App Store (Apple), every mention
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Token pricing
- ▶ 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.
Tiktok, Apple and Temu
- ▶ 33:42 Benedict Evans We didn't even mention that Apple kicked Epic off the app store for about two days and then changed their mind. 2 times in the scene
AI and Everything Else
- ▶ 30:59 Benedict Evans I don't, you know, there's, we're kind of at that very early stage where, you know, go back and think about what it was like holding an iPhone in 2008 with the App Store, and there was no Uber, there was no Instagram, there was no Tinder,… 2 times in the scene
Vision Pro, two weeks on
- ▶ 34:33 Benedict Evans And if you were the first game on the app store, you made a lot of money. 2 times in the scene
The FTC's antitrust thesis
- ▶ 26:03 Benedict Evans Cause they can't really do that with the app store or they'd have done it.
Netflix isn't a tech company
- ▶ 27:08 Benedict Evans So, you know, my sentiment of opening the app store and thinking,
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 14:32 Benedict Evans But it has an app store that has millions of apps and billions of downloads.
Apple's metronome
- ▶ 7:56 Benedict Evans Um, the thing that's more interesting that's happened in the last month is the app store stuff.
- ▶ 17:17 Benedict Evans They did fifteen billion dollars in App Store commission. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:52 Benedict Evans You know, the original iPhone, you know, there was no app store.
Trying to understand Ad Tech
- ▶ 11:57 Benedict Evans An IDFA is basically a tool on the iPhone that says you tapped on an ad for an app, you went to the app store, you installed it, you opened the app, you bought something, 2 times in the scene
App stores: arguing like it's 2009
- ▶ 1:02 Benedict Evans It then adds the app store in 2008. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:30 Benedict Evans We're not saying anything about Apple and the App Store that we were not saying in 2011.