John Gruber

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"They looked at the way Anthropic has bundled up Claude and Claude Code and said we need to do something more like that."

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"If you're searching for Signal — Signal is a good example I always go to because they don't seem to pay — but if the Signal organization bought an ad on the keyword 'signal', you can buy your own name as the top result."

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"That $999 starting point had been the starting point for a base MacBook Air for I don't know at least 15 years."

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"You search for Roblox, or something that kids play, and there's like sometimes gambling apps that show up in number one. It's crazy."

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"Apple never had to or never decided to make a search engine for Safari and they just sat on, well, we'll just have Google as the default and Google will pay us for the traffic acquisition — it's like $25 billion a year now."

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"I think you can even get AirPods on Apple Upgrade. It's not just for iPhones."

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"I always go back to HBO, which just seemed too good to be true that you could watch movies and there were no commercials. That's always been sort of the Apple thing — MacBooks cost more and iPhones cost more, but part of the experience is you don't get inundated with ads."

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"If you just polled everybody who watches TBPN, who's in the lead right now? I think it's very clear — you'd be kind of nuts not to say Anthropic. It's verifiable based on revenue run rate. Who's got the momentum?"

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"The MacBook Neo is certainly the most interesting Mac product since the Apple silicon in 2020. They dropped the entry price not just by $100 or $200, but all the way down to $599."

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"Apple specifically, they now have the Apple Card, which is I don't know, seven, eight, nine years old. And they've had a program through that where if you buy an iPhone you get 24 months of zero interest."

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"Looking back at the WWDC from 2 years ago, 2024, when they first announced Apple Intelligence and then announced the stuff that 8 months later was supposed to be rolling out and they were like, you know what, we're going to have to postpone this by a year."

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"Those are really low prices for a brand new iPhone that has the latest silicon. It doesn't have the greatest camera, but so many people do not care about the camera. The camera on the E phones is fine — it's one camera on the back, a 1x camera that you can get 2x optical with the fancy sensor system that they have. It takes great photos."

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"The switch from selling SE models, iPhone SE that only get updated every 3 or 4 years, to an annual schedule of having whatever the current number is, they stick an E at the end — 16E, 17E, there will be an 18E next year. Those are really low prices for a brand new iPhone that has the latest silicon."

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"Is the actual computer science behind Google Search significantly better than what Microsoft has with Bing? No, not really. It's just that the scale is there on Google's side."