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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:44:36 Ben Gilbert So there's this amazing moment right after Google rolls out speech recognition, their latest use case for neural nets, just on Nexus phones, because again, they don't have the infrastructure to support it on all Android phones.
- ▶ 1:44:53 Ben Gilbert And figures out if people use this for, I don't know, call it three minutes a day, and we roll it out to all billion Android phones, we're gonna need twice the number of data centers that we currently have across all of Google just to…
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22 Ben Gilbert Of course, YouTube, then Android, and their own web browser with Chrome.
- ▶ 2:23:18 Ben Gilbert Over three billion active Android devices now.
- ▶ 2:24:49 Ben Gilbert But before we tell the, before the Android story, now is a great time to thank one of our favorite companies, Vercel.
- ▶ 2:29:19 Ben Gilbert I mean, he, of course, is instrumental in the Android story later.
- ▶ 2:35:50 Ben Gilbert The correct way to think about Android is that Google built it in-house with a little kick in the pants from this startup kind of got far enough along with the idea that forced them to do it now.
- ▶ 2:38:01 Ben Gilbert If they don't buy Android and they don't get started basically in the month that they did, this market belongs to Microsoft.
- ▶ 2:40:10 Ben Gilbert And Android hasn't been announced yet, right?
- ▶ 2:45:02 Ben Gilbert So in Walter Isaacson's book, Steve Jobs says, I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product.
- ▶ 2:46:03 Ben Gilbert And I think Android arrived at a lot of similar conclusions at the same time.
- ▶ 2:46:49 Ben Gilbert When Android does launch, they have the market, which today is the Play Store.
- ▶ 2:46:57 Ben Gilbert Android had, when you swipe down, a notification center with all the notifications from each of your individual apps.
- ▶ 2:48:57 Ben Gilbert In fact, it may have even been like a Daily Booth for Android app.
- ▶ 2:52:55 Ben Gilbert It's Android versus Droid, so very convenient.
- ▶ 2:52:59 Ben Gilbert If you were to go survey the American public in 2009, 10, 1112, maybe even 13, and say, do you know about Android, the mobile operating system?
- ▶ 2:59:10 Ben Gilbert I mean, it's Android, but it's the open source version of Android that they've customized.
- ▶ 3:08:18 Ben Gilbert So I've been trying to think about what is the business of Android.
- ▶ 3:08:23 Ben Gilbert Google having Android versus Google not having Android.
- ▶ 3:08:50 Ben Gilbert I used to think, oh, because it's Android, they don't have to pay money.
- ▶ 3:10:45 Ben Gilbert It's basically fourteen billion to the, the Android mobile carriers and OEMs, plus Firefox?
- ▶ 3:12:34 Ben Gilbert So even though the Play Store made seven billion in 2019, the important thing is that Android is
- ▶ 3:13:02 Ben Gilbert So I guess what I'm saying is obviously Android was a giant success, and the biggest reason, even though they save, I don't know, 10, fifteen billion a year from not having to pay it to Apple, and even though they generate
- ▶ 3:13:50 Ben Gilbert And in 2013, it becomes Chrome and Android.
- ▶ 3:13:58 Ben Gilbert So today, there are more than three billion active Android devices.
- ▶ 3:16:32 Ben Gilbert By the way, can we just pause and say, 2009, this is like right after Chrome, right after Android.
- ▶ 3:16:41 Ben Gilbert I mean, it, it's kind of crazy that Android is happening over in this other building, and there's this, like, fight with Apple, and that's the same time that they're doing Google Wave.
- ▶ 3:19:33 Ben Gilbert Android, Chrome, Search, YouTube, developer relations, trying to sort of will a Google platform into existence.
- ▶ 3:19:51 Ben Gilbert Android was its own fiefdom, totally off on its own island, fighting an existential battle.
- ▶ 3:19:57 Ben Gilbert Chrome is starting to do the same stuff as Android.
- ▶ 3:20:02 Ben Gilbert It's not clear what belongs in an Android camp versus a Chrome camp, and Sundar hasn't unified them yet.
- ▶ 3:21:47 Ben Gilbert The whole Chrome and Bing thing was defense against Microsoft, Android was defense against Apple and Microsoft, and Google Plus is now defense against Facebook.
- ▶ 3:31:41 Ben Gilbert I think some things for Android users.
- ▶ 3:45:19 Ben Gilbert For example, in this episode, talking about Android, they massively counterpositioned against Microsoft.
- ▶ 3:46:41 Ben Gilbert Application developers on Android and users on Android.
- ▶ 3:50:24 Ben Gilbert So if they didn't have Android, how would you answer the question, is Google a platform company?
- ▶ 3:50:37 Ben Gilbert And even with Android, okay, great, they own the Target development platform.
- ▶ 3:51:23 Ben Gilbert Famously, I mean, that, that run in the 2010, aside from the big ones, from YouTube, from Android, from DoubleClick, from AdMob, there was also what became Google Groups, Spreadsheets, Docs, Blogger, they bought Applied Semantics with the…
- ▶ 3:55:29 Ben Gilbert The only way it could have gone better is if instead of launching Android, they launched the iPhone, and they also got the iPhone profits rather than just some small dollars that protected their core business.
- ▶ 3:57:16 Ben Gilbert Let's take that same definition.
- ▶ 3:57:45 Ben Gilbert Maps is advantaged by Android.
- ▶ 3:59:59 Ben Gilbert Android.
- ▶ 4:00:11 Ben Gilbert That's the reason that Android succeeded.
- ▶ 4:00:51 Ben Gilbert I mean, not the reason why Android, unlike these other ones, there's a clear line between the, it's almost like the Google products that succeed wildly organically, except for Android, are ones where there's almost no product.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:12:50 Ben Gilbert The bogey was Android.
- ▶ 1:12:59 Ben Gilbert It seems like until Android took off, Microsoft actually did have an opening to become the second mobile.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:35:05 Ben Gilbert We're starting to see a ton of different OEMs making Android phones.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:40:18 Ben Gilbert Android was a Blackberry clone at the time, not an iPhone clone.
- ▶ 4:02:36 Ben Gilbert And I think they had to, like, have an app in market where users were actually using it to realize, oh, man, the state of the art in native that the platform vendors have developed, iOS and Android, is really, really good, and they have…
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:08:34 Ben Gilbert And that was Andy Rubin before he started Android.
- ▶ 3:13:17 Ben Gilbert Google has acquired Android.
- ▶ 3:13:19 Ben Gilbert Google has transformed Android from a Blackberry clone into an iPhone clone.
- ▶ 3:20:41 Ben Gilbert Steve Ballmer realized pretty early, I think because of the Google Android thing, mobile was gonna shake out differently.
- ▶ 3:33:59 Ben Gilbert Lost to Android.
- ▶ 4:01:06 Ben Gilbert So I think less than free is actually the correct way to frame Android.
- ▶ 4:01:35 Ben Gilbert That wasn't going well, and so they were kind of left without a platform, and so they either needed to pick Windows Phone or Android as their platform of the future, despite being what used to be the dominant phone maker for all cell…
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:02:08 Ben Gilbert I think this is exactly the right framing here, that NVIDIA is the Apple of AI, and PyTorch is sort of Android, because it's open source, and it's got a bunch of different companies that care about it.
- ▶ 2:02:18 Ben Gilbert OpenCL is the Android as it pertains to graphics, but it's pretty bad and pretty far behind.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:48 Ben Gilbert They, they sell the high-end Android chip today.
- ▶ 1:43:55 Ben Gilbert And if you're buying a high-end Android phone, it's a Qualcomm, whatever, I don't know all the model numbers, but series eight gen one or something is the Snapdragon.
- ▶ 2:02:14 Ben Gilbert They already make Snapdragons for the high-end Android phones, and soon they'll be able to make a competitor to Apple's M series chips for laptops and desktops and maybe even servers.
- ▶ 2:14:00 Ben Gilbert Android phones are using MediaTek, and so Qualcomm kind of needed to buy Nuvia in order to differentiate the CPU and not just be using the stock ARM design that MediaTek and everyone else is using on much cheaper chips.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 2:17:02 Ben Gilbert but then you don't need to write an Android app too.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:47:36 Ben Gilbert So it's kind of the Android strategy, but run in the data center.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:00:23 Ben Gilbert Well, people kind of only switch in the direction from Android to iPhone.