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“to now. And obviously you use the iPhone and Apple watches and all that stuff. So let's start with that. And I think that's hard to square then that there's this other company that's fiercely focused on just itself and constantly trying to do things by itself and not working well with others.”
“I like, I trust American Express with my, it's always going to go through. So he realized people were mispricing it. Same thing with Apple. He was like, if you have somebody with an iPhone, there isn't like you have to pry it from their dead, lifeless fingers to get them to switch by default. And he's like, that's an unbelievable thing.”
“Well, that's the problem with committing to something like that. Because if you tried an Apple iPhone and you realize, oh my God, this is so much easier to use and better and it does things for. Yeah. I don't want to even think about that.”
“company and he starts growing and growing. He's famous to have gone to Steve Jobs and said, I'm going to take the iPhone. When the iPhone just came out, he knew it was going to be a hit. And I'm going to give it to every subscriber in Japan. He invents the leasing model for it and gives an iPhone that everybody signs to his servers because everybody wanted the iPhone.”
“The example I used before is video phones. Video phones were invented in the 70s. They were not deployed until iPhone. Because market reasons, just because I can automate something doesn't mean I want to automate it. So I absolutely cannot make predictions about customer preferences in terms of what they want, in terms of human service, not human.”
“bone scan data suggests might be an issue, and sperm data, or just sitting next to a Wi-Fi router all day. Somebody broke down, isn't there in the phone itself, in the iPhone itself, somebody had covered this, that it literally tells you you're supposed to keep it a certain distance from yourself. That's a great fucking disclaimer.”
“There were cell phones before iPhones and Steve Jobs. There was, I think, the Korean Samsung. I had a Motorola StarTack back in the day. I have a cell phone that my wife and son forced me to get, and I use it to do my email, and that's all that I use it for. You don't get on TikTok? Do any dances? Nothing? No, no. Nothing? No memes?”
“Steve Jobs didn't do it that way. My iPhone has one, two, I think it's got four buttons. Last night, I discovered an essential button. I didn't realize that on the left side, the most recent conversation that I had with my iPhone, the sound quality was very poor.”
“sound quality was very poor. And I knew from Marie having showed me before that somewhere on that iPhone there's a volume control device, but I didn't know what it was. But yesterday I saw that on the left side there were two things.”
“Possibly, but I recall. Certainly with my iPhone. Marie did explain to me when she forced me to get the iPhone. She showed me that of these four buttons, two, these lengthy things on the left, are volume controls.”
“And once I've cleaned up the draft, then I dictate it into my iPhone, my three or four button iPhone, and my secretary cleans it up.”
“iPhone. I don't know if you've discovered this, but at the bottom of my iPhone, there's an icon, which looks like a microphone. That icon, when I press that icon, it allows me to dictate in other languages.”
“So the languages that I'm active in today are Italian and German. I do my correspondence on my iPhone in Italian and German because of this little device. Now this little, when my wife forced me to get the iPhone, there were a few buttons at the bottom that I didn't know about.”
“So I learned, and I do my correspondence in German and Italian now, never by hand. I always do it on the iPhone. Yeah, that's pretty amazing. With AI now, they have, I think Google was the first to do this. I think Samsung phones definitely had this, where you could have someone speak to you and it would translate their words in real time.”
“When you as the LLM industry want to prove your worth, you can't just be like, just use the product. When the first iPhone came out, I got Penn State at the time. Oh, I felt like the Apes at the beginning of 2001. It was like fucking official voicemail. It was immediate. And I showed it to tech friends.”
“iPhone and he bursts out laughing. $500 fully subsidized with a plan? I said, that is the most expensive phone in the world.”
“too much spend for not enough return. Paraphrasing there. And he made the point that in the run-up to the iPhone, there was thousands of presentations that when GSM radios get smaller, when Bluetooth radios get smaller, when Wi-Fi radios get smaller, it is inevitable that we will get something like this.”
“Tell me how buggy it is. Tell me how many problems. Even with my iPhone, the supposed best UX in town. Even the iPhone is a flipping mess these days. Okay, so the research says the short answer is yes.”
“And it was filmed on two iPhones, one of which I'd had to borrow from a friend, and a single white USB microphone. And that was over seven years ago. Yeah, and now here we are. Remember it well when you were 12, right?”
“a MacBook or iPhone. They were designed 20 years ago. They're complete rubbish for AI. They're not the right interface. So we went out and we are out there designing what we think comes after the iPhone for AI.”
“So it's good, right? Well, those corporations, though, it's not good. And they literally have everything. We literally have given over our lives to the bag of heroin that's sitting in our pocket that's called an iPhone. Literally everything. All of our everything that we feel about anything, the way that we, you know, our perspective on politics, on”
“50 years. This has kind of hit an S-curve, hasn't it? As a form factor, my iPhone here. You know, since the iPhone, as you said, since the iPhone, like, 6, it hasn't really gotten thinner, better. The battery hasn't really taken a leap forward as such.”
“So we're now looking for another form factor to interface with computers. Yeah, you know, the iPhone 1 didn't have cut and paste. And we didn't get cut and paste until the version 3. And so there was a rapid improvement, versions 1 through 6 or 1 through 7, call it.”
“if they had to choose between a phone that was manufactured in America, where people were paid a very good wage and had benefits, and you have an iPhone that has a little American flag on the back, and you have one that doesn't, I think a lot of people would buy the one with the American flag on the back. Because they would feel better about their purchase. They'd feel,”
“they get a new iPhone and they don't. There's no instruction manual. They're just playing around with it.”
“Information was different. Our version of reality was different. Yeah. Everything. Everything was different. Fuck. And you rode it out from answering machines to pagers to fucking sidekicks to iPhones to the internet to everything.”
“I hope they smack somebody who made that and go, hey, bro. They will. I think one of the designers was one of the guys who was involved in designing the iPhone, and it fucking looks like it. No. That's why it's got all the 20 iPhone.”
“Fuck you. Out of the design room. You can't design a fucking Ferrari just because you made an iPhone. You're going to make it look sleek and plain. Yeah. No, it's got to look like art, you motherfucker. Someone's paying a quarter million dollars for this thing.”
“And then that Johnny Ivey piece of shit. That's a fucking thing. There was like three dudes. One dude, like, I guess, designed the iPhone, and there's two other designers involved. They probably work for Lamborghini. They're probably spies. They probably, you know, they infiltrated and decided to ruin it from the inside.”
“and people really hate relative poverty. You can give people iPhones and you can give people the creature comforts of a 21st century economy, but if you make rich people way richer, you're going to have significant problems.”
“know it. So it's kind of an agentic home screen. For your iPhone, it turns out the iPhone home screen hasn't changed in 20 years. You're roughly using the same device, the same thing. Widgets, I guess. Yeah, and they're underutilized. I think we use them in a creative way. And so, like, you know, we're not going to go, we're like two people, three people.”