Nilay Patel

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36,692 appearances 132 recordings 4 series first heard Aug 2024 last heard 2d ago

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Decoder with Nilay Patel · Can John Ternus find Apple's next big thing? · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

And it doesn't seem like Apple knows how to tell that story. voice-verified

brands of tomato sauce in the aisle? voice-verified

Uh unless you're just trying to slowly boil the frog, right? voice-verified

You're you're gonna get people mad about this and then you're gonna do the next one the next time. voice-verified

Uh we'll see. voice-verified

I I I it just seems like this next generation of devices involves some kind of ambient listening that we are not ready for as a society. voice-verified

Like people are really mad about meta glasses. voice-verified

They voice-verified

we'll see what happens. voice-verified

The the one thing when w when when when I talk to the folks there, they never make the connection between Apple and Meta in the in the sense that voice-verified

Meta's apps run on Apple's phones. voice-verified

People are mad about Meta and they still think the phones, Apple's phones, are listening to them and they can't quite make that connection because it undoes a lot of their own messaging. voice-verified

If you believe your iPhone is listening to you, that's not just Meta's problem, it is also Apple's problem. voice-verified

And they kind of have to actively ignore that relationship because otherwise everything else falls apart. voice-verified

And I think that's why there's this blind spot, right? voice-verified

If people's watches start generating transcripts, it's voice-verified

Exactly the same relationship as my iPhone is listening to me and that's why I saw an ad for a vacation that I only talked to my friend about. voice-verified

You know, by the way, it's it's very funny you just mentioned that because that is exactly what Mark Zuckerberg just said to our friend Alex Heath. voice-verified

Oh, that's funny. voice-verified

He literally said, How is it different than a phone? voice-verified

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