Apps

“We're really on the cusp of a wave of apps. And like the fact that now you can apply capital without also being a recruiter for 10 years and have output, now all of the world that's unserved by software, which is literally all of it, like everybody who complai…”

“Some point, the people spending a trillion dollars a year are gonna want some apps to pay for all this.”

“I think you're gonna have apps, because there are certain circumstances, many circumstances, where the communication back to you is much more efficient in the written word or in pictures.”

“So I think the inbound interaction Is going to move more and more away from apps. I think people are going to use apps, but the inbound interaction is going to be much more unstructured, and AI makes it possible.”

“And so it does sort of seem to me that like, if the chatbot isn't the UX and it needs to be apps and the model companies aren't going to build that. And the models themselves are basically commodities, as, at least as you can see them as users, then why would …”

“This is the future of building apps. It's not about the features that you build. It's not about, you know, using AI to code it up. It's about distribution.”

“I think the future are not apps, the future agents, but I don't think they're going to be text forward. I think they're going to be really rich user interface.”

“I don't think there will be apps in the future. I think there will be agents. So, like, if we're attached to apps, I don't think there will be apps, so we better, like, let go of that.”

“I think that everyone's gonna have, like, an AI operating system they work in, and everyone will just have personal agents and agents to manage each department of their company, and people won't actually use these apps anymore.”

“I think 80% of them are going away.”

“Only the apps that actually have sensors, maybe they survive.”

“It's very similar to what's happening right now with apps and agents. How do you bring apps and agents together as opposed to just talk about the future, which is agents, and the past, which is apps. You know, there was a time when SQL was being looked at in t…”

“Design obsession has helped us a lot and just polishing every single interaction, making sure that we only ask questions that are absolutely necessary, that we can pre-fill any form that can be pre-filled so that you have As little work to do as a user of the …”

“I think before we go back to that stable world where these business models have transformed, we're going to go through a very disruptive phase where a lot of these apps will be rewritten.”

“Like, websites are gonna talk back to you. Apps are gonna talk back to you. You're gonna have digital avatars that are gonna talk back to you. And this is, like, for better and for worse.”

“People don't want apps that are black and white anymore. You know, soulless, like, brands anymore. They want fun brands. They want calm. And then intelligence, finally, intelligence”

“Platforms need apps. You want to have the top first party app that runs on your platform. Otherwise your platform can't get good.”

“I would say go make, like, 50 apps. Just, like, keep iterating. Don't get stuck on one. Like, that's my advice is to If you have an idea, try to make it three different ways and then move on to the next idea and you'll get really good at using all these tools …”

“I think this thing that will happen quite soon is, like, we're gonna have an app, and like, you're gonna wake up, and you're gonna look at your app, and you're gonna read what it says, and you're just gonna do it. Like, the app will tell us, like, go do this. …”

“There's also like this drove like tens of thousands of downloads of the app and trying the app.”

“Because the best feedback loop to build a great platform for other people to use is to be building apps.”

“And so I think that that the TAM is going to be a hundred X. It's going to be every endpoint. The revenue is going to come from the apps side of it, and then there'll be a developer side of it. It'll just be a different pricing model for different sets of scen…”

“Actually, I don't agree that apps will disappear, and here's why. If you have a four, let's say you have a 30 different apps, in theory, you don't need 30 apps. You need, maybe, if all these vendors and companies work together for one single app, that can do e…”

“When you think about it, poker players are probably the best customer that you can have when it comes to like sports and, you know, games and people who would use apps.”

“I think that if you think of characters as the new apps, Then there's a huge opportunity, and not many people are talking about this, around just ideating on characters, figuring out what's gonna work, and launching them.”

“I think five million apps will be redesigned in the next 10 years. They all become agents.”

“The idea that you have a bunch of apps come together on some standard around parental controls just seems way more complicated and less successful than just having the actual platforms do it.”

“One of the things that you're saying, which I think is really the future of the internet is Adding opening hours and closed hours to apps.”

“The way I see it, enterprise need to see analytic pipelines, ML pipelines, and their apps as assets themselves. Like, IP assets they have to manage over the course of one, two, five, 10 years.”

“The traditional idea of what an app is, is, is effectively gonna disappear and it kind of already has.”

“Till about 1617 80% of our business used to come from our website. 20% used to come from apps. And within a year, it went to exactly the reverse.”

“Like we used to write websites, then we wrote apps, and now we're going to write these kind of in-stream services, these plugins.”

“The median number of new apps, I read this somewhere, installed a month, is zero for the average person.”

“And I think we're going to see a change in the merchant behavior on Shopify, which will of course have a trickle down effect into the apps. I think we're going to see a lot more stores closing, sadly.”

“A lot of apps will get actually replaced by messaging based chatbots and so on.”

“What I'm planning to do is to get the best principles from everybody and then make that all available on an app in which then people can then vote up what are the best principles for that particular thing that they're encountering, and so then when that thing …”

“The word innovation or, you know, apps Yes, for humanitarian aid have become almost meaningless because everybody thinks that they can create an app and it's going to solve the problem, or we can paste the word innovation on anything, and that basically become…”

“If I was to say I installed an app on my smartphone in five years time, I don't quite know what that word would mean.”

“You are the most important thing in a corporation's life, but the corporation is not the most important thing in your life. And so they want you to have the app, but that doesn't mean you want the app.”

“That's how you solve the binary problem of the app is installed or it's not installed, because you've got this intermediate layer where content can show up that doesn't have to be the app.”

“To me, I've always thought Apple Pay was more interesting in apps than at point of sale, because you go into a store, you pull something out of your pocket, you put it on a thing, and you do a thing, and whether it's a phone or a card, I mean, this is what peo…”

“Every, every website attempts to expand until you can turn, get people to install an app. And then every app attempts to expand until you can send notifications. And then every notification expands until it becomes an app.”

“Most everybody is going to just use about seven apps on their phone. And the same holds for PCs.”

“We did what the Windows seven launch, we talked about that there were over 800,000 apps that got used just during the beta process.”

“Actually, there is an app coming out made by Money Mustache Readers, and the joke is that it's going to include a mustachian Tinder feature.”

“90% of the time that all of us spend on a mobile device is in an app, and most of those apps are games.”