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The Vergecast

Land of the Giants: This Changes Everything

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In Land of the Giants: The Apple Revolution, Recode’s Peter Kafka explores the company that changed what a computer is — and then changed what a phone is. From its beginnings as a niche personal computer company, Apple became the preeminent maker of consumer tech products, a cultural trendsetter, and the most valuable company in the world. And along the way, it changed the way we live. Listen to Land of the Giants on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Obviously, we talk about Apple a lot. There's a lot going on in that company.

1:01.0

There's the controversial CSAM features, there's the epic verdict, and the

1:05.0

challenges to how the app store works, there's employee unrest. But if you want a

1:08.3

deeper understanding of how Apple got to where it is, and its relationship to

1:11.6

China, the land of the giants is going to explain all that and more. You're about

1:16.0

to listen to the first episode in the series, which explores the iPhone revolution.

1:20.2

I'm in this episode. You're going to hear me talk about all the things that

1:23.4

cared my pockets before the iPhone, and how obvious it was they were all going to

1:26.8

be the same thing, the iPhone. You can follow the end of giants where we find your

1:31.1

podcast and the episodes come out on Wednesdays. It's a great show. Here we go.

1:37.8

January 2007. The world's biggest tech companies were off to a massive

1:43.0

convention in Las Vegas to schmooze and drink and show off stuff they wanted to

1:46.6

sell. But one giant company was not at the consumer electronics show. Apple.

1:52.3

Apple's absence of CES wasn't unusual. What was unusual was that Steve Jobs, Apple

1:57.8

CEO, was holding his own show at the same time 400 miles away. He set an

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