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Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software Nov 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:44 Eugenia Kuyda And so we started thinking, we got obsessed with this metaphor that the current chatbots are really the Microsoft DOS era for AI interfaces, and that there will be some sort of a Windows Mac OS moment. 2 times in the scene

Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money Jul 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:11 Balaji Srinivasan If we have enough context, not from LLMs, but from pointer movements and mouse clicks on, you know, iOS or, or, or other, or Mac OS.

Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora Mar 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:18 Adam D'Angelo So this is things like building applications across iOS and Android and Windows and Mac, localization of the interface,

a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree? Apr 1, 2019 · 1 mention

Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs Feb 24, 2019 · 4 mentions

a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:10 Jason Rosenthal As the story goes, Jobs killed them all except for one that became the iMac, and that kind of sort of worked, and then from there came, uh, you know, the new PowerBooks that worked a little bit better, and then OSX, and then the iPod, and…

a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices? Jan 2, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 15:11 Steven Sinofsky He says, the beautiful thing about this is it's really just the Mac operating system under the, under the covers.
  • ▶ 23:48 Steven Sinofsky You know, the idea that people, the cynical people are saying, oh, this is Apple, like their last ditch effort to refuse to put touch in Mac OS. 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:11 Fred Benenson But it's actually up to your computer's operating system, whether it's OSX or iOS or Android or whatever, to go fish out a little image and put it on your screen.

a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:26 Kyle Russell iOS on your phone and iPad, Mac OS, renamed from OS X on the desktop and laptop computers they make, and watch OS. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:58 Benedict Evans So just, you know, sort of, kind of an unfair but relevant comparison, you know, um, the Wintel ecosystem now, as a percentage of total computing, so including tablets and smartphones and everything else, is now sort of 15% of unit sales,…

a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:49 Benedict Evans So they didn't, like, do a recap of the new version of OSX, which is launching next week.

a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:34 Benedict Evans Um, rather it was kind of Windows and Mac OS built up all that kind of stuff over the last 30 years.

a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:13 unnamed speaker So we hear about updates to iOS, to OSX.
  • ▶ 0:47 Benedict Evans So we have OSX, which is a platform that has about eighty million users, and there's some good, solid, sensible stuff in there.
  • ▶ 8:49 unnamed speaker For the rest of us, fall for OSX, iOS nine, and Apple Watch.

a16z Podcast | The Promise (and Nightmare) of Cross-Platform Software Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive Jan 2, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 11:48 unnamed speaker Does it, it just makes it easier than ever for folks to write apps for iOS or OS X, but are we going to start to see it outside the Apple world? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:55 unnamed speaker Well, and, and what does that say about sort of Mac and OS X versus the iOS world? 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next? Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:04 Steven Sinofsky And, and there, there's no way of sort of retroactively adding those to, um, to the, to the existing, you know, OS's, whether it's Mac OS or Linux or, or Windows.
  • ▶ 15:24 Benedict Evans What we would think of as a PC running Windows or Mac OS.
  • ▶ 16:32 Benedict Evans It kind of doesn't look that different, whereas we have no real idea what Mac OS, what iOS or Android are going to look like in five years' time, or what Windows Phone will look like in five years' time.

Distribution, Channel & Partnerships Oct 26, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:38 Alex Rampell Now in today's era, iPhone app developers or Android app developers, but this was kind of back in the era of Windows and Mac software.
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