Apple

“So if Ethereum continues to be useful five, 10 years from now, you're going to have, and continues to accrue continues to grow, right? So if Ethereum becomes more and more successful, continues to solve a whole bunch of problems, then an ether is going to be w…”

“I think it's much easier for law enforcement to access your phone via touch ID, like you were saying through touch ID or facial recognition. But the nice thing Apple does is if you have three failed attempts, Or if you shut off your phone, you have to reenter …”

“They can't make Apple decrypt what you've got. If you've got an Android phone, you're much less well off.”

“Funnily enough, a buddy of mine was the first person to break the touch ID on the iPhone.”

“It seems less likely that if we were ever going to build like our own platform, that seems less and less likely. Like just because, you know, the Spotify's and the tune-ins and the Apple's are definitely like for a while, like they weren't really paying attent…”

“On iOS, there are keywords, and I think you have a hundred characters hidden.”

“In that one week period, we had more app downloads than we had an aggregate over the past two years. And we increased our subscriptions by like 10 to 15%.”

“IPad was already so far ahead in tablets. And then iPad pro took a massive step forward versus the last iPad. Like this is obscene how, how much, like there is no other. 1300 dollar tablet I would even consider. Like that's alone in its category, which is real…”

“Top schools, the ones that attract majority wealthy students and that have a lot of prestige associated to them continue to be the major hiring funnels for new grads for these companies. Including Google and Apple. The large, a large number, at some companies …”

“Well, you can just Google the best products and best companies in the world. They all have bad net promoter score. Like the iPhone, Apple, all of them have bad net promoter scores. Like it doesn't necessarily correlate with good products. Correlates with perce…”

“And, you know, Facebook is positioning itself to become a state monopoly like the Bell system was, as is Google, as is Apple, right? All of these companies, they want to be, when they say, please regulate us, right? When they say, please make rules to tell us …”

“So today, if you were to try and do this, like say you were to try and make Android devices first class citizens in on iOS environment, and in order to do so, you wanted to reverse engineer iOS and allow yourself to sideload in apps into iOS and also to suppor…”

“And then founders think, oh, I did this at a big company. Of course, this is how my product needs to be done, because when I was an engineer at Apple, I had to work for, let's say, the Vision Pro project. I was like, I don't know. Eight years, a decade of work…”

“Companies like Apple and Google have infinite budgets. They spend years developing new products and millions of dollars on each launch. If you applied that to any of your startup, your company would die long before you launched anything.”

“And agents can only be built with a browser. I, I'm very, like, convinced about that vision, that if you want to have a mobile agent, That you can actually build and implement without being restricted by whatever OS rules that Apple or Google sets in terms of …”

“Like BCI couldn't have done this on its own, but Apple and Samsung and others have poured epic amounts of money onto making these types of electronics exist in the world so that people like us can use them.”