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Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 13:59 M.G. Siegler Um, but then when you have some time to sort of sit back and lean back experience, which again, like from the, from the original introduction of the iPad with Steve jobs sitting on that leather chair, right?
- ▶ 27:10 M.G. Siegler You brought up the previous one, Arthur Levinson has been in place for a long, long time since I think the, the Steve jobs days and his compensation was, you know, more normal looking package for, for that type of role, but he wasn't day…
- ▶ 43:13 Alex Kantrowitz It was, Steve did the job, he let Tim cook, now it's John's turn, and it's, God, that's so cringy, but just stuck in my head.
Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- ▶ 12:46 M.G. Siegler He was COO of Apple before he became CEO under, under jobs, obviously under Steve jobs, obviously.
- ▶ 25:59 M.G. Siegler Um, I think the better framing of it would be.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 43:59 M.G. Siegler Um, and this dates before a cook to the jobs days when he felt like Apple was getting, you know, screwed over by Adobe and whatnot.
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 24:53 Alex Kantrowitz While it was, that also came from Steve Jobs, and so they've remained this refined jobs idea culture, even though they don't have jobs anymore, and they are sort of so 2 times in the scene
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 10:36 M.G. Siegler This dates to the jobs days and even, uh, you know, very early iterations of Apple when, uh,
- ▶ 25:15 M.G. Siegler But remember there was a time, I guess under the, in the Steve jobs days,
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 13:11 Alex Kantrowitz You know, they can sort of become the company that, like, two, two generations after Jobs kind of got stuck under the weight of its own body and, and stalled.
Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 1:02 Alex Kantrowitz Um, you could have seen Tim Cook as an extension of Steve Jobs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:05 Alex Kantrowitz It, it sort of captures what Cook has been so good about, good at, and what has sort of been surprising about his ability post-Jobs is that he carried the Apple narrative, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:03 Joanna Stern Like, far more than Jobs was, you know, leaning probably towards ever thinking about Wall Street and thinking about the earnings and all of that, but also he's kept up with some really great products.
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 50:08 M.G. Siegler You know, I, I hate to invoke the, the idea of buying next and bringing Steve jobs on, which was a much smaller deal relative to what this would be, of course, but it's still, that was a game change deal that really changed the DNA of the…
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 39:15 Alex Kantrowitz He has a chance to be sort of the Steve Jobs of AI, and maybe he's already there, but you know, he, he can be the visionary that explains and makes the, like we were saying last week, someone's got to make a case for this technology and do… 2 times in the scene
The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
- ▶ 38:35 Stephen Morris Um, and the house, the house I went to is next door to, um, Steve, um, Steve Jobs's, uh, wife, uh, and she hosts an absolutely enormous Halloween party there.
Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
- ▶ 24:00 Bret Taylor Then the internet was developed and connected those PCs, and then thanks to Steve Jobs, and, and then obviously Android's, uh, evolution of that technology, we have more smartphones than people now, and they're all connected to the…
- ▶ 53:15 Bret Taylor Uh, I was, didn't have the good fortune of really knowing Steve Jobs, but they always talked about the reality distortion field and why so many great engineers went and did great things like creating the Macintosh or creating the iPod, and…
AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Does AI need its own Steve Jobs? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32 Alex Kantrowitz Basically the piece argues that AI needs its own Steve Jobs. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, no, as, so that, I think this is an interesting mystery to me, and it's something that I'm gonna, you know, keep thinking about and maybe, uh, you know, continue to try to, uh, learn more about, but, um, you know, as we wrap up this…
- ▶ 22:05 M.G. Siegler Um, you could say jobs is like that though too, right? 3 times in the scene
CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
- ▶ 8:37 Jim Cramer For the same reason that people don't like Apple, because Jobs and, and Bezos, and I'm not buying that at all.
Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
- ▶ 8:18 M.G. Siegler Tim Cook was COO before, uh, under Steve jobs, and then he stepped in there.
- ▶ 12:42 Alex Kantrowitz The other side of it is I think as a CEO, you're also judged by how you leave the place by, by the, you know, Steve jobs, for instance, to continue on the apple front left, uh, Tim cook with a roadmap really, and cook crushed it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:31 M.G. Siegler It started out as a way too expensive sort of, yeah, cute, uh, cool demo with, with Steve jobs, pulling it out of the envelope and, and all of that.
Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
- ▶ 51:50 Alex Kantrowitz Doug Evans, the company's founder, would compare himself with Steve Jobs in his pursuit of juicing perfection. 3 times in the scene
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 56:00 Alex Kantrowitz I've heard from multiple people, uh, around him that he thinks he's Steve Jobs. 2 times in the scene
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 4:30 Amjad Masad One day they, they invite this, uh, up and coming entrepreneur called Steve Jobs. 4 times in the scene
Tom Lee: Decoding the AI Trade, Bitcoin Predictions & What an AI Black Swan Event Might Look Like
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 27:33 M.G. Siegler Whereas I didn't get it even with Steve jobs, brilliant presentation.
- ▶ 44:22 Alex Kantrowitz Steve Jobs would have taken you out back and shot your kneecaps for pitching something with this contrast ratio.
Anthony Scaramucci: Elon Musk’s Trump Exit, Tim Cook’s Tariff Problem
- ▶ 50:19 Anthony Scaramucci I would also say to Tim Cook, I would say you've done a really good job, a phenomenal job, post Steve Jobs, and you had rules.
OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- ▶ 12:42 Alex Kantrowitz But it's interesting that this is coming again from Johnny Ive, effectively the guy that built the iPhone was Steve Jobs.
- ▶ 18:59 Alex Kantrowitz But wait, wait, there's a second part of this, which is that maybe him, like it, you know, Johnny might need a Steve, and I'm not saying Sam Altman is Steve Jobs, but when you pair a great designer with a visionary tech leader, 3 times in the scene
Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- ▶ 4:23 Reed Albergotti Um, and it really, I think used that marketing power, that goodwill that it's had, you know, since the days of Steve jobs here,
- ▶ 8:27 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, talking about, uh, Jobs and his, uh, intolerance for failures. 4 times in the scene
How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
- ▶ 16:23 Alex Kantrowitz And one of my favorite tech demo moments is Steve Jobs just losing his shit on stage because all the reporters are
The Future of AI and Entrepreneurship, According Two Leading Innovators
- ▶ 13:23 Norman Winarski Apple purchased Siri, uh, Steve Jobs, and they, in 2010, they took Siri as it was and reinvented it for the Apple purposes, so that would access Apple Calendar, Apple Mail,
Spotify Co-President Gustav Söderström on their future with Generative AI
- ▶ 3:48 Gustav Söderström So, so for, for him, the digital audio workstation was, as Steve Jobs would say, a bicycle for the mind.
iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
- ▶ 12:27 Alex Kantrowitz On threads yesterday, he posted the obvious truth is that we all, including Apple, miss Steve Jobs.
Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
- ▶ 16:18 Peter Diamandis And, you know, this year at abundance three 60, um, I showed a video of Steve jobs years ago, uh, saying, you know, I'm so jealous that, uh, Alexander the great had Aristotle at his PR as his personal tutor.
- ▶ 54:39 Peter Diamandis And, you know, if you asked what made the greatest leaders on this planet, you know, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Elon, Steve Jobs, was it their wealth?
Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- ▶ 8:40 Kara Swisher It's as if Steve Jobs invented the iMac and then stopped.
- ▶ 21:20 Kara Swisher Tim Cook has managed to, to get over that, like, because the stock is so hot, you know, it's, it goes up and down, but it's about 10 X from when Steve Jobs ran it, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:00 Kara Swisher And it didn't happen under jobs either, by the way. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:32 Kara Swisher But like a lot, you know, a lot of these people aren't as highly Steve Jobs wasn't technical. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:17 Alex Kantrowitz Right, and it's, I had this question for you about, like, the fact that you did six interviews with jobs and that tech leaders are going direct now, but it's almost like when tech leaders go direct and, like, tech companies are just going…
Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
My Experience Aboard The OceanGate Sub — With David Pogue of CBS
- ▶ 28:38 David Pogue He fancies himself, fancied himself with a little bit of Elon Musk, a little bit of Steve Jobs, to whom he compared himself often.
Palmer Luckey - Future of Virtual Reality, AI War, Autonomous Killing Machines, Militarized Policing
- ▶ 23:34 Palmer Luckey I mean, remember when, remember that, remember that Steve Jobs didn't want to originally open up the iPhone to external developers, and actually one of the people who convinced him otherwise was the, the former CTO of Oculus that I hired,… 2 times in the scene
How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 41:17 Alex Kantrowitz Apple was built to take Steve Jobs ideas and bring them into action. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:08 Alex Kantrowitz Steve Jobs has closed. 2 times in the scene
Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin
- ▶ 13:50 Max Chafkin but, but basically you have kind of like the Steve jobs way of thinking about companies. 4 times in the scene