IOS

“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. So you could just say like, I'm using this device now, and it will take your phone number and put it over.”

“If Android represents all open source models, open weights, et cetera, iOS represents frontier labs. I feel like we're going to head down a path with a similar breakdown in the U S and globally. We're like three quarters of the world are going to choose open s…”

“We had a redesign of feed that went to the video viewer. That was a test to four percent of users on iOS. It was a not, it was not going to roll out.”

“Up until this point there were a lot of other alarm apps out there, but they were sort of gimmicky and not reliable because they used different like app sounds and workarounds to make the quote unquote alarm.”

“One of the early stories from Robinhood I love is that the deposit amounts from people with iOS were twice the ones from people with Android. And their assumption was just, oh, like people with iPhone just have more money. So they're depositing more money. And…”

“Like, it's really important to still bring on folks with those expertise, but we probably don't need like as large because people are flexing.”

“We are we're one of the few, or maybe the only company in the world to have KIC access to every secondary iOS and Android device in the world.”

“Chip companies didn't capture the value. ISPs didn't capture the value. Mobile network operators didn't capture the value. Windows and iOS did, but they were doing something else.”

“There's no difference between an app that's built on Linux or an app that's built on iOS. Like these are just apps.”

“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.”

“So physical machines today are more akin to the state of the phone market before Android and iOS existed.”

“They have their walled garden. The walls are staying up. They're not letting Claude Cowork go around your iOS installation and hook into all your different local APIs. That's the domain of Apple intelligence.”

“Like, if you look at Android, Gemini is at, like, 50% of ChatGPT's scale on mobile, whereas on iOS it's, like, 17%.”

“IOS has done some work there, but it was underwhelming so far.”

“I switched to daily driving Gemini on iOS as the main app that I go to for all the different knowledge retrieval requests.”

“It's the iPhone is a great example of there are multiple, I think there's. 20 plus small foundational models in the latest release of iOS that are running very specific tasks now, and they've been quantized to just do that one thing.”

“IOS removed a lot of gadgets, and AWS removed a lot of gadgets. They just left shifted all that and said, look, you don't have to worry about going to 10 different vendors to spin up an app.”

“So what we built actually was a feature that exists today on iOS which is called inactive tabs. So inactive tabs is that ability where you can actually this happened automatically where all tabs longer than 21 day that was not, that should actually, or opened …”

“I generally think like what Dave said, that it's much more likely this is just like the iOS displacement over again. And like the next generation of comp gets way more reasonable again.”

“I'm a huge believer in OpenAI would be massive, personally, because I think it's full stack. You have B to C. It's a very, very powerful combination. And it will be both now, right? It will be iOS plus Amazon Web Services. So everybody will depend on that plat…”

“It is very cool in terms of just, you can now vibe code an iOS app that has some sort of AI functionality. It's not gonna be incredible. It's not gonna be frontier. But you can get something that's served into the store that only uses Apple's APIs and creates …”

“I don't think that that's necessarily the case right now for exactly the reasons that we're talking about, because I don't think that there's exactly the killer app that, that makes Android that much better than iOS right now.”

“In the future, you can just speak what app you want into the phone and that app shows up. So then that gives a smaller company like us the ability to compete with iOS, which has, I don't know, a 1,000,002 million apps already, but we can empower every normal p…”

“You cannot do stuff that's more native, like alarms and volume and brightness you know, people want and everything system at the end of the day.”

“Yeah, it was all consumer at the time. Honestly, it was mostly Mac. It was like Mac and iOS. It was very, very little. I think they had a reader for Android and something similar for Windows, but it was really very much of an Apple focused company.”

“Like our future is basically turning Mac OS and we also now expanding the windows and iOS and really like a AI native operating system.”

“I think they do this anytime a new phone launches because they just want you to get rid of your phone and update it no matter what, so you can fix all the bugs.”

“And so it just is going to take five to 10 years. And by that time, Apple will be like, everyone will have moved on from this and like the whole OS will probably be much different anyways.”

“The next year, in 2008, when the iPhone SDK was launching and people were building apps, Mark and Facebook actually go to Apple and meet with Steve, and they pitch Steve on exactly what you were just talking about, Ben. Like, hey, how about you let us bring ou…”

“What's cool about this is since we're using iOS, you can actually save things to the files, like you have your files thing on your phone, and so you can save things locally, so you don't have to set up Firebase, which takes forever and leads to a lot of errors…”

“I honestly think this might actually be a good place for people to start instead of starting with a web app except for V zero. Like if you want to just do front end design, if you want to actually have a database, I think it's a really good place to start.”

“The contact permission screen, you know, you're, you average about 65% approval rate across all apps. Higher, it's higher for teens, lower for adults”

“One of the things that was a crucial decision that we made was we built this platform on Android versus iOS, and it was not, in hindsight, it's like, feels like a strategic decision, but in reality, it was simply because we thought Android was an easier platfo…”

“I was sitting there going, wow, this is the new devil in the defaults for how a billion people are going to use AI every single day. This thing is recommending what I should say in response to my friend that I'm text messaging.”

“In 20, 1320, 14 it's after I left, but like Reddit bought one of the major iOS apps called Alien Blue. And then kind of like, you know, relied on that as the iOS solution for a while. With no equivalent solution for Android.”

“If the emerging markets continue to grow GDP per capita and iOS continues to be the superior product, you'll see Apple able to steal into more share over time.”

“Android is kind of dying slash not working and iOS is just completely dominating.”

“TechCrunch estimates that this app has been downloaded Eleven million times already across iOS and Android, and generated over twenty-two million dollars in revenue since August, twenty-twenty-two.”

“When Siri can be as conversational as ChatGPT and can take actions on the device, I actually think it'll change like the entire interaction model across desktop and iOS as well in huge ways.”

“I think this is the most important developer platform since the iPhone and the launch of iOS and the app store. And I would argue maybe ever. In our industry, certainly since the beginning of the internet.”

“TikTok can't read your email. Like on iOS, it cannot. It just can't. A third party app cannot see your email. It's sitting in a sandbox.”

“One is you need you need an app platform that allows apps to be built that are of equal quality to the core features of the platform. That is absolutely critical. And like, look at iOS. IOS is like a great example of this. Like when I open up a first party app…”

“When you look subsequently at how much money they've spent in AR and VR, spending half a quarters of that cash could have given them the chance to disrupt Android and iOS in 2010 and 11, which in hindsight is obviously a no brainer bet, right?”

“So the already existing tools, which are there in the market that either working for Android, they are all working for iOS, no such platform, which can solve all the problems at one single place.”

“The features that they put out are revolutionary, and they end up being industry leaders in a lot of areas, and it's very minor things. They were the first ones to put the bottom bar on iOS, and everybody followed suit”

“If you look at the mobile app landscape in the last six or seven years, we're all starting to copy windows operating system, their phone and the way they organize the horizontal scrolls. So a lot of things that they introduced to the app world, because they ca…”

“We waited until 2018 when QR code scanning became natively unlocked on iOS devices and on Android. And that's when we said, hey, okay, we need to go and see what we can do in this market.”

“So we're the first native iOS design tool for teams to design, prototype, and share directly on their device.”

“We've got 11,000 app installs already of the product on iOS.”

“All the primary design tools don't support native video. They don't support native modals or live maps or haptics or input text fields.”

“And we saw this really clearly, really clear for the first time this summer when Apple makes all these privacy changes in iOS and great chunks of revenue start shifting off other companies, A, either to Off the platform altogether or be actually onto Apple and…”

“For example, this Apple, you know, ad revenue business, I think is climbing by billions of dollars while Facebook's core business is being affected by the cookie tracking policy change on Apple iOS.”

“We own a product called VPN Super, which is pretty consistently like a top 10 productivity app on iOS. It was built by a four person team in Singapore. This thing gets 200,000 downloads a day.”

“So looking at my stats Apple and Apple mail and iOS are about 45%.”

“Chrome on iOS has to use Apple's rendering engine. It can't use their own rendering engine.”

“I was working on a project to build a Facebook phone, kind of like a competitor to Android and iOS, but instead of really just building the product, I had kind of wrapped that whole project up in my own ego, and when I got pushback from Zuck, About the capital…”

“Well, your main computer is going to be running a sandboxed operating system without Live file system access, probably without running very much native code, and it will be running Chrome, or it will be running iOS, or it will be running something similar, and…”

“All you need to do is get around these set of mitigations, and you now can own any Apple device in the world.”

“The nature of Android also creates a scenario where there's so many different flavors of Android, it makes it much more difficult to create a mass attack. Whereas on iOS, because it's the same version of the operating system across the board on every device, i…”

“The odds of being hit in a mass attack are potentially lower, but if somebody is targeting you, I would say that the odds of, you know, you, them being successful against you are higher on Android for sure.”