AirPods, every mention
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every year anyone Ben Gilbert 9David Rosenthal 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AirPods comes up
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:00:35 Ben Gilbert One giant tailwind for us is a year after we started the podcast, AirPods came out, and it became societally acceptable to just listen to stuff while you're moving about the world.
- ▶ 2:01:23 David Rosenthal Uh, it's basically all the platform stuff that happened over the last 10 years, and we started at the right time to advance.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:22:13 David Rosenthal By far the best AirPods yet.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:41:37 David Rosenthal Using some form of audio to help fall asleep, or if I wake up in the middle of the night, get back to sleep, and I used AirPods for years and years, and they're great, but, you know, if you sleep on your side or do anything, we're like,…
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:13:13 Ben Gilbert And I, I did a bunch of photos and video, and we were on vacation that way, and then I discovered a thing that they're actually just awesome for, I think even better than AirPods, is phone calls.
- ▶ 4:13:57 Ben Gilbert I think that style of headphone over the ear, there's many things that it's not good for, like, when you're on an airplane or something, like, you want to plug your ears, or if you're in a super loud environment, but unless you're in one…
- ▶ 4:14:32 Ben Gilbert It basically is like you have AirPods in, but you don't actually have AirPods in.
Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 13:20 Ben Gilbert We wander around our house in our neighborhoods putting on AirPods and calling each other and talking about, you know, what's currently in our email inbox, what we're researching, what we need to do to ship an episode, prep for guests,…
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:00 Ben Gilbert Alright, well hopefully AirPods don't screw things up too bad.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:53:18 Ben Gilbert Like, how big a business is AirPods?
- ▶ 2:53:21 David Rosenthal Probably, well, I haven't done the math, but there are all those articles about how the AirPods business alone is like, you know, a Fortune 50 company.
- ▶ 2:53:34 Ben Gilbert Our listeners, if you want to help with the math, AirPods versus Sony, what's a bigger business?
- ▶ 2:53:58 Ben Gilbert I wish my AirPods switched, you know, between my computer and my phone more cleanly.