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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Apple comes up
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 9:30 Chris Dixon There's no one in the middle changing the algorithm, no one in the middle taking 30% as Apple and Google do, and the App Store, and services like Facebook take much higher percentages, so you keep the economics, you own what you build, and
- ▶ 34:08 Chris Dixon One of the brilliant things that Apple did, and this happens in all computing movements, is at some point that underlying infrastructure got abstracted away.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 8:23 Chris Dixon No one can step in and say, Apple takes 30% or Google and Facebook take a hundred percent of the revenue.
- ▶ 47:17 Chris Dixon There is also sometimes an advantage to starting later in the same way that you had Apple and the other tinkerers, but then you had Compaq and Dell and Microsoft and all these other people take the baton and run with it.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 5:18 Chris Dixon I was interested in computers and when I was a kid in the eighties, so I had, you know, if you talk to people in the business, in the industry, probably a pretty familiar path, which is I got a Apple II
- ▶ 26:17 Chris Dixon So just like as the phone got better, the camera got better, which then allowed Instagram to come along and Instagram made photography on the phone even more popular, which in turn made Apple invest more into the camera.
- ▶ 45:25 Chris Dixon But then what happened is Apple came along and said, you know what, the world has changed, and now we can build a general purpose computing platform, which has messaging as a single feature and yet has many other killer apps as well.