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Puri: $20K humanoid robots will surpass the iPhone as biggest product ever
“Dude, these robots, When they work, it's going to be the biggest product ever invented in the history of mankind, bigger than the iPhone, bigger than anything. When you get a 20,000 dollar robot that can do, do work, it is the biggest product ever.”
What-if
Luckey: Oculus probably wouldn't exist without the iPhone
“I mean, like, honestly, Oculus owes more to the iPhone than anything else. I mean, like, if the iPhone wouldn't have existed, there wouldn't have been broken iPhones for me to buy, unlock, repair, and sell on eBay. Like, cause I made tens of thousands of dolla…”
Assertion Supported
Puri: Tech founders like Jobs and Zuckerberg keep their kids off screens
“Steve Jobs, you know, he'll invent the iPad and the iPhone, but at home his kids don't use it. Zuckerberg, his kids aren't on social media. It's like, do as they do, not as they say that you should do, right?”
Opinion
Parr: High-quality remote video is the modern equivalent of wearing a suit
“The analogy we made or someone made is having camo. It's like in the seventies and eighties and nineties when it mattered that you wore suit, having a camo is like showing up in a meeting in a nice suit.”
Disclosure
DeMuro shoots half of his YouTube car reviews on an iPhone
“Basically the shots where I'm like in them, there's a, it's a cam, it's a Sony, four K camcorder, which isn't cheap, but it's also not like a crazy camera. And then an iPhone is yeah. Half the video is done on an iPhone.”