← Back
Apple

Apple

product

1 creator use or recommend it

1 use 35 mention 3 critical
Last discussed Sep 24, 2026

Technology company known for iPhones, computers, and innovative consumer electronics.

What creators think

No creators independently endorse Apple here — the mentions are observational, and the critical voices are notable. Reid Hoffman says Apple "still don't seem to realize that Siri is like 20 years old," TBPN calls it "the most far behind" on AI, and David Senra blames Apple directly for poor email products. The Iced Coffee Hour describes selling Apple stock prematurely and regretting the emotional reaction, more a personal investing story than a product view. Tony Fadell and This Week in Startups reference Apple more as a reference point — on privacy trade-offs and feature timing respectively — than as a recommendation.

How Apple compares

3 creators weighed in
e-commerce and cloud giant

Both named together as top public companies worth holding long-term, and as big tech players that could acquire major startups.

E S
3 creators
EG
Elad Gil

"It may be one of the big tech incumbents and Apple, Amazon, right?"

Listed alongside Amazon and other big tech companies as potential acquirers

This Week in Startups

"It would make Apple so valuable to be able to say buy an iPhone and get a hotel anywhere you want."

Listed alongside Amazon as potential Uber acquirer

SG
Scott Galloway

"I basically only invest in stuff where I feel one it's a great public company where I can just hold it and give it to my kids and Apple and Amazon something like that"

Mentioned alongside Amazon as examples of quality public companies

What creators say

Showing every creator card. Back to the faster view
DB
Used for: Programming world simulation games and software Praised: Platform for early programming and game development

"I was programming Apple 2 stuff. For some reason I intuitively wanted to build world simulations."

More from David Baszucki →
IA
Immad Akhund
mentioned
Praised: Maintains high product bar across all launches; resists quality degradation o...

"I think Apple's really good at this. Whatever you launch, you should never — you should have a high bar for it. You should feel like you're giving delight with everything you launch."

More from Immad Akhund →
JX
Jiang Xueqin
mentioned

"The United States, mainly in California, Nvidia or Apple, they will design very advanced semiconductor chips to power the iPhone, to power video games."

More from Jiang Xueqin →
Founders Podcast
mentioned
vs: Singleton chose Apple over numerous other computer startups of the era becaus...

"He invested in Apple. I asked him how, with all these new computer startups looking alike, did you pick Apple? He replied, 'Well, I figured most of these millions of expected potential computer customers would at first be intimidated by computers...."

More from Founders Podcast →
Rich Roll
mentioned
Used for: Brand partnership for Hellah Sidibe

"You've done some stuff with Apple."

More from Rich Roll →
JS
Jack Selby
mentioned
Praised: Insane competitive moat, dominant in education, hardware-focused CEO, AI upside vs: Compared to other mega-cap companies; mentioned as a safe bet

"I would say Apple. I just think that the moat is insane. Tell me to buy a different phone, bring me a phone that's two times better than the iPhone. I probably wouldn't change."

More from Jack Selby →
John Coogan
mentioned Siri
Used for: Voice assistant with RAG database for searching messages, emails, contacts Praised: Builds comprehensive search index, natural search capabilities vs: Positioned as different from engagement-focused chatbots

"Apple threw down the gauntlet. They said that no one could make Siri their girlfriend. Said Siri won't be your AI girlfriend. when you install the new Siri, it builds an index. It rebuilds the search index, the spotlight index. It builds a rag dat..."

SpaceX IPO Gigastream · ▶ 1:39:38 · Jun 12, 2026
More from John Coogan →
TF
Tony Fadell
mentioned
Praised: Strong privacy principles that users reward vs: Contrasted with criticism that privacy stance holds them back

"Users will feel that and then I think and will will reward that as we see with Apple with privacy, right? And people say, 'Oh, they're behind because they're so private and there's this.' But it's a double-edged sword."

More from Tony Fadell →
Chris Koerner
mentioned

"Companies like Apple, Microsoft, Uber, HubSpot, they all use them, and so do independent entrepreneurs such as ourselves."

More from Chris Koerner →
PS
Paul Scherer
mentioned
Praised: Magical products that changed the world, attention to detail

"Steve Jobs has obviously, in many ways built incredibly magical products that have changed the world and people's lives in very meaningful ways. There's the story of how Apple reduced their boot up time of the Mac II where Steve said 'you're murde..."

More from Paul Scherer →
Ali Abdaal
mentioned
vs: Compared to Google's more lenient approach to employee content creation

"I know people from Meta, from Apple, from Spotify, from these other companies who got fired basically immediately with no recourse for having some sort of social media presence."

More from Ali Abdaal →
Praised: Most conservative in copying features, lets others extract value first vs: More ethical than other platforms in timing of feature adoption

"People would say Apple is the most conservative in this regard. If you look at when they add something to iMessage, they typically have let other people wring as much value out of that and then they finally add to the Apple Watch the ability to ge..."

More from This Week in Startups →
+2 more mentions from This

"Their future is local models running on massively powerful Apple silicon with 128 gigs, 256 gigs of RAM on your laptop and you're going to pay $4,0..."

"It would make Apple so valuable to be able to say buy an iPhone and get a hotel anywhere you want."

TBPN
mentioned
vs: Compared to TSMC's advanced manufacturing capabilities

"Apple has a secret fab. They have a Silicon Fab in Silicon Valley."

More from TBPN →
+3 more mentions from TBPN

"The problem is that it was hard to see Apple and SpaceX ever resolving who would actually be in charge."

"Mobile the next big super cycle led to the birth of Apple you know 3 and 1 half 4 trillion in market cap"

George Kamel
mentioned

"Apple just released the iPhone 17 and a new MacBook and their revenue went up and therefore the share price went up and therefore I benefited from that."

More from George Kamel →
EG
Elad Gil
mentioned
vs: Listed alongside Amazon and other big tech companies as potential acquirers

"It may be one of the big tech incumbents and Apple, Amazon, right?"

More from Elad Gil →
+1 more mention from Elad

"Her other board seat were Apple, BlackRock, and Swiss when she joined our board."

DS
David Sacks
mentioned
vs: Compared to other big tech companies

"the biggest tech companies, Apple, Nvidia, Google"

More from David Sacks →
AG
Alex Guzey
mentioned

"The question as constructed is basically what products is Apple going to launch in 2028 because these all map onto Apple product categories"

More from Alex Guzey →
BC
Brian Chesky
mentioned
Praised: Strong design talent network

"and like Apple's got like a design mafia"

More from Brian Chesky →
Tobi Lütke
mentioned

"I think Apple brought Steve back. It just created the boundary conditions for more financiers capital boards to actually just give founders like a longer run."

More from Tobi Lütke →
SG
Scott Galloway
mentioned
Used for: Investment example Praised: iPhone was key breakthrough, strong historical returns vs: Unlikely to 20x from current valuations unlike during 2008 crash

"People say Apple. No, it wasn't PCs. It was the iPhone. Amazon, Apple, and Netflix for 8, 10, and 12 bucks a share. I'm pretty comfortable saying Apple or Nvidia aren't going to 20x from here."

More from Scott Galloway →
+1 more mention from Scott

"Meta and Google and Apples of the world have control of their destiny because they have massive money cannons."

David Senra
mentioned
vs: Contrasted with Pixar - larger company size makes it harder to have all A pla...

"at the time Apple had like 3,000. So he says, 'Of course I have 3,000 employees. They can't all be BA players.'"

More from David Senra →
+1 more mention from David

"You sell Beats to Apple. Well, because company like Apple pays you a lot of money."

MI
Mike Isaac
mentioned

"My first one was insanely boring but important, the Apple versus Samsung thing back in the day"

More from Mike Isaac →
DM
David Marcus
mentioned
Used for: Wallet authentication vs: Listed alongside Google and passkey options

"So now you have really great wallets that you can log in with Google, with Apple, with a pass key"

More from David Marcus →
MK
Maruchcci Kim
mentioned

"I was actually at Apple for 5 years working on AirPods Max and AirPods Pro 2"

More from Maruchcci Kim →
Peter Diamandis
mentioned

"we just saw the Apple CEO, uh Tim Cook step down, the head of of hardware manufacturing stepping into the role."

More from Peter Diamandis →

"Tim Cook announces he's stepping down from Apple"

More from 20VC with Harry Stebbings →
+2 more mentions from 20VC

"Let's look at Apple for consumer hardware."

"American with no revenue. We're like Apple. It's great."

MG
Mark Gurman
mentioned

"Apple, they get vast majority of the revenue from hardware. He's the hardware guy."

More from Mark Gurman →
a16z
mentioned

"when paired with like a thing in your pocket that is also crafted and artisan with Apple and iPhone"

More from a16z →
AM
Anj Midha
mentioned

"Mike Markel personal computing effectively the first CEO for the first year of Apple was Mike Markel"

More from Anj Midha →
AD
Andrew Dudum
mentioned

"when you look at the biggest companies in the world they went public within a first few years of launching Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon"

More from Andrew Dudum →
All-In Podcast
mentioned

"If Android and Apple showed leadership with Facebook and said, 'We're going to by default when you buy a phone, you're going to have to ageverify kids under a certain age.'"

More from All-In Podcast →
RC
Ron Conway
mentioned

"Jobs started the PC, the only place he had to go to find executives was the semiconductor companies. So he went and got Mike Marlet to be the chairman and he got Mike Scott to be the president of Apple."

More from Ron Conway →

"I got to buy Apple, Amazon, and Netflix for 8, 10, and 12 bucks a share, respectively."

More from The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway →

"This is like Steve Jobs coming back to Apple taking 400 product lines and making like no, we're doing four computers or simplifying everything."

More from The Knowledge Project Podcast →
Tom Bilyeu
mentioned
Used for: Watching shows together with spouse vs: Used alongside Netflix for co-watching content

"When my wife and I used to sit down to watch something together, it would exclusively be like a Netflix or an Apple or something."

More from Tom Bilyeu →
JS
Jim Stengel
mentioned

"we are partnering with Apple on a shot on iPhone campaign around the Bahrain execution"

More from Jim Stengel →
TBPN
critical

"That's just like a UI feature that Apple should add. They haven't."

RH
Reid Hoffman
critical

"who knows where Apple will play out in all this stuff since, you know, like they still don't seem to realize that Siri is like, you know, 20 years old"

David Senra
critical

"I blame Apple. I blame Google. I blame Yahoo. I blame Microsoft for making shit email products that they just don't care about."

Sponsored mentions

These creators mentioned this product during a paid promotion

Ali Abdaal sponsored

"The fractional shares bit is really useful because it means you can invest in expensive stocks like Apple and Amazon and Google and stuff without actually needing to buy the whole stock."

About this data

  • ✓44,000+ mentions extracted from real podcast transcripts
  • ✓Every quote links to the source episode
  • ✓Sponsored mentions are always labeled
  • ✓Critical takes are shown, never filtered out
How Followed works →
Get an email when a new creator recommends it

Follow Apple

Free email updates