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5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benedict Evans · said 12 times in 7 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2019 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
- a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Evans: Terms like 'app' and 'installed' will be obsolete in five years
“I mean, if I was to say, That I installed a app on my Android smartphone in five years' time. I don't know what any of those words would mean. I don't know what installed would mean, because is that a web app? Is it something happening within a messaging syste…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Evans: Over 95% of non-China Android devices run latest Google Play Services
“So on the one hand, something like 96, 97% of all live Android phones outside China Where Google isn't present, but all the ones outside China that are therefore mostly connected to Google. Over 95% of these things have the latest player version of Google Play…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Evans: Google bypassed Android OS fragmentation using Google Play Services
“Always been kind of trying to get the handset makers to do operating system updates, and it's never worked. But they sort of got around that part of the fragmentation problem for their own services by putting Google Play services on top of everything.”