macOS
also referred to as: mac os
3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benedict Evans · said 34 times in 18 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Benedict Evans (8), Steven Sinofsky (6), Frank Chen (4), Kyle Russell (2), Eugenia Kuyda (2), Jason Rosenthal (1), Fred Benenson (1), Balaji Srinivasan (1)
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2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 29 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
- a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
- a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about macOS, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Benedict Evans: Consumers will converge on owning two main device screens
“You're just going to have this endless proliferation of screens, and people will have two, probably. They'll have one that they put in their pocket and carry everywhere. They will have, they may or may not have a much bigger one that allows them to do more stu…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Stephen Sinofsky: Legacy desktop OSs cannot retroactively add mobile architecture features
“All the things about power management and security and reliability this whole sealed case notion of the phone and the tablet OS's, these modern OS's, these are huge, huge benefits. And there, there's no way of sort of retroactively adding those to the existing…”