Chromebook
also referred to as: chromebooks
includes Chromebook Pixel
5 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benedict Evans · said 24 times in 7 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Benedict Evans (12), Niels Provos (4), Steven Sinofsky (3), Martin Casado (2)
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2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 22 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
- a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- a16z Podcast | The State of Security
- Security Markets: The Lay of the Land
- a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about Chromebook, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Evans: 90% of enterprise PC users do not need desktop PCs
“There's a sort of a core part of the PC market that actually needs to be on a PC, because you're running Excel, or you're running Photoshop, or AutoCAD. And the other 90% of it actually doesn't need to be on a PC. It can be on a Chromebook, or it can be on som…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Evans: Chromebooks realize Larry Ellison's 1990s Network Computer vision
“To me, a Chromebook is exactly what Larry Elson was trying to do 20 years ago. I mean, technically the architecture might be different. It's exactly the same thing. It's a web browser that runs client, that runs applications over the network.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Niels Provos: Chromebooks with security keys create uncompromisable endpoints
“I continue to be a big proponent of something like a Chromebook with a security key, right? Essentially, you have an endpoint that cannot be compromised, even if you try. Because the weak point in all of this continues to be the human.”