joining me to dig into the iphone's first decade is my hour, david for the kirkpatrick in new york. ank you for joining us. it is hard to sum up the iphone, but in your view, what is the biggest significance of this 10th birthday? david: you cannot come up with enough superlative's for the iphone as a business success. you have to say it is the most successful product ever. period. $800 million in sales. just this year financial gravity of how the iphone has been a success combined with the way it has shifted the nature of our behavior, that is astonishing. i'm -- emily: i know you have been thinking about how has the iphone changed our lives. david: we all walk around looking down like this. in new york, people just bump into each other on the sidewalk. you could often be in a public place, and look around, and literally every person in the space is looking down at a smart phone. they are not all iphones, but look, this has changed our behavior and wonderful ways, allowed us to do all kinds of but let'sthe economy, admit that it is changing behavior into negative ways, taking us awa

joining me to dig into the iphone's first decade is my guest cohost for the hour, david kirkpatrick inew york. thank you for joining us. it is hard to sum up the iphone, but in your view, what is the biggest significance of this 10th birthday? david: you cannot come up with enough superlative's for the iphone as a business success. you have to say it is the most successful product ever. period. $800 million in sales. it is unheard of. just the sheer financial gravity of the iphone has been a business success, combined with the way it has shifted the nature of our behavior, that is astonishing. emily: i know you have been thinking about how has the iphone changed our lives. david: or what it has changed for the worst. we all walk around, looking down like this. in new york, people bump into each other on the sidewalk constantly. you can be in a public place and look around and literally every space is looking down at a smart phone. look, this has changed our behavior in wonderful ways, it is allowed us to do all kinds of things in the economy we could not have done otherwise. that is be

david kirkpatrick, techonomy ceo, my guest host for the hour. thank you so much for joining us. thanks for having me. emily: coming up, the videogame industry's rapid growth. now worth over $100 billion with china accounting for almost 1/4 of global market share. quick programming note, we will have full coverage this friday of the u.s. jobs report on bloomberg television and radio. bill gross will be giving instant reaction with the americag: daybreak team. emily: in another move to compete with amazon, walmart is testing a delivery service using its own workers. employees can earn extra pay to deliver goods at the end of their work shift. the workers have to use their own car to deliver packages assigned near their homes. the test is being run at three locations in arkansas, new jersey, and aimed to better compete with the delivery services of amazon. china just topped the u.s. as the gaming capital of the world in terms of market size. revenue from computer games exceeded $100 billion globally in a single year for the very first time. --that number, $600 million 600 million g

emily: david kirkpatrick, not mincing words.onomy -- of te and the trading debut after raising $1.9 billion in the second biggest u.s. ipo. after itny gaining 9% sold $60 million more shares. the ipo comes one year after it was formed with the parent company closing the acquisition of cablevision. usa pledge to use the money for acquisitions. the ceo says they will look at any type of deal. >> we are focused on cable, we like cable. we like the opportunity to have more cable, if possible. if not, we will look at other things. emily: more from the noah conference in berlin, and discussing if crypto currency's will boom or bust. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: tesla is known for branching beyond cars to batteries. -- batteries, solar power, energy storage. they are in talks with record labels about their own music streaming service. it is unsure if they will go forward with the service or continue with its cute -- its current music services. multiple tearse of service, starting with a pandora-like web radio offering. i want to get bac

emily: we're joined by david kirkpatrick, from techonomy. ur reaction to this change in mission statement? david: there has been a lot happening at facebook recently in talking about themselves differently. i think they are unbelievably responsive to the growing concerns that have been developing about the social impact of their business, starting with fake news and facilitating terrorism and other problems people are accusing them of contributing to in society. many accusations have some validity. they are working very hard to say, yes, we are open to talking about that. today, they are trying to underscore the truly positive impact facebook has in people's lives. by talking so much about these communities and specifically emphasizing that facebook's new mission is to bring more community to the world, they are trying to remind people that for all the problems, facebook has a lot of truly positive impacts in the world. emily: how do imagine our facebook experience, and using the product actually changing as a result of this? david: that is a

we spoke to a member of the bloomberg energy finance team , david kirkpatrick, about the impact of thisecision. david the gap between president : trump and silicon valley is a grand canyon at this point, but i think what is more interesting to me is the question of how committed business has become, not just silicon valley, but most big businesses in the united states towards climate change remediation. the issue of whether climate change is happening or not is not really controversial among most business leaders. it is accepted, as much of your reporting has suggested. clearly, a lot of progress is going to still be possible even without the u.s. in the paris agreement despite the fact that everyone agrees it is a stupid, stupid thing to pull us out. emily: let's talk about this, colleen. how are tech companies and broader u.s. businesses actually going to respond in action rather than words? colleen: great question, emily. we have already seen action out of silicon valley from these companies. if you look at the tech amiche, amazon, apple, google, microsoft -- they got together in def

emily: that was colleen regan of bloomberg new energy finance and david kirkpatrick.oming up, another wild week for uber. the startup fired the star engineer at the center of its bitter dispute with waymo. the head of finance steps away from the firm. and the electric car market has been growing in fits and starts for years. but could the chevy volt be the tipping point for the industry? we will hear from one analyst literally who ripped up the car to find out. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: amazon crossed a major milestone this week. the stock traded above $1000 a share briefly for the first time ever on tuesday and has since hovered just below that price. the company has been wooing investors with dominance in online commerce and cloud computing. the stock is up almost 40% from a year ago, outpacing the broader market. meantime, some frazzled parents might get cash back from amazon. the tech giant will refund customers whose children made unauthorized mobile app purchases between 2011 and 2016. the federal trade commission ruled that amazon made it too easy for child

david: carol, before we go, jean kirkpatrick, once our u.n. ambassador, she said there is difference between authoritarian government and a totalitarian government. clearly that would be the difference between what is happening in saudi arabia and what has been happening in cuba for the past 60 years. i've been to cuba. big difference, totally totalitarian in it is nature and design. but we think you. steve forbes, carol roth. have a great weekend. don't forget catch steve forbes and me this weekend for for example and fox on 11:00 a.m. even saturday on fox news and sunday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on -- seven a.m. eastern sunday on fbn. melissa: steve scalise, the latest on his condition coming up. david: thousands more u.s. boots could be hitting the ground in afghanistan. could this turn the tide in the war against the taliban? melissa: senate republicans are scrambling to create their own health care bill and not everyone is on board. why both conservatives and democrats are taking issue. >> they are writing their bill in private. they're keep