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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Android comes up on the a16z Podcast, Acquired, All-In, 20VC, Top Founders
AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
- ▶ 23:23 David Friedberg And this is what happened with Android.
Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 9:46 M.G. Siegler It's my, you know, Android test device, my backup to my iPhone, but it's also, um, just to be able to test out the flip.
- ▶ 15:18 M.G. Siegler And imagine like, obviously there's a lot of people who have both an iPhone and an iPad or, or an Android device in some tablet, um, be it an iPad or whatnot.
How I Built This $160K/Month Gym App
- ▶ 2:00 unnamed speaker You can see we're currently at around a 160 K monthly revenue, and we currently have around three million downloads both across iOS and Android.
I'm Obsessed With Local AI. Here's Why
- ▶ 1:41 Greg Isenberg The hardware could be your MacBook, it could be your Windows laptop, an Android phone, an iPhone, it could be a browser, a Raspberry Pi.
- ▶ 6:37 Greg Isenberg This is what you study when you want to move from, I ran a model on my laptop, to I want this model inside an iOS app, or an Android app, or web app, desktop app, whatever it is.
- ▶ 21:40 Greg Isenberg Um, Android, iOS, web, desktop, and edge environments.
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 37:38 Cliff Weitzman It's when you go lower, not lower, if you go then into the product facing things that we build, for example, the platform team, or the iOS team, or the Mac team, or the Chrome team, or the web team, or the Android team, these are super…
5 GitHub Repos: Kill AI Slop, Go Viral, Make Money
- ▶ 19:29 Greg Isenberg So phone harness connects an agent like Codex or Cloud Code to a real iPhone or Android. 4 times in the scene
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 1:20:18 Jason Calacanis I'd love to see Android.
Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 44:30 David Sacks Like, just like I said before, it's Apple versus Android, right? 2 times in the scene
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 12:01 David Sacks I think of it like Apple, you know, Apple's competing against Android. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:05 Jason Calacanis They have five products now with over three billion monthly users, each Android search, Gmail, Chrome, YouTube, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:31 Jason Calacanis Yeah, and it's just Android versus iPhone all over again.
More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:22 John Coogan I do think they have only one play left now to pull from their own Android Kubernetes playbook and fully embrace open models.
Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
- ▶ 57:46 David Sacks It might end up being a situation like Apple and Android, where Android got a lot of market share, but Apple's where all the monetization was.
Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:02 unnamed speaker And, and it's different, because when you go back to the iPhone, and Steve Jobs being mad at Eric Schmidt about Android, that was a tense moment that happened, A, behind closed scenes, completely. 3 times in the scene
The Future of Family Care Runs Through Health Tech with Dr. Ashley Blackington of Dovetail | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 3:16 Dr. Ashley Blackington We are available on Apple and, um, Google as well, or Android.
- ▶ 43:51 Dr. Ashley Blackington We are available on Android.
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:25 Boris Cherny And we actually do this for the CLI, for the iOS app, for the Android app, uh, for the desktop app.
AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:24 Jordi Hays The fact that Android and iPhone like battle each other out is not, is much better than like, there's just one and it's getting worse and it's like, there's nothing that you can do to lose.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 9:22 Qasar Younis Like, even that sounds trivial, because when you think about, mostly when you think about models, you think about deploying them through a browser or on a phone, and everything's abstracted away, because you have iOS, and you have Android,…
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 44:40 Ranjan Roy Actually, you, you can even feel that big company, uh, under, like, in the same article it talked about Google Counter, co-founder Sergey Brin and others were advocating for Google to move faster to seize opportunities in AI coding, but…
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- ▶ 16:36 Aman Narang We could make these, this technology a lot better by moving it to the cloud and by taking advantage of Android hardware, because Android hardware actually is open, which allows for, uh, which allowed us to build our own hardware, which was…
- ▶ 25:27 Aman Narang You know, like, the, the reason we, ah, we had so much conviction is, one, fundamentally, this was a big category in restaurants that hadn't benefited from the cloud, hadn't benefited from Android and mobile.
This Stupidly Simple App Makes $100K/Month
We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
- ▶ 1:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Early PMs in the Android team, and then, uh, worked at another fund before starting Afford. 2 times in the scene
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 5:06 Jason Calacanis You know, certain, uh, demographic segments, like in the Android space that they couldn't get into, but my God, what a colossal waste of time.
Token pricing
- ▶ 15:56 Benedict Evans You had to make for iOS and Android.
Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
- ▶ 3:50 John Coogan Uh, so he declared, Steve Jobs declared thermonuclear war on Google, on Google's Android operating system in 2010, calling it a stolen product. 6 times in the scene
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 59:45 Jason Calacanis That's exactly what they did with Android, right? 3 times in the scene
Handwrytten Sends 6 Million Fake Handwritten Notes a Year and Makes $10M
- ▶ 4:50 David Wachs It's all about, honestly, the, um, iPhone app and Android app are very, very small portion of our business.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 35:56 M.G. Siegler You could say like all the Android ecosystem together, but they're, they're so split between Samsung has their own AI and, and, you know, all these other services, you know, they partner with perplexity and, and so it's all going to be a…
Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:59 Jordi Hays Again, a, a positive tailwind for anybody building potentially a new device, even if it was, you know, uh, uh, especially if it's based on Android, but even if it was like an entirely new operating system, Elon built a new operating system…
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:02 Paul Erlang At a certain point, building a product transfers from like a game of intuition to a numbers game, because you just have so many users that like one of the early stories from Robinhood I love is that the deposit amounts from people with iOS… 2 times in the scene
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 2:57:13 Mike Krieger And everybody like goes and works on the one thing and like we'd be able to like play positions like Android we built. 7 times in the scene
Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- ▶ 37:40 Mike Krieger It was like video go and everybody like goes and works on the one thing and like we'd be able to like play positions like Android we built. 6 times in the scene
WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:12 unnamed speaker It's not like people were switching in droves to Android because Google assistant or Alexa was so much better.
- ▶ 10:09 unnamed speaker Mediocre at like the remove trash in the background feature, like, uh, Gemini, or I guess, uh, Android AI, like the AI camera on Android devices has been smoking them there. 2 times in the scene
Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage
- ▶ 6:17 Bill Maris Uh, so I first found a friend, Rich Miner, who's the co-founder of Android, uh, and he became my partner in crime as we conceptualized what, what could Google Ventures be?
Innovating the GLP-1 Health App Market with Aja Beckett of Shotsy | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 10:25 Aja Beckett Yeah, so we are on both the iOS App Store and on the Google Play Store, so iOS and Android.
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 17:38 Ranjan Roy And I wanted to like have an Android phone as well for testing.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 15:48 Benedict Evans And, you know, in particular, I remember, you know, by sort of 15 years ago, a lot of really, really clever people in tech looked at the iPhone and Android and said, you know, this is open versus closed again.
- ▶ 23:22 Benedict Evans Um, and, you know, it's kind of my point about iOS versus Android, just because you can say, well, it worked like that the last three times, that doesn't prove that it's, well, prove what's gonna happen this time.
Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel
- ▶ 6:39 Chamath Palihapitiya There's Android, there's iPhone, neither have really taken off yet.
The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 55:03 Gustav Söderström We bet that they were going to prefer their own products and never get be good on a Samsung TV or an Android phone.
Hermes Agent Desktop: Full Setup + Real Use Cases
⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
- ▶ 30:56 Ahmad Awais Like if you have one of the guys I was looking at his code, he built one Android app with command code, and now he's like, you know, I'm able to build more Android apps very, very quickly. 2 times in the scene
The spring updates on AI
- ▶ 5:55 Benedict Evans It's why Google create created Android.
- ▶ 28:58 Benedict Evans 19 92,009, in 2008, 2009, there were a lot of really, really clever people who thought Apple would get squashed by Android.
Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:57 unnamed speaker There's also a new Android-based OS operating system, uh, designed to run agents instead of apps called Project Solara, and there's a pretty cool demo, so we should play the video.
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 20:13 Walden Yan Another thing that we've actually recently added support now for, it's in beta, is doing Android development. 2 times in the scene
⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
- ▶ 1:25 Omar Sanseviero And when I say on-device, I mean, like, running in a phone, Android, Raspberry Pi, and so on, right?
- ▶ 4:03 Omar Sanseviero ADK, uh, and then Android as well, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:10 Omar Sanseviero We brought people from the Android team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:08 Omar Sanseviero So the release cycles in the Android world are, and in the iOS world, are very different.
My Two Apps Make $150K/Month Each
- ▶ 2:03 unnamed speaker Alright, so for Glammob, this is our iOS growth, and this is our Android growth.
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
- ▶ 45:27 Ivan Borzin It could be a windows, a Mac, an Android.
- ▶ 47:49 Ivan Borzin Um, so you can't do that, but let's, for example, if you need to run, we were solving this for one customer earlier today is they need a machine that also has an Android device inside of it.
S2 Ep10: How to Learn with the New Rules of AI ft. Peeyush Ranjan
- ▶ 5:01 Peeyush Ranjan Uh, for example, smartphone proliferation as Android went down in cost per unit.
- ▶ 25:30 Peeyush Ranjan And he was visiting and, uh, we talked about, uh, they had launched Android Nanodegree 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:20 Peeyush Ranjan So there was a time when, uh, iPhone and Samsung, and these were the key Android phones and Apple phone, and they were out of reach of most of the world.
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 8:28 Alex Kantrowitz Is anyone switching to Android from the iPhone because of this?
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:48:23 Cliff Weitzman Now I'm way more like I just buy people phones because that's the thing that I wanted is like, I'll go into the convenience store and just buy any Android that's there and give it to them. 2 times in the scene
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 20:46 M.G. Siegler I mean, this could, this in some ways, in an odd way, this might go back to the old iPhone versus Android and, and Clayton Christensen sort of debates of like, is, you know, good enough, good enough, like, you know, the commoditized… 3 times in the scene
Tech Earnings Quadkill, Red Button vs Blue Button | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:29 unnamed speaker Search, YouTube, Android, Cloud.
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:44 Demis Hassabis But also, for what, for now, what we've, we've decided is that our edge models, the things we want to use for Android, and glasses, and robotics, um, it's best that they're open models.
The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
- ▶ 0:00 Peter Ludwig Physical machines today are more akin to the state of the phone market before Android and iOS existed. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:25 Alessio Fanelli It's on like cheap Android tablet is like, it's laggy and all of that.
- ▶ 19:32 Peter Ludwig So physical machines today are more akin to the state of the phone market before Android and iOS existed. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:26 Alessio Fanelli So on Android, I don't need to use Gmail.
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 6:12 Alex Kantrowitz Sorry to Android users, my personal preference.
What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- ▶ 7:46 Evan Spiegel Uh, on Linux was really difficult to do, but it's way more performant than trying to repurpose Android, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:30 John Collison And then everything collapsed into just the single, you know, iPhone, Android form factor, and there's just gonna be a big touch screen, and that's it.
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 47:47 David Baszucki Um, can you imagine 10,000 simultaneous users photorealistic on a two gig Android device?
- ▶ 59:05 David Baszucki They're playing on a phone, a tablet, a computer, iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Xbox, PlayStation, MetaQuest.
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:54 Amjad Masad It deploys your app to TestFlight or the, uh, or, uh, or, you know, Android, whatever it is.
Hermes Agent: The New OpenClaw?
- ▶ 0:19 Greg Isenberg This is everything you need to know for how to run it, get started, and actually how you can even use it on an Android device.
- ▶ 1:07 unnamed speaker And I'll even show you how to install it on an Android phone.
- ▶ 12:51 unnamed speaker This one is actually running on a Solana Seeker Android phone that I have right here. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:21 Greg Isenberg You know, with the Android Hermes instance specifically, like, can, do you have any ideas that come to mind around like, okay, you know, if I were trying to make money with Hermes agent, 4 times in the scene
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:10 Harry Stebbings It's like an Android SPV, you know, with a 30% SPV, and a this, and a this, and a this.
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:42 Quan Vuong And there is Adnan, our hardware lead, um, that came over from Android.
The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
- ▶ 17:25 Mati Staniszewski Android, with Android you can work through it.
Driving Efficiency in Biotech Research with Andrey Doronichev of BIOPTIC | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 10:21 Andrey Doronichev If you think about Android, like other products that made Google so successful, uh,
- ▶ 31:58 Andrey Doronichev Web and, uh, and, uh, second being mobile, uh, starting with iPhone moment and Android and so forth, and, and now living the AI revolution.
Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Influence
- ▶ 30:43 Jason Calacanis They have the right to do it, but this is a giant movement to stop it, because this is the equivalent of having an open source Android-like player in the market, and that could be incredibly disruptive.
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 55:20 Balaji Srinivasan And so the reason that this is super, super, super important, there's only, um, you know, you can click this, you can install this on, on web or on, on iOS or Android, right?
How I use iMessage and AI to run my life
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 35:02 Marc Andreessen Um, and then, you know, it's been in the background ever since, and, you know, look, your Mac still has a Unix shell, you know, kind of in there, and your iPhone still has a Unix shell kind of buried in there somewhere, so they're kind of…
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
- ▶ 10:01 Alex Blania Um, and you know, with a new iPhone, you can have meaningful amount of trust against that, but with old Android phones basically not.
Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:29 Turner Novak Uh, a lot of Android phone makers have ARM-based chips.
I Built a $100K/Month Android App
- ▶ 0:11 unnamed speaker Something I've realized is that most people are sleeping on the potential of Android. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19 unnamed speaker Today, I'm really excited to share how we grew this to over a 100,000 dollars a month, primarily on Android. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:56 Pat Walls And you mentioned this a couple of times, which is what this hopefully video is about, which is Android. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:21 unnamed speaker iOS is way more expensive than Android, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:18 unnamed speaker So we naturally reverted to just running Android campaigns in the States because we didn't have the money. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:27 unnamed speaker Especially if you search for one of the keywords like calorie counter or calorie tracker, if you have an Android device pad and you search for a calorie tracker on the play store, there's a very high chance that we're going to be number…
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