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Schroeder: Over six million illegal iPhones are in use in Iran
“IPhones are illegal, and there are over six million iPhones there.”
Benedict Evans: Apple Watch strategy enhances iPhone, unlike Google's cloud approach
“I mean, I think, you know, to Stephen's point about platform, this is clearly, you know, and again, this is what speaks to the, again, a sort of thing I talk about a lot, which is kind of a difference between Apple and Google, which is for Google, there's a wh…”
Sinofsky: Apple is on a path to untether the Watch from the iPhone
“The one thing I will say that's going to be magical is how Apple Like, evolves, their historic way of doing things has been to tether them, and then untether them over time, and so what I think is going to be interesting to see is if they can untether the watc…”
Chen: Apple monetizes via upfront hardware, not advertising revenue streams
“Apple's made the money it wants to make from you as soon as you buy the iPhone. It doesn't need an ongoing stream of advertising revenue on back, on the back of that for it to make its business model work.”
Benedict Evans: Installing a smartphone app won't mean downloading code within five years
“If I was to say I installed an app on my Android smartphone in five years, I don't really know what that would mean. You know, what would install mean? You know, what would app actually mean? What would Android mean? And so there's that question. Yeah, exactly…”
Rampell: Plastic credit cards have advantages over smartphones like unlimited battery life
“The problem is not, I pay with plastic, and by the way, plastic has unlimited battery life and a lot of other very, very positive attributes vis-a-vis an iPhone or a Samsung phone.”
Evans: Smartphone sales exceed the camera industry's entire historical unit sales
“And more iPhone and Android, more iPhones and Android phones have been sold and were sold by the camera industry in its entire history.”
Evans: Chinese teenagers prefer iPhones and Xiaomi over Samsung
“Indeed, if you then ask Chinese teenagers what brand they want, first they say they want an iPhone, then they say they want a phone from interesting new brands like Xiaomi or Meizu and Samsung is a hand-me-down phone they get from their grandmother. They all h…”
Evans: One iPhone launch sold 25x all 1995 computer transistors combined
“In the iPhone launch weekend, if you add up all the CPUs in all the iPhones Apple sold, They did about 25 times more transistors than were in all the computers on Earth back in 1995.”
David George: Pre-iPhone consensus models underestimated Apple by 3x
“Consensus models were off for Apple's performance by a factor of three X over four years.”
Acharya: Apple had 6M iPhones distributed when App Store launched
“When the App Store came out, there were six million iPhones in distribution, right?”
Chen: Mojo Vision's micro-display features 14,000 PPI density
“Made out of micro LEDs, this thing is half a millimeter across and has a pixel density of 14,000 pixels per inch. 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…”
Evans: 800M to 900M of Earth's 4B smartphones are iPhones
“There's five and a half billion adults on earth, and four billion or so people have a smartphone, and 809 hundred million of those now are iPhones.”
Ken Kocienda Invented the iPhone Magnifying Loupe for Cursor Placement
“The one thing that I did implement for the first iPhone was the loop. So you press and hold, and it would give that little magnifying glass above your finger that would show. And the whole idea of that is that we wanted your finger to be right where The insert…”
Benedict Evans: Bosch displayed 15 diverse products using identical sensor components
“Bosch had this great display where they had, like, 15 different consumer electronics products from the surface to an iPhone to a drone to a Nest, and they all had the same Bosch component sensor, sort of tilt sensor switch or something in them.”
McKinnon: Apple Touch ID dramatically increased iPhone passcode adoption rates
“They've turned on passcodes and more people are, have their phones locked now than ever before because they made it easier. You didn't have to type in that code and now they have a fingerprint reader.”
Evans: Apple sold 75 million iPhones, capturing 15% global market share
“Apple sold, getting on for 15% of all the phones sold on Earth in the last quarter, in the December quarter... Seventy-five million units.”