Cell Phone
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
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the MAD Podcast 
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8 statements about Cell Phone, every show
Sternfels: McKinsey mistakenly predicted in the 1980s that cell phones would fail
“One of the things, unfortunately, great failures that we had was we did a project and it was published a while ago for AT&T in the mid eighties that said these things were never going to take off. Cell phones were never going to really get going.”
Belichick: Cell phones and smartwatches are banned from team meetings
“Well, first of all, we don't have cell phones and Apple watches and things like that in our meetings so that they're not part of the meetings, but when the meetings are over, you know, a lot of times the guys race to see what, you know, messages and texts and …”
Feldman: AI adoption will equal cell phone penetration within two years
“I do think that Within a year or two. AI's penetration will be approximately the same as telephones, cell phones.”
Bill Smith: Made $5,000 monthly selling mobile phones at age 16
“I would get out of school and drive my minivan to the car dealerships in the area and sell phones to all of the new car salesman. And I was making 5000 dollars a month selling these phones.”
Assaiante: Smartphones are the seventh gate to hell for young people
“The cell phone is the seventh gate to hell. There's no question in my mind, because everything is perfect.”
Pasricha: Merely placing a phone between strangers dramatically reduces rapport
“They put a cell phone in between them, and it was not the cell phone of either person. It was not your phone or my phone. It was a dummy prop. It was just a half phone. But the presence of that physical device that nobody could actually touch or do anything wi…”
Lasky is short Magic Leap, favoring cell phones for AR
“I would say I'm quite short the approach of the magic leaps of the world that sort of require a visor and maybe for an industrial application, but are you really going to walk around the city looking like you're doing Star Trek cosplay, you know, just so that …”