Android, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Android comes up
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.
- ▶ 2:04:57 David Rosenthal Technology, the technology industry at large to have, just like with Android, you had a, um, you know, iPhone rivaling operating system available off the shelf for any kind of application that let a million flowers bloom.
- ▶ 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.
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 17:06 Packy McCormick Like, Twitter needs to be the Apple of social media.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:58 David Rosenthal Android's gonna win.
- ▶ 36:25 David Rosenthal Plus all of the other stuff you would need for a system on a chip to power Android headsets.
- ▶ 39:25 David Rosenthal We didn't talk about this as much in the Sony episode, but my impression of the whole Android
- ▶ 39:52 David Rosenthal Like, if you are making everything from chips all the way up through hardware in the Android ecosystem, I don't think you're making it.
- ▶ 1:36:04 David Rosenthal Oh, it's like, um, what are the Android phones that Google makes?
- ▶ 1:38:59 David Rosenthal Like the Android market.
- ▶ 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.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 35:51 Brendan Eich And they did a credible job on making it a good mobile browser as mobile came up through Android.
- ▶ 35:57 Brendan Eich Android kind of double started at that G one.
- ▶ 36:01 Brendan Eich It was the first Android device.
- ▶ 36:08 Brendan Eich But Android took a while to get anywhere near decent, and I still can't use it, even though I've got many complaints about Apple.
- ▶ 52:31 Brendan Eich You're the, you're the least power hungry browser on Android.
- ▶ 1:28:58 Brendan Eich Pre-installs aren't really happening outside of the apps from the OS superpower like Android, Google, or iOS, Apple.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:14:12 David Rosenthal Voice memos, if it's an Apple phone or some equivalent on Android, probably can get access to a piano, and yet you cannot write like Taylor Swift.