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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 5:12 unnamed speaker The same company he thought should control everything from the hardware to the components to the software, the mouse, the keyboard, everything, which is kind of like what the iPhone is today.
- ▶ 19:09 unnamed speaker And then finally, in 1993, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, literally one weekend away from just closing the doors completely, and so Steve Jobs and his hardware chief, John Rubenstein, who was also one of the creators of the…
- ▶ 22:02 unnamed speaker He was working on software in 1986 that by the year 2007 would be the foundation of the iPhone.
- ▶ 35:53 unnamed speaker There would be no iPhone, no iPod.
- ▶ 56:27 unnamed speaker This is the first ever iMention in Apple, the predecessor to the iPod and the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 18:23 Shane Parrish You're effectively like a calculator app on the iPhone or like, how do you think?
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 0:48 Mark Pincus But I've found that if, if a product speaks to you, or at least, this is my experience, if this product speaks to me, and it makes it on the front of my iPhone, I think it has a billion dollar stick value. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:44 Mark Pincus Soon after I started Zynga, John Doerr and Bing said to me, the greatest thing you could do is build an internet treasure, ok, and that's what they called Google, and eventually like the iPhone, and, and what I attached, the tagline I…
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 1:11:10 Morgan Housel Steve Jobs creates the iPad and the iPhone and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, the, the rest is history from there.
How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
- ▶ 53:38 James Clear I will go back through and take photos of each of those and highlight the photo, uh, on my iPhone and just copy and paste it into, uh, like an Evernote file or, you know, Google doc or wherever I'm storing that stuff at.