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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where iPhone comes up on the a16z Podcast, TBPN, Big Technology, 20VC, Another Podcast
Inside Bending Spoons: Finding Talent, Leveraging AI & Driving Operational Excellence | Luca Ferrari
- ▶ 1:33:55 Luca Ferrari Just for, for users on iPhone.
Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates
- ▶ 17:35 Tony Bates I mean, if we go back to sort of the, the game changer of the iPhone, right, was once we went to a touch interface, we haven't seen a new interface in a long time.
Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store
Saronic's 4 Co-Founders on Building a $9.25B Shipbuilder | Part III
- ▶ 58:19 Vibhav Ganesh Um, you know, I think that, you know, one of the reasons why technology is, uh, at the place that it is today for us, whether it's your Oura Ring or your iPhone or, or, or anything,
AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:46 John Coogan Like what percent, like will this be as popular as the iPhone pro has been relative to the iPhone? 4 times in the scene
Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:01 Jordi Hays Like, we're having Mikey from Suno on the show later today, and, uh, Suno has an app that's really full-featured for iPhone. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:25 Jordi Hays Typically they come out and they say, it's lighter, thinner, faster, thinner, faster, fit thinner, faster, 12 times, uh, it's the best iPhone ever. 6 times in the scene
Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 1:12 Alex Kantrowitz Every September, Apple talks about iPhones, and this event has sort of taken a secondary, uh, position compared to WWDC, which is where, if we're being honest, all the action has happened. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:17 Alex Kantrowitz And I think when you look at what Apple is doing, remember, um, you know, up until the 17, the iPhone sales were effectively stagnating, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:46 M.G. Siegler It's my, you know, Android test device, my backup to my iPhone, but it's also, um, just to be able to test out the flip. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:28 Alex Kantrowitz Is there, I mean, with the iPhone, obviously it's both, but do you think there's going to be a, you know, a lead use case for this? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:18 M.G. Siegler And imagine like, obviously there's a lot of people who have both an iPhone and an iPad or, or an Android device in some tablet, um, be it an iPad or whatnot. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:04 Alex Kantrowitz And, um, you know, the first thing I pointed out was like his job number one is just to sell iPhones and it sounds simplistic, but 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:15 Alex Kantrowitz The pro-level iPhones will look roughly the same as prior models other than a light blue and dark red color options. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:39 Alex Kantrowitz After finally deciding around 20 22 that it would enter the touch screen laptop space, Apple is preparing the biggest overhaul to the MacBook Pro in half a decade and a redesigned model that sports a multi-touch screen OLED technology and…
- ▶ 37:03 M.G. Siegler It feels like it's set up nicely to have, you know, this new, this iPhone event, you've got the foldable, you've got the new pro models, um, and then maybe one or one other thing there, but then you've got potentially a home event, right?
- ▶ 40:44 M.G. Siegler And so he's the guy who got a lot of credit for the MacBook Neo, and he's going to get, I think the rightful, a lot of credit for all of these new, you know, the touchscreen MacBook, as we talked about the, the foldable iPhone, he's been… 2 times in the scene
How I Built This $160K/Month Gym App
- ▶ 4:16 unnamed speaker This was a format that works really good for us, where you see the lock screen of your iPhone, uh, with a notification, in this case, your girlfriend, like, leaving you, and below a symmetry notification saying, go to the gym and workout.
I'm Obsessed With Local AI. Here's Why
- ▶ 1:41 Greg Isenberg The hardware could be your MacBook, it could be your Windows laptop, an Android phone, an iPhone, it could be a browser, a Raspberry Pi.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 34:57 Anish Acharya And, you know, I think the thing that's held back consumer so far a little bit, and it may be held back is just strong because if you, if we kind of put this into iPhone terms, we're in iPhone, 2010, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:04 Anish Acharya Maybe the way AI shows up in their society is making like the NHS as good as the iPhone, right?
- ▶ 1:02:57 Anish Acharya It feels like Christmas, 2009, where everybody got their iPhone and want to download new apps.
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 5:45 Cliff Weitzman So the analogy I always give, let's say you bought an iPhone back in 20 11 and it's an iPhone three G. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:16 Cliff Weitzman Yeah, so number one, I want to explain again, it's very different than buying an iPhone or buying a MacBook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:31 Cliff Weitzman Um, side loaded on my iPhone and on my computer, but I figured it's a commoditized product, right?
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
- ▶ 2:26 Justin Johnson We can literally stick like three cameras on tri, three iPhones on tripods, um, use these to take sort of a video of something happening. 2 times in the scene
5 GitHub Repos: Kill AI Slop, Go Viral, Make Money
- ▶ 19:29 Greg Isenberg So phone harness connects an agent like Codex or Cloud Code to a real iPhone or Android. 4 times in the scene
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 5:12 unnamed speaker The same company he thought should control everything from the hardware to the components to the software, the mouse, the keyboard, everything, which is kind of like what the iPhone is today.
- ▶ 19:09 unnamed speaker And then finally, in 1993, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, literally one weekend away from just closing the doors completely, and so Steve Jobs and his hardware chief, John Rubenstein, who was also one of the creators of the…
- ▶ 22:02 unnamed speaker He was working on software in 1986 that by the year 2007 would be the foundation of the iPhone.
- ▶ 35:53 unnamed speaker There would be no iPhone, no iPod.
- ▶ 56:27 unnamed speaker This is the first ever iMention in Apple, the predecessor to the iPod and the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 17:27 Gavin Baker To an iPhone and an iPad and like, you know, get them used to it.
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 1:12:31 Tara Seshan And what I'm reminded of watching that film is like, I have a hundred times the power and tools that he had making that film in my iPhone.
The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
- ▶ 31:23 Brett Berson And this is right after the initial iPhone was launched, that period? 2 times in the scene
Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
- ▶ 1:16:51 Torsten Reil We acquired a games team, did the first games, the iPhone came out, and then we had a string of hit games on iPhone, and then a big breakthrough, um, which, which was in a completely different area. 3 times in the scene
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 29:00 Anish Acharya People want to try new apps, but unlike the 99 cents days, they're willing to pay 200 a month, so it's sort of a renaissance for consumer builders, and
Ex-NVIDIA Engineer: Why AI Is About to Get 1000x Cheaper
- ▶ 1:20:21 Neil Movva I think that iPhones will cut their memory, iPhones are gonna go up in price, and, um, we're just gonna deal with it.
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 8:16 Sam Altman The phase that we're in now reminds me of like smartphones before the iPhone. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor
What Happens When the AI Boom Runs Out of Money · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 2:55 Ben Thompson Apple to move some of their iPhone manufacturing to India, for example.
- ▶ 33:32 Ben Thompson And so they can charge, they have 50% margins on their iPhone.
- ▶ 41:41 Ben Thompson And he's like, the iPhone just launched.
- ▶ 54:01 Ben Thompson Like, a physical product, you ship that iPhone, you ship it once, and it's gotta be, it's gotta be good. 2 times in the scene
He spent $150K on brand before he had a product—closed $1.5M ARR in 1 month. | Endra
- ▶ 9:18 Niklas Lindgren Doing small system install CCTV cameras to iPhone repair shops, but we ended up building very, very large enterprise systems.
Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky
- ▶ 30:49 Paul Kedrosky It still feels to me like we're in the, I don't know, iPhone version four era, where people get all excited about a new release, and then everyone whines because they say, well, this didn't change the world, and it's not, you know, AGI. 2 times in the scene
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
The $2.5B Drone Company Trying to Become the Toyota of Defense
- ▶ 11:27 Soren Monroe-Anderson And especially until drones started becoming such an important part of the battlefield and a modern arsenal, um, because what goes into one of these is it looks much more similar to, uh, you know, what goes into your laptop, your iPhone,…
Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- ▶ 8:47 Alex Kantrowitz Apple shares fell after a disappointing forecast showed that the iPhone maker was struggling to secure enough components as the AI-driven data center boom strains global supply chains. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:38 Alex Kantrowitz So last week with Reid Albergati, I said if you want to get a new iPhone, the 17 is probably the best one to get because the 18 is going to be much more expensive. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:05 Alex Kantrowitz Maybe instead of, you know, you buying the iPhone at a higher price tag, you just subscribe to it monthly. 10 times in the scene
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 20:31 Jason Calacanis Yeah, and it's just Android versus iPhone all over again.
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 1:00:41 Nikesh Arora Every consumer app that was ever put from the iPhone
How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- ▶ 44:45 unnamed speaker Apple assembles the iPhone, somebody makes this chip, somebody makes the camera, somebody makes this, somebody makes that, and I just make sure the product is amazing,
The Nuclear Renaissance - Radiant | a16z American Dynamism
- ▶ 7:08 unnamed speaker When you're building a commercial product, you have to have the same desire to lower customer friction as Apple did with the iPhone.
Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
- ▶ 58:13 Reed Albergotti Well, you know, PSA, like, you can just buy a super cheap phone instead of an expensive iPhone, download ChatGPT, you know, and talk to your, talk to your Codex agent and have it recreate all of your iPhone apps and, you know, just have it… 5 times in the scene
How to Speak Better Than 99% of People (5 Frameworks)
- ▶ 7:16 Codie Sanchez You know, Steve Jobs in this video, he's introducing the iPhone, and he goes like this. 2 times in the scene
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 35:27 Micky Malka The small iPhone.
From $0 to $5M Per Month: How Dhar Mann Broke YouTube
Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 14:32 Michael Hurlston The iPhone with the face ID,
Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:59 Blake Scholl And the first supersonic air-to-air livestream, filmed on an iPhone, streamed via Starlink, and of course, most importantly, legalizing supersonic flight in the U.S.
Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:02 unnamed speaker And, and it's different, because when you go back to the iPhone, and Steve Jobs being mad at Eric Schmidt about Android, that was a tense moment that happened, A, behind closed scenes, completely. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:41 unnamed speaker And use an iPhone, and Apple will have a huge incentive to, to defend against any potential open source attacks, and so they will be spending the money.
Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:25 Sam Altman There was then another big version when the iPhone app store launched.
What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
- ▶ 17:40 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, you know, AI might not be like the next, I don't know, iPhone, or the next internet, uh, but it will be this sort of helpful, um, new mode of computing, and we will, actually this might make sense, and we will just keep investing in it…
Sweetwater: Chuck Surack. How a Customer Service Strategy Built a Billion Dollar Online Pro Audio and Music Company.
Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents
- ▶ 6:52 Ryan Carson So that's kind of my, when I'm at my desk, uh, my setup, um, and what I do when I'm here, but the truth is I do a lot of work, you know, from this, my iPhone.
Advice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox
AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:24 Jordi Hays The fact that Android and iPhone like battle each other out is not, is much better than like, there's just one and it's getting worse and it's like, there's nothing that you can do to lose.
David Friedberg Explains America's Economic Crisis in 60 Minutes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 51:37 David Friedberg And this idea that, like, people are despondent because they don't know how to use AI today is the equivalent of saying people are despondent when the iPhone came out in 2007, and they would never learn how to use, like, the internet.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 0:41 Qasar Younis Our vision for that is a high school kid that can make iPhone apps should be able to make autonomous systems.
- ▶ 37:34 Qasar Younis There was a huge, like, and then it, it comes and we, by, by oh seven from the iPhone launch, like it's like four years when you get Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat.
- ▶ 50:26 Qasar Younis Our, uh, you know, vision for that is, and the delivery robot is a great example, is like a high school kid or a middle schooler, they can make iPhone apps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:51 Qasar Younis I mean, I, I, I, you guys remember like the early iPhone apps that hits were like the beer one or the fart app.
Unlocking Spatial Intelligence with Bill Lakeland of Spexi | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 2:13 Bill Lakeland Cause then you could plug it into like, you know, iPhone phones and different sensor systems and software platforms to unlock new capabilities.
Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 38:26 Jason Calacanis Tang Tan, Apple's former VP of iPhone design, is OpenAI's chief hardware officer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:33 Jason Calacanis It's just like the iPhone. 3 times in the scene
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 3:48 Jason Calacanis You probably would have made chips for iPhone, which Intel passed on.
How to Use AI to Make Money, Grow Your Business, and Be More Productive | Geoff Woods
- ▶ 42:13 Geoff Woods And this thing would be so damn good, it would put the release of the iPhone to shape.
Token pricing
- ▶ 7:48 Benedict Evans Um, and then there's a more relevant reason why it's interesting, which is that as smartphones took off, the networks collapsed because people bought iPhones and then the iPhones got three G and then people started watching YouTube and… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:00 Benedict Evans And, you know, Apple had to make the iPhone before the iPhone and make a network, make an app store and get people to do it before that had a network effect. 2 times in the scene
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 10:24 Navneet Dalal When they did the iPhones, again, like, oh, people are using Nokia phones, Blackberries, et cetera.
- ▶ 29:21 Mehul Nariyawala That was Tony Fidel, Nest, co-founder's first company, and they massively failed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 Mehul Nariyawala We were getting, uh, internet and iPhone cameras were solving a bunch of problems, but it wasn't obvious to you.
Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
- ▶ 0:38 John Coogan The iPhone maker said in a suit Friday that OpenAI encouraged Apple employees to share information, components, drawings, and other materials related to upcoming products. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:47 unnamed speaker Even as they had figured out how to earn services revenue from every iPhone user basically forever. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 17:05 Alex Kantrowitz So you have your AGI, and it's in, ah, Codex, and it's, or the new ChatGPT app, and it's in Anthropix app, and Meta's figured it out some way, and Apple has it in the iPhone for whatever reason.
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 29:09 Chamath Palihapitiya I think it's more that when the iPhone was a novelty, everybody would keep upgrading because you expected that the new price was worth it.
GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:01 John Coogan Uh, AI videos, either just using their iPhone, so they'll just have, like, you're playing an actor who's playing, like, an old character, and then you're reading the lines, you're giving the delivery, and then that is, that is used as the…
- ▶ 16:06 John Coogan So if I open up the Amazon app on my iPhone and I buy a t-shirt,
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 0:04 David Senra Anyone who's held an iPhone or a MacBook has felt the result of Steve Jobs' obsession with visual and experiential perfection.
- ▶ 52:19 David Senra Instead, Jobs introduced the iPod in 2001, the iPhone in 2007, the iPad in 2010, before he had to resign in 2011 because of poor health.
"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 9:50 Cyan Banister And if you think about Apple, we all use the iPhone.
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