iPhone, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 26:40 Ben Gilbert When I first saw the iPhone, I thought this device changes everything, because I was like, I wanted one so bad.
- ▶ 27:37 David Rosenthal There was no carrier subsidization for the original iPhone.
- ▶ 27:40 Ben Gilbert And so it was fun to just, I brought my little point-and-shoot camera, I took pictures of all the people, uh, you know, getting their first iPhones and playing with them and setting up.
- ▶ 1:14:30 Ben Gilbert Which, by the way, I think that's why I'm so drawn to the NVIDIA story, is because that is what they, sort of like, these bet the company big innovations, or like Apple with the Mac and the iPod and the iPhone, or Microsoft with Windows…
- ▶ 1:34:58 Ben Gilbert I don't know if that is exactly right, but like four or five X, the current iPhone prices have a high willingness for an iPhone 14 pro mini.
- ▶ 1:36:01 David Rosenthal Which I have never had any of the pro iPhones.
- ▶ 1:45:18 Ben Gilbert Because that I actually missed when I was downgrading from the new iPhone down to the 13 mini, because the non-pro iPhones have never had promotion.
- ▶ 1:46:05 Ben Gilbert Unlike iPhones, iPads are not waterproof.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 39:56 Ben Gilbert now and everybody remembers the iPhone three G that, that second phone and the edge network that, that the first iPhone launch with was two G.
- ▶ 1:43:51 Ben Gilbert I mean, the world has sort of standardized around Apple makes the A series chips for your iPhone,
- ▶ 1:44:50 David Rosenthal Smartphone sold in the world, including Apple iPhones.
- ▶ 1:51:14 Ben Gilbert Apple has always used either Samsung processors, ah, in the first iPhones until they switched to their own.
- ▶ 1:53:01 Ben Gilbert iPhones.
- ▶ 1:54:28 Ben Gilbert They also stipulated that if Apple ever used a competing supplier and keep in mind, this deal is signed in the early days of the iPhone.
- ▶ 1:55:45 Ben Gilbert So, uh, around the time of the iPhone XS and XR, those phones actually did use Intel modems, but what was basically happening is the Intel modems were falling further and further behind Qualcomm.
- ▶ 1:55:45 Ben Gilbert So, uh, around the time of the iPhone XS and XR, those phones actually did use Intel modems, but what was basically happening is the Intel modems were falling further and further behind Qualcomm.
- ▶ 2:00:42 Ben Gilbert But we know from the most recent Qualcomm earnings call a week ago that, uh, the next version of the iPhone that comes out in November of 2023 will continue to use Qualcomm's chips.
- ▶ 2:01:05 Ben Gilbert So even next year's iPhone will have
- ▶ 2:03:55 David Rosenthal 20 bucks from Apple for every iPhone.
- ▶ 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.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 33:27 Ben Gilbert Or the new iPhone.
- ▶ 2:20:56 Jason Calacanis Uh, that one's it, but there's a famous photo of the two of us, uh, you know, in front of my Corvette and his P-One, uh, and I remember that night like it was yesterday, because we were, this is before the iPhone, you realize, like, Robert…
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 58:32 Ben Gilbert It's like how the new iPhone, it's like a two X better camera, but they don't tell you any sort of units or what vector that is better on.
- ▶ 3:44:22 Ben Gilbert And so until it becomes clear with machine learning or AR or crypto that we have the next iPhone moment,
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 31:11 David Rosenthal The Apple spin out that invented the iPhone, 20 years before the iPhone, as part of what they were doing, they also wanted to have, you know, the internet sort of barely existed, so I don't think they thought of it as the internet, but a
- ▶ 2:16:50 Ben Gilbert When I was an iPhone developer, people were telling me, use PhoneGap.
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.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 2:00:33 Ben Gilbert For a part of the business that didn't exist for the first 30 years, I mean, that is an iPhone scale company reinvention.
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 11:17 David Rosenthal And I think, uh, you know, no Morita, no Sony, no iPhone.
- ▶ 12:36 Ben Gilbert Uh, Intel's three 8604 86, Pentium four core two duo, which was in my first MacBook Pro, the A seven in the iPhone in 2013, and of course the recent Apple M one.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 26:42 Ben Gilbert Those were big bets relative to the company's size at the time, but this bet is like an iPhone-sized bet.
- ▶ 26:50 David Rosenthal It's an iPhone-sized bet.
- ▶ 32:52 David Rosenthal There was no iPhone.
- ▶ 33:51 David Rosenthal Remember when Clay Christensen was bashing on Apple in the early days of the iPhone being like, Yeah, oh yeah.
- ▶ 50:28 David Rosenthal So I think at this point, like everybody knows that this is pretty important, but it's not that much of a leap to say if you can train a computer to recognize images on its own, that you can then train a computer to see on its own, to…
- ▶ 54:18 Ben Gilbert It's like when people were all building on Windows in the nineties, or all building on the iPhone in the late 2000.
- ▶ 2:12:10 Ben Gilbert And then once I started downgrading my phone from the massive, awesome iPhone with the three X zoom, and I now have the iPhone.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 59:05 Hamilton Helmer I have an iPhone, and I really like it.
- ▶ 59:22 Hamilton Helmer I was on a plane and, and unfortunately ruined my iPhone and landed in Hawaii and had to get another one, and it was a very easy choice to get another iPhone as opposed to another product, so I don't think people are terribly dissatisfied…
- ▶ 1:00:13 Ben Gilbert Making iPhone apps like that's where all of the most affluent customers in the world do their computing, like spend their time so that they're probably not.
- ▶ 1:00:23 Ben Gilbert Well, people kind of only switch in the direction from Android to iPhone.
- ▶ 1:01:28 Hamilton Helmer If you lead a company that has very high switching costs, and I'd argue for most technical people, non-technical people, you know, an iPhone has very high switching costs.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 58:57 Brad Gerstner And so then it became, how do I become one of these icons, right, on the front of this iPhone?
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:18:07 Ben Gilbert I mean, the iPhone has no, no, at that point in time.
- ▶ 1:18:23 Ben Gilbert I mean, there's just been so much consolidation to the point where, like, if you go buy the best phone, which is the top of the line iPhone from Apple, that is the best one that humans can buy, and yet there are millions and millions and…
- ▶ 2:16:30 Ben Gilbert And they, I think, are now the sole supplier to the iPhone for the little sensor that enables all the cool computational photography stuff that's going on.
- ▶ 2:16:50 Ben Gilbert It's not just the iPhone.
- ▶ 2:16:55 Ben Gilbert I think the announcement was the iPhone four, but you know, when cell phone cameras turned from camera phones to like, whoa, these are actually becoming pretty good cameras.
- ▶ 2:17:33 Ben Gilbert And there's a lot of rumors around the next generation that'll be in the iPhone 14 and 15 that are like totally unbelievable.
- ▶ 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,
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 32:36 Brendan Eich There was like, oh, fat apps are back on the desktop, Windows longhorn, or when the iPhone launched, uh, eight months after actually, because the initial app model for the iPhone was web apps.
- ▶ 35:32 Brendan Eich And then he was at that point already aiming at mobile because the iPhone was out and he wanted
- ▶ 1:17:19 Brendan Eich I go to my neighborhood pool and I can scan a QR code with my iPhone and then sign in on the web form.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:20:08 Ben Gilbert We don't ask you for free iPhones.
- ▶ 1:20:33 David Rosenthal And then Ben, as you said, we don't ask you for free iPhones.