App Store, every mention
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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:13:28 Ben Gilbert Even with recently being number one in the App Store, it still feels hard to believe
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:41:41 Ben Gilbert Remember, it didn't have an app store.
- ▶ 2:46:55 Ben Gilbert Apple didn't have an App Store.
- ▶ 2:49:28 David Rosenthal Now that's a little bit unfair to the iPhone because by the time the G one actually launched, Apple had indeed just shipped the app store.
- ▶ 2:51:44 Ben Gilbert You can't put your own apps on it from anywhere but the App Store, even after it launches.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:13:31 David Rosenthal Cause App Store launched the next year.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:33:14 Ben Gilbert 2008, the iPhone three G comes out with the app store for the first time, the SDK, all these developers building for it.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 43:06 Ben Gilbert I remember thinking the same thing when I shipped my first app to the App Store.
- ▶ 43:17 Ben Gilbert Two programmers uploaded something to the App Store.
- ▶ 4:05:43 Ben Gilbert People don't search the app store for apps that often, so you'd have to show them like a pop-up ad or something.
- ▶ 4:06:01 Ben Gilbert Facebook was almost built to be the monetizable front end to the app store.
- ▶ 5:05:02 Ben Gilbert Facebook was making billions of dollars off of deciding what apps in the App Store get downloaded.
- ▶ 5:10:50 Ben Gilbert I get the sense that the app install business for the app store, those search ads is going great, but it's not like equivalent to what the monetization over at Meta is on app install ads or was on app install ads.
- ▶ 5:11:11 David Rosenthal Dollars into ads in the app store.
- ▶ 5:11:13 David Rosenthal And the reality is people just don't go to the app store searching for apps anymore.
- ▶ 5:11:22 Ben Gilbert This kneecapped a lot of the, like, we have a friend that's in the retail business who was saying that their ads doubled in price in 2022 when this happened, and they were sort of scratching their head, and they have nothing to do with the…
- ▶ 5:18:32 Ben Gilbert I mean, Apple made a ten billion dollar dent in their revenue just two years ago with ATT, and I mean, they could, I don't think they would, but they could at any given moment just pull you out of the App Store, and you'd have little…
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:01:00 David Rosenthal I think it was iOS, right, with the, uh, op store opening up, and the SDK comes out, and the world completely transforms.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 55:03 Mitch Lasky And the, and those businesses have to have a strategy that transcends, I want to make a game and put it on Steam, or I want to make a mobile game and put it in the App Store, right?
- ▶ 55:21 Mitch Lasky oh, then we're going to go make another game and put it on Steam or put it in the App Store.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 26:10 Ben Gilbert I feel better than I did about the decentralized world computer, but I still can't articulate to you, like, when the App Store launched, like, oh, this will be an, an eighty billion dollar on-demand car service market.
- ▶ 26:26 David Rosenthal Like, we look back now, and we're like, oh, when the App Store launched, it was obvious.
- ▶ 30:16 Ben Gilbert When the App Store first came out, you could stare at it and go, this is going to change everything, but it was only a select few people who actually saw the particular massive use case with the new thing.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 31:21 Ben Thompson Not just in terms of Apple's growth, but also the explosion, the app store.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:05 David Rosenthal Right, in the app store.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:17 Ben Gilbert That platform is not Windows of the past, or the App Store of the current day, where it was just sort of coming.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 49:52 Ben Gilbert You know, it's the 30% stuff with the App Store,
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:52:03 Ben Gilbert So they looked in many ways sort of like Apple in the nineties in their diversity of products, you know, cameras and headphones and all this stuff, PDAs, all that, but without good software and Apple by shifting down to just a few product…
Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:59 John Bathgate I agree with that, especially if you're, I mean, if you really have a management team that's thinking really long-term, I don't know why you wouldn't give up a little bit of extra economics for your key partners, whether that's suppliers…
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:58 Ben Gilbert Like, Apple has plenty of offenses in potentially abusing their app store privilege, uh, but I think that's a little bit of a different thing.