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🗓️ 20 June 2024
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0:00.0 | I still come back to this idea that that just it does feel overwhelming as I hear you talking about it, like I, okay, |
0:15.8 | I'm imagining now every single thing you sign up for now, |
0:19.8 | anything, it doesn't matter what it is, |
0:21.6 | the gym that I go to, of course they have an app and of |
0:25.0 | course that's the way that you schedule your classes every single place has this I find |
0:31.9 | that extremely tiresome. Everyone finds that tiresome. |
0:36.1 | Apps were never intended when Apple design, when Steve Jobs announces the iPhone, the only apps available were designed by Apple. |
0:46.8 | It was never imagined to be what it is today. |
0:50.1 | Now they made a shift with that because they could see the opportunity in the marketplace but when you go forward you know it's more than 10 years now and you look at what was intended with the iPhone, you know in one sense the first smartphone that was out there and what we have today |
1:06.2 | in it is extremely exhausting. Everybody listening to this, you know this is true, |
1:12.1 | it's so sick of having to have every single thing you do, |
1:15.0 | you have to go back to that app |
1:16.4 | and then maybe you have to update that app |
1:18.6 | before you can even use it because you haven't used it for a while. |
1:20.6 | Okay, so I get the idea that new apps coming in pushing back. But when you say Uber, for example, when I hear that, if I think of my honest reaction to that, I travel all over the world. Uber has been so useful to me. I think wherever |
1:36.0 | I am, no matter what the situation, okay, Uber can solve the problem in most countries. Now, that goes to the heart of the problem as far as I'm concerned. |
1:46.4 | I don't mean the unintended cost problem. I mean the utility, the utility of the device in our pockets is the is the problem that I |
1:58.2 | don't know fully how to solve it's like the utility of the car. The car kills unbelievable number of people every year. |
2:06.0 | It's just unreal. If we invented something today that killed that many people, we would not approve it, I think. |
2:12.0 | But the car is so so much utility there's so much |
2:16.0 | symbolism around it for people the world over we put up with it in the externalities that |
2:21.5 | follow because of the utility. The utility of the phone |
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