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Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
- ▶ 5:51 Alex Kantrowitz I actually want to, uh, press you on this one because one of the studies that was done about this showed that like, for instance, while there are many more apps on the Apple, uh, app store, for instance, the reviews are going down, right? 3 times in the scene
Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- ▶ 22:23 M.G. Siegler And they're blaming some interesting things, one of which is, um, sort of the regular, the regulations around the world that are coming into place to have to change the app store, um, which is fascinating, right? 5 times in the scene
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 52:25 M.G. Siegler What if they make a big announcement around the app store and changing the fee structure, like that would bring down the house, right?
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 48:00 Alex Kantrowitz At the top of the US App Store and reached one million downloads faster than ChatGPT.
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 36:27 Alex Kantrowitz We're number two on the App Store now, and then it moved to number one.
Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
- ▶ 26:58 M.G. Siegler Um, I noted this earlier, um, but, uh, you know, a number of people have seen this, like Claude is now the number one app in the app store, which is wild.
Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
- ▶ 46:43 Alex Kantrowitz It has 931,000 ratings on the App Store.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
- ▶ 11:55 Cristiano Amon So, your phone got better over time, because all of a sudden, a new app became available in the app store, and I think that's how it's going to be with those agents.
AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- ▶ 39:14 M.G. Siegler Like why, why didn't Avis, where was Avis, uh, in the, uh, in the app store and buying Teslas.
Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg
- ▶ 5:31 Sir Nick Clegg I mean, to be fair, there are some states across the US, I think California most recently, and others who I think are finally doing roughly the right thing, which is creating this sort of one and done app store based adjudication on age,…
OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- ▶ 17:39 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, uh, Sora, I don't know what the longevity of Sora is at the top of the App Store charts, but I'll tell you, it has been replaced at the top of the top charts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:46 Ranjan Roy As I have just learned, do you know why Dave's Hot Chicken app is the number one app in the App Store? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:42 Alex Kantrowitz Well, uh, maybe one day we will see Maiko give away chicken sandwiches, and then assert its rightful place at the top of the App Store.
Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
- ▶ 44:26 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Sora is still at the top of the App Store, but I don't know if you can, uh, feel this, but I certainly feel the appeal and the interest fading.
Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
- ▶ 36:29 Alex Kantrowitz So as, as the co-founder of Instagram, I'm sure you've watched with interest as AI-generated images and videos have filled social media feeds and even propelled like Sora, the Sora app, to the number one spot on the App Store.
Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
- ▶ 2:08 Alex Kantrowitz It's the number one app on the App Store. 2 times in the scene
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 10:35 Stephen Morris And maybe they were forced to go down that route because open AI was just sucking all of the oxygen out of the room on the app store.
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 1:21 M.G. Siegler Yeah, so, and obviously that was an allusion to their ending, which they did this cute little Diddy, uh, song made up of their, uh, co-coilating different App Store reviews for different real apps in the App Store with a six out of five,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:58 M.G. Siegler Anything else that Apple is sort of missed on, and that includes, by the way, the Vision Pro, right, like that obviously was not a huge hit, but it didn't matter so much, right, because they still had the iPhone, and they still had some of…
The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
- ▶ 37:20 Alex Kantrowitz Through mechanisms that were not the Apple App Store. 4 times in the scene
Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- ▶ 12:12 Alex Kantrowitz And so you could, you basically are going to become a company that is milking your asset, which is Apple installs with things like app store fees and, uh, Apple TV plus fees and storage fees, and not a company that's going to be selling…
Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
- ▶ 9:00 Alex Kantrowitz So we, we all saw DeepSeq go to the top of the App Store charts. 2 times in the scene
How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 26:48 M.G. Siegler Number two in the app store right now behind deep seek, uh, you know, for a reason people are interested.
Could Your AI Agent Also Be Your Lover? — With Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda
- ▶ 45:04 Eugenia Kuyda And at some point we pulled that app from the app store.
Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
- ▶ 19:57 Casey Newton Um, but you know, I'm somewhat skeptical that they're going to do that because they love their app store monopoly and they would just rather just live off the fat of the app store than like rebuild those relationships with developers. 2 times in the scene
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
- ▶ 37:54 Marc Benioff So if you go to the app store and you download five or six of them and put them on your phone, I put them all into a folder and try different ones and they can draw pictures and they can answer questions and some of them can talk to you.
Spotify Co-President Gustav Söderström on their future with Generative AI
- ▶ 45:20 Gustav Söderström People went to the app store every day.
Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
- ▶ 10:31 Alex Kantrowitz Because of the app store fees and app store rules.
iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
- ▶ 4:57 Ranjan Roy So when I think about the original iPhone launch and then the app store coming, and I remember there was, there was this, uh, do you remember the beer app? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:56 Alex Kantrowitz Apple makes 30% of all app store sales. 2 times in the scene
GitHub CEO Thomas Domke -- The One-Person, Billion-Dollar Startup
- ▶ 1:04 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I'm pretty sure I could implement copies of the technical parts of the most popular apps in the app store, app store 10 times as fast as I could before large language models.
Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
- ▶ 45:54 Alex Kantrowitz Like, I'm just thinking about even the App Store, like, you know, a lot of people's phones have an Uber and a DoorDash and all these other things.
Yubo Wants To Replace Performative Social Media With Real Time Social Discovery
- ▶ 28:32 Sasha Lazimi They can go on the Apple store or on the Play store and they can download the app right away.
Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech
- ▶ 7:54 Marissa Mayer Sunshine Contacts today is the highest rated app in the App Store for contact management, and we think it's the best, obviously, but it does a great job taking your contacts, deduplicating them, updating them, enriching them, so we find…
- ▶ 48:36 Marissa Mayer Uh, or you can go to bit.ly slash shine by sunshine, uh, and download it on the app store and it'll be coming to Android soon.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
- ▶ 1:35 Alex Kantrowitz But your, your company people use, you're ranked above Google Calendar on the App Store.
Palmer Luckey - Future of Virtual Reality, AI War, Autonomous Killing Machines, Militarized Policing
- ▶ 24:12 Palmer Luckey I think you're going to see a similar situation to the early days of the iOS app store, where there's very little content.
Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
- ▶ 55:10 Gary Marcus How much do you want to bet that, you know, this time next year, there are like a hundred or a thousand chatbots on the Apple App Store driven by this reckless bull in a Chinese shop technology.
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Meme Stocks, Bitcoin, SPACs, and Elon Musk
- ▶ 37:39 Alex Kantrowitz Fortnite sued Apple, sorry, Epic sued Apple because Apple was charging this 30% tax on top of the money that people were paying to upgrade on Fortnite and didn't like it, got kicked off the App Store. 6 times in the scene