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slash disclosures. Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland. And I sit here with Steven Sinovsky and

Benedict Evans. And in the room are two brand new tablets. And Stephen, I can't help but notice.

Yours is the brand spanking new iPad Pro, the smaller version, and you've covered it in stickers.

I broke with tradition because there was always this weird thing that, like, on Macs, on laptops, everybody puts stickers.

But you never see stickers on an iPad.

No!

It just has tweeted many times.

And so the first thing I did was, like, this is a laptop replacement for me. And so I put stickers on it.

And so good news, I work with product hunt, buildings filled with stickers.

So I have a bunch of stickers now.

Yeah, I see yoga stickers.

I see product on stickers, of course, and some California joints on there, too.

Yeah.

And I also, I put the apple completely upside down,

um, because it's a historical reference. It's a historical reference because the apple is

faced sideways. So I put the sticker on it like just completely upside down. How can you say

it's a laptop replacement for you already? Well, that's, it is, that's important because normally

when Ben and I have

these discussions over the course of the hallway, we wait like a month to really draw a conclusion.

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