Phone

“Agents are moving from answering questions. They're operating tools and phones is one of the biggest tool services in the world.”

“You know, I do almost 50%, probably more of my work from my phone.”

“Oh, it certainly wouldn't alleviate it. I think it will make some consumer applications much better. But, I mean, the reality is you need, you know, petaflops, exaflops of compute, certainly for training, and you want a whole bunch of compute quickly. At infer…”

“Will you have a language model optimized hardware rolling out in, in our phones, in our computers? Yes.”

“The phone is never going away, just like laptops didn't go away when the phones came, and all of our other technology built on each other, right?”

“And I think phones have continued that trend of pulling people into the screen rather than bringing people into the world, helping people share experiences together with their friends.”

“The average person checks their phone 205 times a day.”

“Studies have found 10% of the time you check your phone, is it because of some kind of ping, ding, or ring? 90% of the time, it's because of an internal trigger.”

“If you look at the nation states and some of the creative ways they can actually get into a phone, as an example, if they want to get in bad enough, they're going to get in.”

“Negotiating is 1000 times easier when you're on the phone with someone And they can feel kind of your presence and your voice.”

“I think these things are kind of destroying the world and what we're good at is making software so you can find some way to make software that helped people use Their phones less often, then that would be a big winner, but I haven't come up with anything good.”

“Yes. Every phone and computer was built pre-AI. The, All the hardware we have today in the world needs to be completely rebuilt from scratch.”

“We're basically, every time we pick up our phones in front of our kids, we're like training them to think that our phone is more interesting than they are.”

“Like I think phone, like in five years, I would question whether phone is the dominant consumer use case.”

“It's cheaper to make a large screen TV now than it is to make a phone.”

“90% of health care is going to be delivered probably from your phone and in your home.”

“I do think that the phone will be the driving compute for whatever the glasses are. I don't think that the compute is going to be happening on the glasses.”

“AI is going to be like water. You're going to get free unlimited AI processing on your CPU. On your phone within three to four years. There's no doubt it's going to free”

“No one's going to replace phones anytime soon, or laptops for that matter.”

“We think that the phone's just so dominant and it will be until we have the next generation, which is not going to be for five, you know, maybe some Orion type glasses that are cheap enough and like light enough, like that's going to take a long time before wi…”

“In terms of falling asleep, I don't think it's really about whether you look at your phone or not, believe it or not. I think it's about what you're doing on your phone. If you're doing anything that is cognitively stressful or getting your mind to spin, then …”

“And then you look at Apple and their strategy, which the execution hasn't been great, but the idea that all of these things will just surface as features popping up all over my phone and they're not going to cost anything. My data is not going to go anywhere. …”

“There is scientific evidence that if I have my phone out on the table, even face down while we're having a conversation, you and I experience less feelings of connection after that interaction than if I don't have my phone out in front of us.”

“Five years from now, you will, Sam.”

“That is not something that Apple wants some other developer to be able to do, because that would disintermediate their position, their privileged position on the phone.”

“The market's super efficient. And so, yep, there's a lot of people on the phone, but it's also the hardest place to get noticed or stand out. It's the hardest place to do new things. Cause there's nothing new that you can do there. It's all been done before. P…”

“And never send your child to a camp that allows kids to keep phones on them.”

“When you're on a phone, you tend to over enunciate your words a little bit. Because you almost subconsciously realize that the other person can't see your expressions, you put more emotion in your voice. We do this automatically without even thinking about it.”

“It's interesting because all the data show that when they get the phone, it makes them more lonely. It makes them more isolated.”

“They don't have the mental capacity to carry a phone into their room and not go to bed.”

“So an eight billion parameter model is small enough to sort of run, On phones or even laptops at the higher end of those.”

“You're not going to wear a headset, no matter how light and cheap it is, all day outdoors. I would not have worn it walking here, even if it weighed a hundred grams and had completely perfect pass-through. Therefore, it can't replace your phone. Therefore, we …”

“There's a general sentiment that the form factor that we interact with on a daily basis, i.e. Phones, is great, but maybe it isn't the thing that will kind of be the container for the next step in software.”

“Now, if you know video games, and I know video games, and if you know phones, and I know phones, the idea that your kid is going to be able to stop themselves at a certain time is, is just probably setting everyone up for failure. It's just, you get sucked in,…”

“As technology continues to improve, I would not at all be surprised to see a future generation of this product that not only is mass market, but is delivering society a better new version of phones, computers, TVs, and gaming consoles in a single experience.”

“There's a lot of evidence coming out of University of Chicago and probably other places, but that's the article I've read it, that we, there's more noise than signal in facial expressions and body language, especially if somebody is just a little Square on a c…”

“The thing that you can do in the metaverse that is different from what you can do on a phone is like doing stuff where you're physically there together and Participating in things together, and we could play games like this.”

“I suspect a lot of inference will get done on the edge. If you think about the insane amount of compute that's walking around in our pockets that is not fully leveraged right now, there's gonna be a lot of machine learning done on phones that are gonna, like, …”

“We have a line of sight to an AI tutor on every phone. We have a line of sight to a medical assistant on every phone.”

“At least to get something with today's capabilities, I think it'll be you know, it'll be very affordable and you might just be able to run it locally on, you know, your phone or something.”

“Being able to generate software by talking to your phone It's going to be a very clear thing that will happen. At minimum, being able to like instruct your AIs while you're on the go and review their work, that's obviously going to happen.”

“95% of people right now are plugging in with an arm's reach of themselves.”

“Well, it was some kind of spyware developed by some From out in the world that could basically access all the information in your phone, and they could also, assuming they would have your phone in hand, they could basically access all information by breaking a…”

“She finds things like we smile 30% less when we have our phone near us, even if you're not using your phone, right?”

“And whenever I heard that story a couple of years ago, I was like, that's how I'm gonna treat my phone. It is there for me. And so I don't feel guilty about clicking ignore, deny, or don't re not replying. It is this thing, this phone, it exists for my conveni…”

“About 20 to 25% of the total material cost of the phone is the RF front end, and it's that RF front end that has all of those components in it.”

“One of the habits that I've been trying to follow recently is I take my phone and I leave it in another room until lunch each day. Now, I can't do it all the time, but I can do it most of the days, 95% of the days”

“But you, but for glasses, clearly what they're doing is they're building that building block in the glass, in the phone, so that it's ready when they have the glasses.”

“One thing that I recommend is don't give your child a phone until at least They're five years old or older, because what's happening is when they're zero to five, and you're training them, that whenever they're bored, they're going to be able to use an electro…”

“That's why I don't use my phone when I'm around my kids anymore. Because I realized at some point, maybe three or four years ago, that, like, I was just trying to, like, sneak in an email here or there, you know, trying to manage things, and then I just realiz…”

“I give Leslie, my wife, my phone on Friday night, and I say, do not give this back to me until Monday, and don't tell me where you put it.”

“In five years, I can guarantee you that the phone will still not understand it's in the building because of a new GPS signal that can now penetrate walls. It will not physically happen.”

“Most everybody is going to just use about seven apps on their phone. And the same holds for PCs.”

“Xiaomi, up until two or three years ago, sold their phones on Tuesday mornings. Like, they had a, once the, you couldn't go on the website and buy Xiaomi phones. You could only buy them, like, Tuesday mornings, and so it was like a thing. Everyone would be at …”

“Looking forward, I think we'll even see probably like DNA ID. I mean, sensors are getting smaller and smaller all the time. You know, you can detect so many different factors, like humans have, you know, unique chemical fingerprints even. So you could have som…”

“There's going to be another platform after that. And I think that's going to be a virtual reality and augmented reality.”