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Bier: Apple is the true monopoly, hurting small businesses via ad changes
“Yeah, it goes to show that the monopoly might not be Facebook. It might very well be Apple. The fact that they could just, you know, hobble a bunch of small businesses overnight with by hurting the performance of ads. And I think, you know, a lot of people say…”
Wilkinson: Device controllers like Apple will capture most consumer AI value
“The people that will ultimately capture a lot of this value are going to be whoever controls the devices. Because I do believe like a lot of these LLM a lot of this functionality will ultimately be implemented.”
Moritz Kremb: Hosting autonomous AI agents locally is safer than cloud VPS
“To mitigate that, I actually recommend just like set it up on a local Mac. Because there the risk is much lower than if you're setting it up on a VPS. Like a VPS is this thing that's in the cloud and it's like constantly connected to the internet. And it's jus…”
Isaacson: Apple already has unannounced AR glasses fully developed
“I don't know when Apple's going to finally unveil what they have. There, but I'm sure it's sitting somewhere in the basement and they have the glasses ready to go, but I can't wait for that.”
Knapp: Apple Screen Time features have failed to reduce phone addiction
“It's clear from that chart that like Apple's sort of screen time features and all that stuff. It's like, it's not making a difference. Like this is still a problem.”
Farroki: Claude Code is exceptionally good at generating Apple UI animations
“It's because Claude Code, for example, is very well trained at interactions and animations, which might surprise a lot of people. Like, it is very, very good at this stuff. Apple has a great animation library that's very well documented, and so it can actually…”
Farroki: Claude Code built an interactive Swift Metal shader in two prompts
“This was completely done by Cloud Code as well, and all I did was tell it, can you recreate A kind of holographic sticker where I can move my finger around and I can drag along the sticker. And I was so surprised that it was able to get this in, I think, two p…”
Isenberg: Mobile app gross margins are 80% to 90% before Apple's cut
“The monthly MRR, you know, because they're software businesses and there's not much cost, your gross margin is going to be 80 to 90% before Apple takes their cut.”
Isenberg: Hit apps will emerge on Apple Live Activities within 12 months
“My prediction over the next six to 12 months, live activities and iPhone lock screen widgets, like we're going to see one or two really big bangers basically.”
Wilkinson: Apple will analyze messages more, but never flag toxic contacts
“I think like some of these things Apple will do over time. Like I think their message summary is, is like an indication that eventually they're going to start digesting more of your messages. But I don't think that Apple would ever tell you who's toxic or narc…”
Courtney: Gift vouchers let premium brands discount without cheapening products
“And I think that's like a really great way to not cheapen these high quality products and like these kind of, you know, high end products while still technically giving you a discount.”
Coogan: Apple easily displaced Tile because Tile mimicked Apple's design aesthetic
“They've done this before with the tile app, which was a little tracker, a little Bluetooth tracker that you put on your keys. That business was doing phenomenally. Because everyone, no one wants to lose their keys. But the problem was, is that then Apple saw a…”
Coogan: Apple will never launch a device stripped of the App Store
“And then they're also never going to be in a situation where they, where apple says, Hey, we're launching a device and we deliberately nerfed it. So it doesn't have an app store. And you can't install Tik Tok or Roblox. Like they're just never going to do that…”
Wilkinson: Apple will probably add blood glucose sensing within five years
“Another bet would be to say, you know, in the next five years, Apple will probably have a blood glucose sensor and that people will start monitoring things like that in their health more and more and more.”
Schneider: AI influencers give brands high-leverage recognizable faces like iconic founders
“Why are iconic founders so impactful to brands? It's because people like have a hard time, like thinking about a brand, like in their minds, like in like, you know, think, think about Apple and you're like, okay, maybe the logo, maybe the letters, et cetera. B…”
Iverson: iPhone's massive scale allows for easy hardware accessory ecosystem businesses
“That phone is so popular and so many are sold every year that you can build a business on top of that ecosystem pretty easily.”
Spotify indexes podcast episode descriptions, but Apple Podcasts only indexes titles
“Spotify will index your summary of your description of the episode, but Apple only indexes the title.”
Chris Hutchins sees 50% subscriber listening rate on Apple, 12% on Spotify
“On Apple, it's like, 50% of the subscribers on Apple listen to an episode on average, and on Spotify, it's like, 12%.”
Bloom: Meta estimated Apple's ATT would cause a $10B hit in 2022
“Basically, this was, it was ten billion dollars that was gonna be the impact to Facebook in 20, 22 was what they said on the earnings call, which, as he pointed out, is a, it's a pricing change because it's the level of price you can charge to the advertisers,…”
Dogecoin Beat Apple and Amazon in Retail Trading Volume Last Year
“Doge was the, over the past 12 months, the fourth most traded asset across all retail brokers and exchanges. And it was, it beat out by the way, it beat out Apple, Amazon, and the SPY index, the S&P. It was literally behind Tesla, Bitcoin, and Ethereum”
Finn: High-memory Mac Studios are virtually sold out
“Mac Studios pretty much sold out on any, basically every level. You can get it right now, but it's small amounts of memory. It's not like the big the big boys that allow you to run really good models.”
Isenberg: MedMen succeeded by creating the Apple Store of cannabis
“The cannabis industry actually did a really good job of taking something that was like, Pretty like it was for stoners and stuff like that. And then in LA, there was this company called med men, which basically created like the apple for cannabis stores.”