iPhone

also referred to as: iphones

includes iPhone X, iPhone 4

5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2022 by Tyler Cowen · said 32 times in 15 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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brought up most by Joe Lonsdale (10), Balaji Srinivasan (5), Tony Fadell (3), Zach Latta (2), Max Meyer (2), Dmitri Alperovitch (2), Tyler Cowen (1), Sri Ganesan (1)

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Everything said about iPhone, oldest first

Feb 16, 2022 neutral
Insight
Cowen: Globalization Inherently Generates Higher Income Inequality
“There's gonna be a lot of inequality the more global is the world, right? Because you're selling iPhones, you know, everywhere, not just to the, your local city. So that's a fact. It's not going away.”
Tyler Cowen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 35:32 Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale
May 20, 2022 negative
Opinion
The first-generation Apple iPhone functioned terribly as an actual telephone
“The iPhone was the greatest thing except for a phone, right? Cause the phone really sucked. Cause we were learning, right? By figuring out what to do with how to make good cameras even.”
Tony Fadell May 20, 2022 ▶ 25:22 Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
May 20, 2022 positive
Opinion
General Magic attempted to build the iPhone 15 years too early
“I think what happened was in general magic was, you know, trying to make, you know, when you look back on it, the iPhone, 15 years too early.”
Tony Fadell May 20, 2022 ▶ 1:38 Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 30, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lonsdale: Decoupling from China would push iPhone costs to thousands for years
“Like an iPhone would cost right now a few thousand dollars probably for the next three, four or five years, you know, each, if we didn't have China for now, and then eventually we could get cost down a lot more, but there's going to be like a huge disruption i…”
Joe Lonsdale Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 35:45 Ep 72: Illegal Chinese Bio Labs & Secret Police Inside America! Congressman Mike Gallagher · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 22, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Only three of the 150 chips in an iPhone are advanced nodes
“Even if you look at your iPhone, there's about 150, 160 chips in that iPhone. Only three of them are advanced. Your processor, your memory, and the baseband from Qualcomm. That talks to the cell tower. Everything else, GPS, screen, power management, battery, a…”
Dmitri Alperovitch Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 48:59 He Predicted Putin's Invasion. Now He Predicts When China Will Invade Taiwan. · Joe Lonsdale
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