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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
Anthropic's Generational Run, OpenAI Panics, AI Moats, Meta Loses Major Lawsuits
- ▶ 43:23 David Sacks So I could imagine that even if, let's say, you know, Siri plus plus becomes the dominant way of interacting with your iPhone, you'll still want that Apple user interface.
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 1:14:37 David Sacks I mean, you already had to trust, you know, Google and iPhone and so on because they do have a huge level of access to your data, but the new, let's call them AI connected devices.
Dueling Presidential interviews, SpaceX’s big catch, Robotaxis, Uber buying Expedia?, Nuclear NIMBY
- ▶ 38:17 David Sacks Just because the user books an Uber that you own their attention during that ride, because during that ride, you're really competing with every app on the iPhone, right?
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 35:21 David Sacks The second one I think will be when Apple comes out with iPhone, you know, with LLM powered Siri, assuming they do a decent job with that. 5 times in the scene
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 1:34:11 David Sacks So think about Microsoft completely missed iPhone.
Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
- ▶ 1:23:36 David Sacks The third camera to the iPhone. 4 times in the scene
E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more
- ▶ 5:07 David Sacks Well, your mom should buy an iPhone. 2 times in the scene
E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
- ▶ 1:04:52 David Sacks And, uh, well, like if they could, if they could just make Siri work like the way it was supposed to using an LLM and have it be like snappy, that'd be a major upgrade to the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 1:05:49 David Sacks With the App Store when the iPhone launched, same thing was true when the internet launched.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 15:13 David Sacks I mean, I think this is the most important developer platform since the iPhone and the launch of iOS and the app store. 2 times in the scene
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 45:02 David Sacks Maybe the iPhone or something.
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 1:59 David Sacks This is pre-iPhone, guys.
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 20:05 David Sacks His view is that this was the iPhone moment for blockchain, that, that what Solana has built because it's massively scalable and also very cheap.
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 32:20 David Sacks Um, you know, obviously all of our technology, our iPhones are advanced event weaponry.