If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.

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This quote highlights the importance of innovation and being the first to capitalize on new opportunities. If someone had been the first to design and patent an iPhone application, they would have had a significant advantage in terms of financial success. The speaker realized that music icons like Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones could have potentially taken advantage of this opportunity, so they took the initiative to collaborate with Apple and develop an application, presumably to ensure they were not left behind in this new digital realm.

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