App Store

6 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 19, 2024 by Dave Morin · across every show →

Everything said about App Store, oldest first

Jan 19, 2024 positive
Opinion
Dave Morin: Apple's App Store controls are not anti-competitive but driven by trust
“I think broadly the app store has shown a pretty even hand, and the point of the thing is trust, right? Like, when I pick this thing up and I download anything onto it, I trust it. Right. And to build that trust, you have to invest and build something like thi…”
Dave Morin Jan 19, 2024 ▶ 42:01 #30: The Great App Store Debate, Layoffs, and Playoffs... Oh My! · More or Less Podcast
Jan 19, 2024 neutral
Insight
Sam Lessin: Apple's 27% fee implies payment processing is worth only 3%
“The answer is, three percent is for payment processing, which is about what you pay for payment processing.”
Sam Lessin Jan 19, 2024 ▶ 11:59 #30: The Great App Store Debate, Layoffs, and Playoffs... Oh My! · More or Less Podcast
Jan 19, 2024
Disclosure
Sam Lessin Kept an Apple Executive's Business Card in an Emergency Glass Box
“I had a business card of one in an Apple executive that worked in the app store, and I put it in a glass box that you would break in an emergency and left it in the office. So then I'd say like, look, when you're pushing bills and things come up, if you need t…”
Sam Lessin Jan 19, 2024 ▶ 43:26 #30: The Great App Store Debate, Layoffs, and Playoffs... Oh My! · More or Less Podcast
Aug 2, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Morin: AI boyfriends far outpace AI girlfriends in App Store usage
“Well, there was a piece this week, I'll have to find it, that looked at the data in terms of what's being used in the App Store, and AI boyfriends are far outpacing AI girlfriends, apparently.”
Dave Morin Aug 2, 2024 ▶ 26:35 #58: The Death of Friends · More or Less Podcast
Sep 13, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Dave Morin: The Apple App Store did $1 trillion in business in 2022
“You know, he was telling me that the app store did a trillion dollars in business in 20, 22 alone.”
Dave Morin Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 19:04 #64: Meta vs. Apple: the Future of Open vs. Closed Tech · More or Less Podcast
Mar 20, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dave Morin: OpenAI and Major Apps Face Month-Long App Store Delays
“I heard that open AI and some of the bigger apps have been stuck in the queue for a month. For changes that are unrelated to VibeCode, it's just random changes unrelated.”
Dave Morin Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 49:02 Nvidia’s GTC Was “Taylor Swift for Straight Men” (Apple, OpenAI, and OpenClaw News) · More or Less Podcast
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