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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired Aug 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:00:29 David Rosenthal Wrestle OS X into iOS and to get it to run on a battery-powered mobile device that fit in your pocket.

The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired Jun 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:34:25 Steve Ballmer But not uncorrelated, the way that AWS and, and I get the sense, and I think Mac, Mac versus everything iOS is also uncorrelated.

Meta (Audio) · Acquired Oct 28, 2024 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 2:40:12 David Rosenthal There was no SDK in that first iPhone and iOS.
  • ▶ 3:19:40 David Rosenthal One, and I think this is kind of like the uber problem that everything else is downstream of, iOS and Android are closed proprietary ecosystems not controlled by Facebook.
  • ▶ 3:20:46 David Rosenthal But, okay, specifically, why is iOS and Android being closed proprietary ecosystems such a problem?
  • ▶ 4:01:17 Ben Gilbert And the group of people that they pulled together from Joe Hewitt forward to write their original iOS app.
  • ▶ 4:01:22 Ben Gilbert It's just like some of the best iOS developers and designers in the world.
  • ▶ 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…
  • ▶ 5:03:09 David Rosenthal Like, hey, how about you let us bring our platform that we've just built that has all these developers into iOS, into your platform.
  • ▶ 5:03:20 Ben Gilbert Oh, to make Facebook platform part of the iOS developer?
  • ▶ 5:03:33 Ben Gilbert But they did have enough of a relationship where Facebook and Twitter both were privileged citizens on an early version of the iPhone OS.

Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired Jul 22, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:15:49 David Rosenthal Imagine if a ruling comes out tomorrow that Apple needs to be broken up, and iOS needs to be separated from the devices, and you need to be able to buy a phone without iOS.
  • ▶ 2:17:59 David Rosenthal Could you imagine if Apple on their developer site, Apple, were just like, hey, here's, you know, iOS 23.
  • ▶ 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.
  • ▶ 3:05:51 Ben Gilbert Is it like iOS?
  • ▶ 3:32:27 Ben Gilbert They do something like universal binary with the apps, where all the same apps that I had installed on my Mac, they now run their iOS counterpart, they grab all the data that's stored in the same places, so all my apps, you know, it knows…
  • ▶ 3:32:41 Ben Gilbert It has the YouTube videos cached, it, you know, does whatever, but it just turns into an iPad with an iOS UI.

Hermès (Audio) · Acquired Feb 20, 2024 · 1 mention

Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired Sep 6, 2023 · 4 mentions

Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired Apr 26, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:07:12 Blake Robbins Uh, and Fall Guys was this amazing party game that they couldn't publish on iOS because of the Apple lawsuits.

Amazon Web Services · Acquired Sep 6, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:16:56 Ben Gilbert Cool stuff that iOS lets you do, like the latest APIs and, you know, the lowest level hardware features.

Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired Apr 20, 2022 · 3 mentions

SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired Mar 7, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:16 Ben Gilbert I mean, I went and downloaded Fortnite on all my iOS devices when I thought they were all going to be removed.

Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired Feb 22, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:31 Brandon Millman We started off as a Chrome extension, but more recently released our iOS app at the end of January.

The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired Feb 15, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.
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