IPad

“You know, I posted about one a few weeks ago where I had my laptop transcribe everything that was happening in the kitchen. And then it would award or detract screen time from my son's iPad, depending on whether he was being good or bad.”

“I haven't touched a computer. Since September, 2010. Everything I do in my life is either done for my phone, my watch, or my iPad.”

“Steve Jobs, you know, he'll invent the iPad and the iPhone, but at home his kids don't use it. Zuckerberg, his kids aren't on social media. It's like, do as they do, not as they say that you should do, right?”

“They sell more iPads, you know, than the laptop run rate in the US.”

“The iPad is a Mac. The Mac is an iPad in terms of the hardware.”

“We built this thing at medical or Facebook at the time called the portal. And it was a video chat device and it was amazing. It was basically center stage before you had it. You could stick it in the corner and video chat with your kids and it would follow you…”

“Everything you described can happen on an iPad, but you're focused, you're saying that it should happen in a, on a mirror, on a wall. Yeah. That's not convincing to me.”

“We were the first to buy the iPads, and digitize everything in the stores, et cetera”

“Like the stock didn't move, you know, it's like, it's not, it is, isn't like a real thing. Like, I don't think it'll affect sales.”

“The iPad was not the PC of the future. It had its place, but it did not in any way replace PCs And it turns out that Apple scaling up the iPhone metaphor was good for tablets, but that never was gonna take over most PC use cases today. In fact, the phone has f…”

“I mean, there's no innovation left, so they're just making the devices, you know, thinner.”

“You know, I think Apple sees the Vision Pro as potentially a long-term replacement for multiple different product categories. I think they see it as something, ah, that has potential to replace the iPad as a consumption device, potential to replace the, ah, th…”

“Madlib actually produced this whole album with him and Freddie Gibbs produced the whole thing on an iPad. He never used a computer.”

“A couple months after I joined, they asked me if I would take on a new project. And at the time they told me that they couldn't tell me what the project was, but that it would require that for the next, you know, year and a half to two years of my life, I woul…”

“Peloton mirror, like all of these ones that are like, you need the hardware to build the future. It's like, actually, no, you don't. You just need an iPad with software on it. It's the same thing.”

“The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts to be able to get the best of both. To make extremely advanced products from a technology point of view, but a…”

“They've kind of done what they did with the watch. And what they did with the iPad, which is make a list of 20 possible things that might work, try all of them, and then later on we'll double down on what works.”

“That didn't get eaten by Google, or Amazon, or Apple. It's a generic iPad in a case, and then there's However many software companies, a bunch of software companies that go and solve, this is what restaurants need.”

“And he also shared that that point of time, he had 6000 notes in his iPad.”

“She did the first iPad app that Steve Jobs demoed when he launched the iPad.”

“It made Apple then come and ask us, could we be one of the first apps to launch on the iPad device when the iPad launched?”

“What Nobu did to design this was he watched the Apple, there was one Apple TV commercial where they showed an iPad, and he would watch that commercial again and again and freeze frame it to kind of zoom in on what is actually possible on this magical new devic…”

“I was way over indexing on the iPhone and the iPad, which were the two most recent ones and what turned out to be two of the most exceptional ones. And not appreciating how difficult it is to do new form factors and not looking at the Newton and a bunch of oth…”

“Instagram has unbundled glossy magazines. More than anything else, it's Instagram that undermined the business model of glossy magazines, and it launched at the same time as the iPad, and they pulled all the money into iPad editions, and that was not, that was…”

“I remember when, at Condé Nast, we were, we went heavy on iPad editions of the magazines spent a lot of money A lot of money on trying to do this and then even try to do Kindle versions of the magazines as well, thinking this is where publishing was going, and…”

“So there is the iPhone and then they have the iPad, which leverages it, and they've sold half a billion of those.”

“Apple now makes the, what's called the SAC, so the system on a chip, basically the CPU inside an iPhone and an iPad. While they design it themselves, it's manufactured for them by TSMC. That's probably 25% better than any other chip on the market.”

“The SAC and the new iPad has I think 11.8 billion transistors. Which, what does that mean? Well, you're going to do the math. The original Mac in 1984 had 68 K, 68,000 transistors, and they sold 370,000 in the first year. So you can work that out, and it turns…”

“Way back in April, 2010 when the iPad first launched, there were about 300,000 pre-orders for the iPad. And it was limited to, like, two iPads per household or customer. And about 10% of those, 30,000 of those were sold to physicians.”

“So we, in 2012, we were giving out iPads away for free. Well, we actually, no, that's not true. We were loaning it out to them. And then eventually we would just basically charge them enough money to cover the hardware costs.”

“I don't want to be that company that looks so dumb, because your product is made irrelevant based on some other company's hardware cycles. And so I said, I think you've got to make the tablet.”

“IPad was already so far ahead in tablets. And then iPad pro took a massive step forward versus the last iPad. Like this is obscene how, how much, like there is no other. 1300 dollar tablet I would even consider. Like that's alone in its category, which is real…”

“He was, in my view, I don't know what's going on inside his head, but just having seen him do that, having at least, you know, enough experience with him and his approach to evaluating work is that he was putting himself in the position of a customer. He had, …”

“The Outlook that got updated today that's on my iPad, like, has connections to Facebook events and Evernote, which aren't things that exist in the Outlook that I would use on my Windows desktop.”

“We actually did a hearing on my subcommittee to force the FDA, the regulator in this case, to tell us, is an iPad a medical device?”

“It's not going to, you know, suddenly reignite sales of iPad growth sales growth, but, you know, it may change what it means to use it a bit.”

“For the iPad numbers and sales, it's not a record low, but sales have been trending flat to down for the last 18 months to two years, and it's a record low ASP, record low average selling price.”

“The iPad share of tablet use is 80 to 90% on any kind of, or to the extent that anybody who has metrics specifically For iPad use, that is to say e-commerce sites or websites or, you know, anybody who's doing video or anyone who's actually selling anything see…”

“And the iPhone is growing quite strongly, and the iPad has been effectively flat for a year.”

“And it feels like where we're settling is it's a one per household or two per household device that gets bought every three or four or five years.”

“There's probably a 180 to two hundred million iPads in use now, Versus about eighty million Macs, according to Apple.”

“We, at one point, we're sending out, I think iPads to people to record, and it turns out that wasn't the problem. The problem was their internet connection that caused the issue, and by sending them a new iPad, we were exacerbating the problem, because then we…”