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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where IOS comes up on the a16z Podcast, TBPN, Top Founders, 20VC, the Startup Ideas Podcast
Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 11:30 M.G. Siegler Like there have been reports that it's going to be sort of a hybrid between iOS and an iPad OS.
- ▶ 22:56 M.G. Siegler Of the new OS, uh, iOS and macOS and all the other, uh, products, and they're, they're stable.
- ▶ 30:10 M.G. Siegler Does Apple try to really, you know, play up the notion there, they have a new software feature coming in iOS where you can basically transfer your phone number from one device to the next super easily.
- ▶ 34:49 M.G. Siegler Like, um, iOS is of course an iPad OS are built for touch and Mac OS is of course built for a mouse and keyboard.
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.
- ▶ 6:54 Pat Walls It's our free iOS database, and inside you will find hundreds of proven app ideas, and many of them are making over 10,000 dollars a month.
I'm Obsessed With Local AI. Here's Why
- ▶ 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… 2 times in the scene
The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
- ▶ 31:36 Jay Parikh There was, you know, I guess there was like five people in the corner of the basement working on our iOS app.
How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 11:26 Matt Swulinski Super upper funnel event, um, because we had a desktop client and an iOS app made it super hard to track.
My top secrets to running an AI Agent Workforce
- ▶ 37:37 Ali K. Miller But the bottleneck is getting something from a local HTML file into like an actual iOS app, then that might be where you spend your time.
The Future of Family Care Runs Through Health Tech with Dr. Ashley Blackington of Dovetail | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 26:30 Dr. Ashley Blackington So first step and what has always been available, AOS or AOS, iOS, uh, we launched last year, um, in July.
- ▶ 43:50 Dr. Ashley Blackington We are available on iOS.
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.
This Simple App Makes $18K/Month
- ▶ 3:10 unnamed speaker And so about a year ago, AI coding became a viable option for building iOS apps.
- ▶ 15:08 Pat Walls So on that note, if you have an idea, if you want to put care into something that you build or use your skills to build your first iOS app, well, I'll put a link in the description for you to access our iOS bootcamp, which will take you… 2 times in the scene
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,…
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- ▶ 49:11 Aman Narang You know, had we launched the business in 2009 versus 2012, we may have tried to build it on iOS, which would have been the wrong call.
This Stupidly Simple App Makes $100K/Month
- ▶ 10:25 unnamed speaker I I'd say tech stack is very cheap used expo to make it so that it's both iOS and Android super wall for paywalls.
Stripe’s $53B PayPal Offer, OpenAI’s First Device, TBPN’s New Business Ideas | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:32 John Coogan On iOS, integrating to Codex or ChatGPT app on Mac.
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 7:39 Pat Gelsinger Somewhat optimized for a Windows environment versus an iOS environment, you know, in their, uh, operating system.
Token pricing
- ▶ 15:56 Benedict Evans You had to make for iOS and Android.
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 17:22 Ranjan Roy I still haven't downloaded the developer iOS, but I've been meaning to.
- ▶ 28:30 Ranjan Roy Yeah, you, you own distribution, so, like, being the one to actually be the front door to all AI, um, which is interesting, like, as I'm saying this, like, they really could be competing more head-to-head with Apple, uh, going forward, I…
She Built This $340K/Month App in 60 Days
This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month
- ▶ 5:03 Jake Glacer Uh, this was right before iOS 26 came out, and iOS 26 allowed you to connect your app to the native alarm system on iPhone using AlarmKit API, so you could build a real alarm app. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
- ▶ 10:41 Alex Kantrowitz But not the operating system like an iOS, where you would like go open up the your phone and then tap different apps.
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…
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 2:57:19 Mike Krieger In about a month for Instagram, we could have done it probably in a week with the models and but and to build Android, we took everybody off iOS and we all like relearn to code in, you know, code Android OS. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:12:55 Alex Kantrowitz But not the operating system like an iOS, where you would like go open up the your phone and then tap different apps.
Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- ▶ 37:47 Mike Krieger In about a month for Instagram, we could have done it probably in a week with the models and but and to build Android, we took everybody off iOS and we all like relearn to code in, you know, code Android OS. 4 times in the scene
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 46:54 Stephen Balaban And, um, eventually, I kind of left to go continue to work on Lambda full-time, and probably about a year or so later, they got acquired by Apple, and so if you know the feature on your iPhone where you swipe up on an image and you can,…
Securing the AI Frontier with Anar Bayramov of Polygraf | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 24:02 Anar Bayramov I was developing iOS applications just for fun.
WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:39 unnamed speaker March, 26, twenty-twenty-six, so four months ago, three months ago, Mark Gurman reported in Bloomberg that Apple plans to open up Siri to rival AI assistants in iOS 27 update, and so that was the headline. 3 times in the scene
Innovating the GLP-1 Health App Market with Aja Beckett of Shotsy | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 2:11 Aja Beckett Um, and I'm also an iOS engineer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:25 Aja Beckett Yeah, so we are on both the iOS App Store and on the Google Play Store, so iOS and Android. 2 times in the scene
WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 6:58 Alex Kantrowitz To a do-it-all companion, letting users handle tasks across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS through the day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:32 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, if you, I mean, the truth is iOS is a super app, right?
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 14:08 Benedict Evans Windows and iOS did, but they were doing something else.
- ▶ 20:43 Benedict Evans Are they iOS? 2 times in the scene
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 19:48 M.G. Siegler Um, I like their new interface, uh, you know, for the new iOS, uh, model, uh, app at least.
- ▶ 47:05 M.G. Siegler You know, talking about that when it's unfolded, it will look a little bit more like maybe an iPad mini interface, but it won't be exactly iPad OS, but it will be a souped up version of iOS in terms of, you know, what it, what it can… 2 times in the scene
Google Raises $80B, Confidential IPO 101, OpenAI Expands Codex | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 31:14 Jordi Hays By your cheapest friends because the Germinator is sharing that Apple readies iOS, 27 service that will let users split bills for dinners, events by taking a photo of a receipt and assigning items to friends.
New Glenn Explodes, Enterprise AI Enters ROI Era, The Dinosaur Fossil Boom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:50 John Coogan I ran into somebody yesterday who was telling me that they have a, uh, they have a, an agent that looks through their, their iOS contact book and sees if they added any, uh,
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 19:56 Walden Yan If you're building a .NET application that has to run on Windows or like, you know, maybe more commonly, if you want to build iOS or Mac OS.
⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
- ▶ 16:08 Omar Sanseviero So the release cycles in the Android world are, and in the iOS world, are very different.
I Built A $30K/Month in 35 Days
- ▶ 4:16 Pat Walls It doesn't really take that long, even if you're not technical to build an app these days, the longest process, at least for iOS, I've talked to a lot of founders is just getting it approved.
- ▶ 5:10 Pat Walls We have our free iOS bootcamp in just a few days.
- ▶ 17:55 Pat Walls You got to build that iOS app. 3 times in the scene
Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier
- ▶ 56:19 Boris Cherny And of course now, you know, for quad code, we have a desktop app, we have iOS app, we have a Slack app, you know, there's many ways to interact with it, but people were jumping through hoops to use it because it was so useful.
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.
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 47:34 Jason Calacanis As we all know, two years ago, Apple and OpenAI announced ChatGPT would integrate into Siri, iOS, MacOS, but according to Bloomberg, the deal has gone so poorly for OpenAI that they might sue Apple for breach of contract.
I Built a $20K/Month App in 83 Days
OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- ▶ 10:18 Ranjan Roy But every time you scroll your Instagram feed, the recommendation engine that's powering the ad that is being served to you, this was Meta's, like, greatest, I mean, they broke out of the Apple iOS 14.5 prison and kind of showed that they…
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.
- ▶ 19:32 Peter Ludwig So physical machines today are more akin to the state of the phone market before Android and iOS existed.
What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- ▶ 20:20 Evan Spiegel I'm sure you've seen my favorite graph, you know, has been the, the iOS app submission graph, right?
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 59:05 David Baszucki They're playing on a phone, a tablet, a computer, iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Xbox, PlayStation, MetaQuest.
Claude Design: Full Walkthrough. I'm blown away.
- ▶ 11:16 Greg Isenberg So setup file in iOS frame, there's direction A, which is warm and friendly, direction B, which is mascot forward, and direction C, which is a calendar ritual first.
Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- ▶ 20:22 unnamed speaker Apple integrate AI into iOS and weave it into the operating system and, um, how do we use application applications or specific types of things?
The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
- ▶ 13:13 John Collison And you can kind of try and hack it with, like, iOS screen reader, but it doesn't really work with the scrolling.
- ▶ 18:23 John Collison IOS keyboard transcription to type in the field and then, like, say a bunch of stuff and then send it off.
Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 45:12 Max Levchin Like I've never built an iOS app. 4 times in the scene
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 49:00 Balaji Srinivasan Yes, I think they can get disrupted, but I'm not sure that it's like, uh, I don't think it's quite like, oh, everybody on Blackberry is going to die because iOS is taking over.
- ▶ 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 This App Makes $35K/Month
- ▶ 2:29 unnamed speaker So, uh, initially I actually wanted to study something in the creative space, but eventually ended up studying computer science, and in there I taught myself to code iOS apps.
- ▶ 16:16 unnamed speaker Every iOS developer will know the pain of using App Store Connect, so this makes it a bit more hassle-free.
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…
He launched a free product for enterprise customers—then grew to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Bhaskar S... · PMF Show
- ▶ 36:43 Bhaskar S. You know, it could just be happening on an iOS version because 2 times in the scene
I Built a $100K/Month Android App
- ▶ 0:00 Pat Walls Right now, everybody and their grandma is vibe coding iOS apps. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:30 unnamed speaker And 20% of our users and revenue come from iOS.
- ▶ 4:00 Pat Walls A lot of people talk about building on iOS and how those users have more money to spend where Android is not as much the case, but you did it the exact opposite.
- ▶ 4:21 unnamed speaker iOS is way more expensive than Android, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 unnamed speaker And meta ad campaigns, we saw that we couldn't afford to run iOS campaigns because we're bootstrapped and because we're capital constrained. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:58 unnamed speaker Especially on iOS. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:21 unnamed speaker Second thing was obviously the whole like iOS versus Android thing. 6 times in the scene
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 2:05 Benedict Evans That's how Windows and Google and Facebook and Instagram and TikTok and iOS, what we're kind of used to in tech is that software by definition has no capital or very little capital, but it has network effects. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:03 Benedict Evans So it will be like iOS and Android.
Nvidia Restarts China Sales, Vibe Coding Backlash, Peptide Craze | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:31 unnamed speaker Yeah, I wonder if Apple can do anything to create more like a peer, like a mini, like, sort of peer-to-peer experience, because I remember I was, like, learning how to, to, uh, build iOS apps when I was, like, an early teenager, and I was… 2 times in the scene
ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 34:01 Apoorv Mehta A lot of India, a lot of the iOS users.
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:50 John Coogan Apple's five software platforms, M-Dash, iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and TVOS, M-Dash, provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services like the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and…
The $600B Grocery Market Is Obsessed With Speed — FirstClub Is Betting on Quality | Ayyappan
- ▶ 35:47 Ayyappan Rajagopal For me, I want to buy electronics, and for me, Apple sort of an ecosystem is needed, and I'm connected across my devices, so iOS is important, so there I will not sort of compromise, right?
Apple’s MacBook Neo, OpenAI’s Pentagon Agreement, Anthropic’s Investors Silent on DoW | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:59 unnamed speaker I wonder what, uh, like, how exposed the Gemini APIs will be in iOS, because if you, if you fully expose, like, Gemini kit, like, you know, in iOS, just like you can call, like, a weather API or a maps API, like, Uber exists because there… 4 times in the scene
FULL BREAKDOWN: Apple’s 7 New Devices
- ▶ 11:04 unnamed speaker I wonder, I, I, I wonder what, uh, like, how exposed the Gemini APIs will be in iOS, because if you, if you fully expose 4 times in the scene
The end of the network effect
- ▶ 1:27 Benedict Evans Consumer computing has been based on network effects, that we had Windows and Intel, and then we had, with the web, we had Google, and then Facebook, and Amazon, and then the things that Facebook bought, and we had the iOS and Android,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:35 Benedict Evans And Apple's in control, and the thousands of Android apps, and Google's in control, and they set the agenda, and everyone has to use iOS.
Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
Stripe’s 2025 annual letter
- ▶ 4:18 John Collison After years of relative calm, the number of iOS apps released in December 25 jumped by 60% year over year.
His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:00 unnamed speaker Well, that was also because I, I installed the new iOS when it was still in PDF, and it, like, totally destroyed my old phone.
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:37 Boris Cherny Um, it's in the iOS and Android apps, just like in the code tab, it's in Slack, it's in GitHub, there's VS code extensions, there's JetBrains extensions.
Stop Shipping AI Slop. Design with Weavy AI, Claude etc.
- ▶ 39:34 unnamed speaker You can also Figma community search iOS and like every iOS component on the planet shows that you can copy paste.
- ▶ 50:39 unnamed speaker And I feel like in the past six months, like, Claude has gotten, I mean, I guess all the models, but at least from what I use, Claude's gotten so much better at Swift and iOS. 2 times in the scene
AI marketing Masterclass: From beginner to expert in 60 minutes
- ▶ 40:48 Greg Isenberg Uh, Claude on, or Claude code on the phone, iOS?
FULL INTERVIEW: Doug O'Laughlin Thinks Microsoft is OUT of the AI Race
- ▶ 26:36 John Coogan The iOS app store.
#2296 The $7 Million Vibe Coded App
- ▶ 42:14 Josh Mohrer So right now it's, it's Apple search ads and Google ads for, for iOS and Android respectively.