iPad, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPad comes up
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:40:42 Ben Gilbert So the first is discovering guided access on the iPad.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:57:00 David Rosenthal iPad, maybe, I don't think so.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:17:05 Steve Ballmer Now we, you know, again, would we have tweaked things, done things a little bit better, you know, or part of that iPad?
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:15:04 Ben Gilbert I just recently bought the new super-thin eleven-inch iPad Pro.
- ▶ 3:15:35 Ben Gilbert In fact, in particular, for each of these episodes now, I read the Worldly Partners research on the company we're covering from a friend of the show, Arvind, and I was able to read the whole thing, take it in, in a much more, like,…
- ▶ 3:16:08 Ben Gilbert This iPad is like so great.
- ▶ 3:16:11 David Rosenthal I'm so tempted because, you know, I mean, we both have the iPad minis that we got for when we do things live with guests.
- ▶ 3:16:19 David Rosenthal Oh, oh no, I was gonna say the iPad minis suck.
- ▶ 3:16:49 Ben Gilbert I wish it had the iPad Pro's screen.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:24:14 David Rosenthal And then Apple comes out with the iPad in 2010.
- ▶ 3:25:01 Ben Gilbert So, but you're right, the iPad coming out really validates, whoa, big tablets with multi-touch actually might be the computing paradigm for the future,
- ▶ 3:25:35 David Rosenthal The iPad sure as hell looks like it's gonna try and come do that to Microsoft's core PC market.
- ▶ 3:25:43 David Rosenthal I mean, the original Jobs keynote introducing the iPad lays out his vision, right, of like, the PC is gonna become the pickup truck,
- ▶ 3:25:52 David Rosenthal And the iPad is gonna become the car, and that would be a truly terrible thing for Microsoft, especially if that goes into the enterprise, as the iPhone is clearly going into the enterprise on the phone side.
- ▶ 3:26:04 Ben Gilbert Now, there was a little bit of a folly in believing that the iPad was the PC of the future.
- ▶ 3:26:09 Ben Gilbert Standing here today, we all can look at unit sales and realize, oh, the iPad was not the PC of the future.
- ▶ 3:26:16 Ben Gilbert It had its place, but it did not in any way replace PCs
- ▶ 3:31:49 David Rosenthal There's a reason why the iPad was a scaled up version of the iPhone, not a scaled down version of the Mac.
- ▶ 3:32:02 David Rosenthal I wish Apple would do this with the iPad.
- ▶ 3:32:05 David Rosenthal I don't want to have a MacBook and an iPad.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 3:32:54 Ben Gilbert I travel with an iPhone and an iPad and a MacBook, and I think I could just do two.
- ▶ 3:58:09 Ben Gilbert What users want is we have a good version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint that people can run on their iPads, and we've decided not to ship it to try and advantage Surface and other Windows eight devices.
- ▶ 3:58:53 Ben Gilbert Now, with all this hindsight, I understand why you wouldn't make the decision when you feel like the iPad could be the end of you.
- ▶ 3:59:41 David Rosenthal It really, it was an easy win for Satya during his first year to say, culture has changed here, we are shipping Office on iPad.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:54 Ben Gilbert Making hardware, gaming systems, gaming studios, Windows apps, iPad apps, Mac apps, operating systems, mobile operating systems, MP three players, search engines, cloud computing, services on cloud computing, programming languages,…
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:36:28 Ben Gilbert Whatever salespeople we hire to work at those stores, they're gonna sell the same iPhones and iPads that we have everywhere else at every other store.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:27:22 David Rosenthal They just use iPads, and they would have, as part of Apple Pay, they would have Apple Pay for merchant software that would be on the iPads.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:27:17 Ben Gilbert You buy iPads there, buy computers there.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:16 Ben Gilbert So got the iPad mini.
- ▶ 1:31:19 Ben Gilbert We both are rocking the mini because it's very, very good for onstage.
- ▶ 1:31:34 Ben Gilbert I really want the big iPad Pro, but I have basically no use for it.
- ▶ 1:32:43 David Rosenthal When you're doing purely personal travel, do you not bring this and just bring the iPad?
- ▶ 1:33:30 David Rosenthal We need to make edits to an episode or something, like, you can't do that on an iPad.
- ▶ 1:44:19 David Rosenthal And then on the iPad side, the iPad mini, I had the one really only negative experience besides the just amount of work that we and pitch book put into the arena show was my old iPad got stolen after the arena show.
- ▶ 1:44:19 David Rosenthal And then on the iPad side, the iPad mini, I had the one really only negative experience besides the just amount of work that we and pitch book put into the arena show was my old iPad got stolen after the arena show.
- ▶ 1:44:48 David Rosenthal But the Mini, I really like the Mini.
- ▶ 1:44:53 David Rosenthal I have an old iPad that we keep in the kitchen for when I'm doing the dishes and stuff.
- ▶ 1:45:00 Ben Gilbert Like the Minis don't have a ProMotion display, the 120 hertz.
- ▶ 1:45:04 David Rosenthal oh no, I've got like an old, old iPad that I don't think has ProMotion.
- ▶ 1:45:10 David Rosenthal I think it's an original, the first iPad Pro that they made in.
- ▶ 1:45:31 David Rosenthal The mini is great though for
- ▶ 1:45:51 Ben Gilbert I also find that night reading in bed, the iPad, even in the lightest setting, is kind of too bright.
- ▶ 1:46:05 Ben Gilbert Unlike iPhones, iPads are not waterproof.
- ▶ 2:08:15 David Rosenthal I do have an Apple Pencil for iPad minis, and
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:27 David Rosenthal The Ben Thompson iPad hand drawing.
- ▶ 37:34 Ben Thompson Thank goodness for iPads and the ability to sort of edit endlessly.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:46:23 David Rosenthal Uh, it turns out the iPad was the future.
- ▶ 2:02:25 David Rosenthal I mean, like iPads, phones, tablets, like, this is crazy.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:27:01 Ben Gilbert And iPad support.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 3:01:57 David Rosenthal Well, I didn't do any financial analysis, but as we'll talk about in the story, similar to the defense against Google with search, it was defense against Apple and the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad.
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 0:29 Ben Gilbert I like prepared things, and I should read them off my iPad here, but the only thought that can occur to me right now is how different this is than
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:52:45 David Rosenthal Put the Mac business aside for a second, you know, all of Apple's businesses, MP three players with the iPod, all their great successes, the iPhone, the iPad,
Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
- ▶ 34:31 Ben Gilbert The original vision actually was a connect your own iPad vision.
- ▶ 51:49 Ben Gilbert If you, if you haven't ridden the Peloton, like, why can't I just mount an iPad on an old, uh, iPad on an old exercise bike?
- ▶ 51:55 Ben Gilbert The biggest difference is that when the bike is not feeding information into whatever device you're using, you know, your iPad or something, it doesn't know what the resistance is and it doesn't know what your cadence is.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 1:05:01 Packy McCormick There was another moment where I wasn't allowed to buy an iPad until, uh, I actually made money from not boring.
- ▶ 1:05:07 Packy McCormick Uh, and so finally I had made like 10,000 dollars and Pooja let me buy an iPad.
- ▶ 1:05:35 Packy McCormick Like, Poosh, can I please, like, dip into savings here and get an iPad?
- ▶ 1:05:39 Packy McCormick Like, you cannot buy yourself an iPad that you don't need.