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- ▶ 14:24 John Coogan You've been obsessed with, you know, how many iPhones we're selling, how much we're selling them for, our margins on those iPhones, how, how many we can make, all of that. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:46 John Coogan We bring the business of manufacturing iPhones there, right?
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- ▶ 26:49 John Coogan That's, that's definitely gonna cut down on ChatGPT app usage for iPhone users, I would imagine. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 6:00 unnamed speaker They can use Google, they can have an iPhone and they can have an Nvidia gaming graphics card.
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- ▶ 11:23 John Coogan Uh, camera engineering, iPhone hardware, Mac hardware, silicon device testing, and reliability industrial design, manufacturing, audio smartwatches, Vision Pro development software.
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- ▶ 6:20 unnamed speaker And they'd said it was great, and they said you should buy a new iPhone because of it, and the model was bad. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 2:30 unnamed speaker Uh, I was framing it in somewhat of the same way as the, as the iPhone launches.
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- ▶ 7:28 unnamed speaker When I was 13, I was working on little iPhone apps, and knowing the vibe coding tools that are available today, I would have been able to make way more progress, I would have had a lot more fun, it would have been like having an expert,…
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- ▶ 24:56 unnamed speaker Like if I stay on stage and I say, I'm introducing a new iPhone.
Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More
- ▶ 5:35 unnamed speaker Uh, what, uh, what, what's, uh, what's your update, updated take on, uh, the new suite of iPhones? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:00 unnamed speaker Yeah, what about the iPhone Air? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:31 Mark Gurman Uh, Samsung would be happy if their iPhone Edge sold in the quantities the iPhone Air is selling.
- ▶ 8:39 Mark Gurman It's a technology exercise to really set the stage for an eventual foldable iPhone.
- ▶ 10:19 unnamed speaker People say they wanted an iPhone that doesn't scratch, but in practice they'll just put on a case, or is there more thought to that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:37 Mark Gurman If you've seen a bend test of the iPhone air, that thing does not, you can't manipulate that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:32 Mark Gurman Um, but to your point, you know, aluminum dissipates heat so much better, and it was like a big mistake that they moved to titanium with the 15 pro and 16 pro lines a couple of years ago.
- ▶ 20:48 Mark Gurman You cannot trust your iPhone to call you an Uber via Siri.
- ▶ 23:46 Mark Gurman It could have been a pretty easy plug and play to replace Google search on the iPhone and, and have an Apple revenue stream there.
- ▶ 28:51 Mark Gurman Um, and, and the bet is that the Apple brand is stronger than the Ray brand, uh, Ray-Ban brand, and I would guess the Apple brand is stronger, and if you had to choose between Ray-Ban glasses and Apple glasses, especially with the context… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:52 unnamed speaker As good of an experience as, like, an iPhone with even a physical headset.
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- ▶ 14:50 unnamed speaker He was the senior vice president iPhone software. 2 times in the scene
Brian Chesky Live on TBPN
- ▶ 19:48 Brian Chesky The iPhone, they didn't make every app in the app store, because can you imagine how big of a bureaucracy that would have had to be for Apple to build Airbnb and Uber and Instacart and Instagram and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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- ▶ 0:50 Jordi Hays That sounds kind of like typing on an iPhone.
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- ▶ 12:01 Jordi Hays It was, like, not that long ago that I was, like, coding little iPhone apps Pong.
- ▶ 32:23 Andrew Yang Uh, and obviously there was like a new iPhone launch just last week. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:49 Andrew Yang So it would be more cost efficient for someone who really wants the iPhone 17 to buy one unlocked and then sign up with Noble.
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- ▶ 38:49 Peter Tuchman And then instead of, you know, buying the next iPhone, he could probably
- ▶ 45:49 unnamed speaker We need to dive into the Apple and the iPhone announcement briefly. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:56 unnamed speaker Um, but the, the post that stuck out to me, there were a few about the design, but the big one was that the iPhone, 17 pro now has more graphics power than an M two MacBook air. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:59 unnamed speaker When you start like the, the incremental sales from, from like design driven decisions like this, I do think, I do think it'd be significant, but anyway, a huge keynote filmed on an iPhone, obviously a lot less graphics this time around. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:58 unnamed speaker Um, the wall street journal was also covering the Apple's iPhone air. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:05 unnamed speaker Uh, they, they, they, they, they had really good coverage of the, of the iPhone event. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:41 unnamed speaker So Apple says the majority of iPhones shipped to the US are now assembled in India, meaning they face no tariff, yet Indian suppliers aren't yet capable of delivering as many of the pro models that US consumers demand. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 12:20 John Coogan They weren't really switching into, okay, let's be the design arm of, because the, the iPhone.
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- ▶ 19:27 John Coogan Like, you can watch a great movie and be like, that was a good movie, and you're letting the movie, we talked about this with Marc Andreessen where I was like, the iPhone was a good iPhone, was a good phone, and he was like, no, it wasn't,…
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- ▶ 2:13 John Coogan That's an odd choice for the iPhone version of the app store.
- ▶ 22:29 John Coogan and you know, an iPhone, it's a necklace like, and it has Apple design language.
- ▶ 1:09:41 John Coogan A lot of features on display at WWDC that didn't ship when the new iPhone launched. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:02 Jordi Hays Uh, core to the new home devices are current products like, and current products like iPhones and iPads is an overhaul to the underpinnings of Siri. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 2:12 John Coogan That's an odd choice for the iPhone version of the App Store.
- ▶ 22:20 John Coogan Is a wearable AI device, and if he makes it look like an Apple product, and he makes it like, oh, it's instead of an AirPod and, you know, an iPhone, it's a necklace, like, and it has Apple design language, like, Apple will totally be able…
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- ▶ 30:28 John Coogan and it's shot on an iPhone.
- ▶ 41:34 John Coogan It actually made Apple stronger because people search on their iPhones. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:44 John Coogan And keeping the, keeping the flows, flow of iPhones.
- ▶ 1:14:09 Marc Andreessen There were, you know, smartphones for years before the iPhone. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:13:27 John Coogan Like there used to be two cameras. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:16:13 John Coogan You're saying like, you have an iPhone seven.
- ▶ 2:16:16 John Coogan We want you to upgrade to an iPhone nine.
Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 8:33 Marc Andreessen There were, you know, smartphones for years before the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:33 Jordi Hays The Blackberry Bold, I remember, it was like an iPhone knockoff.
- ▶ 13:29 John Coogan And I always go back to the iPhone. 6 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:07:27 John Coogan I feel like recently I got a new iPhone and, um, it just like came with Apple TV
- ▶ 1:17:36 John Coogan The next, the iPhone comes out and in order to actually do something to compete, they have to completely go into startup mode.
- ▶ 1:54:16 Jordi Hays Cause like when, like I haven't, I've got old iPhones laying around.
- ▶ 2:03:25 Casey Neistat And I think we've reached this point, like, iPhone, cell phone photography, it all looks so perfect. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:03:34 Casey Neistat I think the iPhone five was the last iPhone where when you took a picture, just sort of took a picture.
CASEY NEISTAT on Why Analog Is The Future
- ▶ 0:00 Casey Neistat iPhone, cell phone photography, it all looks so perfect in a way that it almost becomes artificial.
- ▶ 6:11 unnamed speaker Cause like when, like I haven't, I've got old iPhones lying around.
- ▶ 15:20 Casey Neistat And I think we've reached this point, like iPhone, cell phone photography, it all looks still perfect in a way that it almost becomes artificial. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:28 Casey Neistat Like, I think the iPhone five was the last iPhone where when you took a picture, just sort of took a picture.
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- ▶ 2:17:45 Ben Thompson It was, the whole Paul Ottolini turning down the iPhone contract is not true.
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- ▶ 2:32:04 John Coogan So, so, uh, pull to refresh on the iPhone was created by a Twitter employee, like a Twitter UX UI developer built that
- ▶ 2:55:49 Will Depue I think as long as OpenAI doesn't totally drop the ball on product or research, like, they have the center of gravity for the AI world, like, in the same way that no matter what Android ships, people are not gonna switch from their…
Apple Considers New AI partnership
- ▶ 0:23 John Coogan The iPhone maker has talked with both companies about using their large language models for Siri, according to people familiar with the
- ▶ 15:50 John Coogan A really strong missionary pitch for, you're, you are going to create, you're going to build models that are used at massive scale by every iPhone user, and you can actually, you know, surprise and delight the customer to the tune of…
- ▶ 19:18 John Coogan Um, in his discussions with both Anthropic and OpenAI, the iPhone maker requested a custom version that could run on Apple's private cloud computer.
Meta Poaches OpenAI Engineers
- ▶ 32:01 unnamed speaker So, so, uh, pull to refresh on the iPhone was created by a Twitter employee, like a Twitter UX UI developer built that
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- ▶ 27:20 Yacine Mtibaa You know, hardware is hard because you buy an iPhone and like you have an iPhone.
- ▶ 1:35:26 John Coogan You can't just buy a knockoff iPhone and have it delivered through the port of Los Angeles.
- ▶ 2:38:15 DJ Seo Yeah, I mean, I think in the long future, you know, I, I think there's going to be a lot of application layers that are going to be built on top of Neuralink, you know, in a similar ways that when the iPhone was released, I mean, it was,…
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- ▶ 9:42 John Coogan So, um, you know, the iPhones made over in China often flown via seven 47 to America faster than shipping on a cargo ship. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:00 John Coogan Yes, but it's, but it is locked down for privacy reasons on the iPhone.
- ▶ 1:23:28 Justine Moore Um, so a lot of them are focusing on verticals, like, um, Luma, which is a company we've invested in, did this really cool tool where you can upload, like, a, a nine by 16, like, iPhone style video, and you can just say extend, and it just
- ▶ 1:34:33 Justine Moore So there's one called, like, Raccoon Stole My iPhone, and it's a, it's an AI raccoon influencer. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 0:45 John Coogan He's making Legos right now, but on Monday we had him assemble the first American iPhone from scratch.
- ▶ 23:43 John Coogan They have a patent for a glass iPhone that, that you can see through or something like that, or, or something that actually, um, would, would, would appear more like glass or appear transparent.
- ▶ 28:48 John Coogan And today iPhones have gone from simply a popular device to the single most important object in people's lives.
- ▶ 33:18 unnamed speaker And even a feature like this, especially in the notes app of, of an iPhone was something that was being used millions and millions of times a day and, and it's worthwhile to make it beautiful.
- ▶ 34:40 unnamed speaker Jailbreak their iPhones back to, to looking. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:29 John Coogan This is their VS code competitor that you need to use to write Objective-C apps for the, uh, for if you're building iPhone software, uh, for building apps for Apple platforms, uh, developers can also plug in other models using API keys,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:50 John Coogan We are going to be assembling the first American made iPhone first ever, first ever. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:08 Tyler Cosgrove Um, yeah, so I'm, I'm today, I'm building an iPhone for s. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:15 unnamed speaker We can't start at the 16.
- ▶ 53:17 John Coogan We're gonna be on the trailing edge for a while, but if he can do a four s, then tomorrow he gets to the five, maybe the six, maybe the seven, starts working through them.
- ▶ 53:17 John Coogan We're gonna be on the trailing edge for a while, but if he can do a four s, then tomorrow he gets to the five, maybe the six, maybe the seven, starts working through them.
- ▶ 53:17 John Coogan We're gonna be on the trailing edge for a while, but if he can do a four s, then tomorrow he gets to the five, maybe the six, maybe the seven, starts working through them.
- ▶ 56:11 John Coogan It doesn't, it doesn't seem as complicated as building an iPhone potentially, but maybe it is. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:20 unnamed speaker It's a four S.
- ▶ 57:22 unnamed speaker So we didn't, we couldn't go all the way to, you know, whatever the 16 or the 17, whatever we're on now, but we had to start somewhere.
- ▶ 57:22 unnamed speaker So we didn't, we couldn't go all the way to, you know, whatever the 16 or the 17, whatever we're on now, but we had to start somewhere.
- ▶ 59:36 John Coogan Will Apple announce iPhone assembly in the United States before September? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:01 John Coogan You get an iPhone four ass handmade by a college educated machine learning engineer.