into all of this by accident, and the way that I started was I got a Mac as a computer. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:41 Alex Rampell I got the Mac II, which was the first color Macintosh.
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 7:30 Steve Cheney And if you think about, um, when Apple invented the mouse, or I think it was park, um, but when the Macintosh had a mouse, really what that meant is it meant that you moved your hand and wrist on a table and you didn't worry about the…
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 28:03 Benedict Evans I don't actually know what the number was, but they've got eighty million Macs now, so they didn't have very many Macs back then. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing
- ▶ 8:02 Tom Reichert You know, you think of kind of the, your Macintosh and like the, the printer driver and the printer utility, like that's that kind of level of abstraction and kind of ease of use to, to print things in three D is just starting to, to go…
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 14:58 Benedict Evans And actually, even more striking for me, because I'm sort of that much younger, is seeing the original video where he unveiled the original Mac.
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 23:51 Benedict Evans Why wouldn't you buy a Windows or a Mac?
Kevin Fu
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 12:17 Benedict Evans So on the left, you have the original Apple Mac.