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Coogan: Most future consumer AI usage will occur through existing platforms
“Most future consumer LLM usage will go through existing platforms, Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, iPhone, Android.”
Coogan: SpaceX developed an AI handset prototype with Qualcomm Snapdragon chips
“SpaceX developed an early prototype of an AI Focused handset. The device is said to be slimmer than the iPhone. Runs proprietary operating system. Uses XAI technology built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset.”
Gurman: Apple's initial Apple Intelligence rollout was a terrible service
“Launched this terrible AI service, Apple Intelligence, that didn't really work well. And what they found out is that it didn't resonate with customers as much as prior iPhones.”
Gurman: Apple will report its first $140B quarter in upcoming earnings
“And so they set themselves up for a pretty nice upgrade cycle, and you're gonna see that with their first hundred forty billion dollar quarter. When they report at the end of January, early February.”
Wang predicts an OpenAI smartphone will seriously challenge Apple's iPhone
“But Apple has, is really fumbling, and they know it, and when OpenAI comes up with the OpenAI phone, I think it will be a serious challenge to Apple because Opening eyes. I open the iPhone. We'll just be smarter. You know it.”
Hays: China's urban population exodus removes a massive iPhone growth driver
“China has a, is no longer adding people to its major cities. There's actually been an exodus from cities, which is a whole other issue in China right now, leading to Peter Zai Han has a good bid on You know, basically how much oversupply there is from a housin…”
Hays: Apple lacks commercial incentives to radically improve iPhone battery life
“The issue with them, if they massively improve their battery, that's a huge reason that people, you know, actually end up renewing their you know, buying a new device. So It's, they're sort of not the same incentive to be like, hey, let's, let's spend ten bill…”
Hays: Tim Cook lacks the visionary leadership to win post-iPhone computing
“I do think that it will become more and more clear that Tim Cook seems to be able to generally manage this, like, luxury brand type version of Apple, but it doesn't feel obvious that they have this sort of visionary product leadership that's going to have them…”
Hayes: Canceling Vision Pro would prove Apple is just an iPhone company
“If they discontinue it, it's such a colossal defeat and sort of like verifiable proof that you are an iPhone company.”
Hays: Apple iPhone guidelines warn against holding devices directly to heads
“Basically, last time I checked deep in the Apple iPhone terms of service, there's stuff that literally says, like, don't hold this device, like, up to your head.”
Coogan: Siri has 500 million users versus 1.5 billion total iPhones
“Estimates are around five hundred million active Siri users globally, which is huge, but there's 1.5 billion iPhone users, so Having only a third of your user base use your AI feature seems a little bit low, if that's the case.”
Senra: Apple's iPhone revenue alone eclipses Disney's entire combined business
“Apple makes more from the iPhone if they just had the iPhone and nothing else than, like, Disney does from every single thing they've ever, like, they, everything, all their theme parks, all their movies, everything else, just, like, that one single product.”
Coogan: European iPhone sales outpaced US growth despite lacking Apple Intelligence
“In fact, Europe outgrew the U S in iPhone sales and they don't have Apple intelligence at all with the exception of the UK for a couple of weeks in December.”
Hays: iPhone scale subsidizes Mac R&D like the Cayenne funded Porsche's 911
“I think it's underrated how in the same way that the Cayenne allowed Porsche to invest in the nine 11 platform. The iPhone has been that for the entire Mac ecosystem, right?”
Hays: Being a billionaire does not make using an iPhone more enjoyable
“The thing about the accessibility of all these things is being a billionaire doesn't make the iPhone more enjoyable. Somehow, like, there's not even really apps that you can get, right?”
Coatue correctly predicted early iPhone sales but mistakenly modeled declining prices
“When I look back at our old Apple model, I actually think we did a pretty good job on units. Where we were way off is we had the price of the phone declining five to 10% a year, because that's what every consumer electronics product did. And in fact, the ARPU …”
Coogan: Apple Q1 iPhone sales fell nearly 1%, missing analyst estimates
“On Thursday, Apple reported that iPhone sales for the quarter were down nearly one percent from the year prior to 69.1 billion, a miss from the 70.7 billion analysts were projecting, according to FactSet.”
Andreessen: Original iPhone Lacked Broadband and App Store, Took Five Years
“And people, you know, people forget it took like five years for the iPhone to find its footing. It took like two years to get the, I remember also the original iPhone didn't have, it didn't have broadband data. It was on the old two G it was called the AT&T ed…”