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Patrick Collison: Money cannot be mechanically turned into great software products
“And this is one of the great facts about our industry is that you cannot turn Money into great products as a kind of mechanical operation. If it were possible, there would be many more great iPhone competitors. Facebook would have been long since eclipsed by M…”
Best: Losing half a cross-platform messaging network destroys 95% of users
“And if you're a messaging app, and your big drive is your half on Blackberry and half on iPhone, if you lose half your users, you don't actually lose half your users, you lose like, 95% of your users.”
Apple's strict dock connector rules nearly killed Square's early hardware ambitions
“And at the time, it was this big port at the bottom, and you had to pay Apple for access to that port. You had to pay Apple for a special chip that allowed you to build your hardware, and then you had to Convince them to let you do it, and at the time the iPho…”
Tannen: Web gaming behavior shifted when App Store launched, not iPhone
“And people's Behaviors with games changed overnight. It was actually not when the iPhone came out. It was when the app store opened up.”
Cloud file sync only became a mainstream consumer need after the iPhone
“This only became a mainstream need after the iPhone because most people had one computer at home, but then suddenly with a smartphone, everybody's got two. And for the first time, you need to get stuff back and forth very easily, and the only way to do that is…”
OtterBox's Defender was the very first protective case designed for the iPhone
“The Defender was really what launched Otter, and that was the first case for the iPhone as well.”
Weiss: 50% of Sephora Shoppers Use Their iPhones In-Store
“50% of people who go into a Sephora take out their iPhones.”
Berkowitz: The iPhone turned Insomnia Cookies into mainstream on-demand delivery
“The iPhone was an absolute game changer. It turned us from a late night on demand business in a universe where that did not exist to being right in the middle of what everybody wanted.”
Proto allows users to beam volumetric video using standard smartphones.
“So yes, you can beam into a proto right now Using your iPhone or any smartphone, you don't need to have a special camera.”
Simkhai decided to build Grindr instantly upon iPhone 3G GPS announcement
“It wasn't almost immediately. It was immediately. You know, the second he said this, I said, I need to build an app that lets me meet guys on it.”
Simkhai: Grindr's grid interface was inspired by the iPhone photo album
“And I remember, you know, one day looking at my photo album on my phone, And I said, hey, wouldn't it be great if these were the guys around me? And so that was really the inspiration for the user interface of Grindr, and it still remains today, is it's a grid…”
Testa: In 1997 I predicted handheld GPS devices optimizing park routing
“The first paper I ever wrote was in 1997. This is 10 years before the iPhone. I said, you know, one day we're going to walk through a park and we're going to have these handheld devices. It's going to have GPS and something's going to be feeding it the wait ti…”
Compaq co-founder Rod Canion exclusively uses a MacBook, iPad, and iPhone
“I use a MacBook Air and an iPad. Pro and iPhone.”
Samantha Bee Proved Backyard iPhone Footage Was Broadcast-Quality to TBS
“We just started shooting stuff, and it really turned out to be a proof of concept to the network that we could shoot in our backyard, and that it would look good, and that it could be broadcast quality, even though it's shot on an iPhone.”