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The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 14:08 Benedict Evans Windows and iOS did, but they were doing something else. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:36 Benedict Evans No more than, like, Microsoft or Apple could build every Windows app or every iPhone app. 2 times in the scene
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 11:28 Benedict Evans And then the second half of the stream is, oh, and here's our API stack that's going to enable 100,000 of new software developers just like Windows.
- ▶ 30:24 Benedict Evans And the app, Windows apps are basically just kind of thin Win-thirty-two wrappers.
- ▶ 48:15 Benedict Evans But the interesting candle example here would be to think about what happened to Microsoft in the 2000, which is the entire dev environment gets away from them and no one builds Windows apps after like 2001 or something, but you need to… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 18:34 Benedict Evans This is Apple putting QuickTime on Windows. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 0:30 Benedict Evans I'm here with Stephen Sinowski, and we've been talking a fair bit up around the kind of fundamental platform shift that's going on in tech from PC, Wintel, mouse, Windows-based computers to mobile operating systems, and we thought it was…
- ▶ 9:04 Benedict Evans And five years ago, that would have been a Windows app. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:52 Benedict Evans So as you're sitting and looking at that nurse's station, you've got a Windows PC there that has management cost.
- ▶ 20:06 Benedict Evans And we moved the front end from a Windows application that we had to think about all the time and manage an update to a browser. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 8:45 Benedict Evans I mean, I've, I've had sort of variants of this conversation with Steven Sonofsky, our partner here who used to work, um, ran Office and then ran Windows.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 14:43 Benedict Evans We give up, more or less give up on making phones, but we add touch to Windows.
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 33:12 Benedict Evans This comes back to what we were saying about the performance issue on the Galaxy Note, which is, in a sense, what we're doing is we're rerunning Mac versus Windows. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 11:36 Benedict Evans The strategy is Office, and Office and Windows. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 2:27 Benedict Evans And so you could almost, should almost be looking at this and thinking, okay, Windows, Mac, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:29 Benedict Evans And so you've got the taskbar in Windows, you've got the expose on the Mac, and then you had the multi-split screen thing in Windows eight. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:31 Benedict Evans I mean, this is something we haven't talked about, which is this sort of, it's a transition from, I mean, and it's something that's very interesting when you look at the iPads next to the Surface, um, which is because the Surface comes…
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 3:10 Benedict Evans Um, and then there's a sort of a third run, third question in here as well, I think, which is sort of Facebook sitting on other people's platform, and the smartphone itself is kind of, is a platform for the internet in a way that Windows… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 15:49 Benedict Evans Within this for Google, which is like, does, given, like, the kind of, the fundamental shift as we went from, one of the fundamental shifts as we went from the desktop internet to the mobile internet was that the smartphone itself is the…
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 4:23 Benedict Evans Yes, you could write a Windows application that connects to the internet, and yes, there was Steam and so on, but basically the internet experience was in the browser, and on the smartphone it's on the operating system, and you target, you…
- ▶ 7:12 Benedict Evans So Microsoft, Apple has got several multiples of what Windows had had when Windows like 95 was a new thing. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 5:17 Benedict Evans Saying that, you know, unlike, say, a web browser on a, either a Windows or a Mac, where the web browser was the platform and the Windows or the Mac computer wasn't really where you were building internet services. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 11:16 Benedict Evans Um, you know, you can have email and PowerPoint, or you can have email and a web browser, and so you can multitask in a way, again, that you can do on the surface, you know, with Windows, from starting from Windows eight, you had this… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 7:31 Benedict Evans Is writing down the mobile acquisition from Nokia, and really signalling the end of Windows everywhere, um, as the kind of the driving strategic force of the company that, you know, you can get Office on iPad, that they're neutral as to… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 2:34 Benedict Evans Um, rather it was kind of Windows and Mac OS built up all that kind of stuff over the last 30 years.
- ▶ 16:08 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, it's a little bit like, as I was saying on the WWDC podcast yesterday, it's a little bit like what Windows was trying to do, what Windows Phone was trying to do with the home screen, where you had this stuff appearing on the…
- ▶ 18:40 Benedict Evans And so you had your Windows, or you had your Mac, and you had one icon, which was the internet, and everything appeared within Netscape Navigator.
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 27:25 Benedict Evans And I'm kind of, again, I'm sort of exasperated by people who think that looking at Windows versus Mac tells you something about this, because both the iPhone business is in a fundamentally different position in the industry to where the… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
- ▶ 11:02 Benedict Evans Now, at the moment, that's actually a Windows tablet, and if you squint at it, it's actually running an application that's kind of really designed for a mouse, so it's a little bit cumbersome for this poor guy.
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 23:51 Benedict Evans Why wouldn't you buy a Windows or a Mac?
a16z Podcast | The Promise (and Nightmare) of Cross-Platform Software
- ▶ 0:50 Benedict Evans So if you were to look at, you know, Windows and Mac, you have a file picker, you have Windows, you have scroll, you have,
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 14:30 Benedict Evans Uh, Macs, because there's, you know, something like one and a half billion Windows PCs out there. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
- ▶ 15:24 Benedict Evans What we would think of as a PC running Windows or Mac OS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:05 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, just to sort of, to wrap up, I mean, there's a final thing that I keep seeing in mobile, which is, you know, in one sense, the platform wars have played out, and we've got Apple and Google and maybe Windows, and, but nothing… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 7:33 Benedict Evans You know, when you're, if you were a software developer, 30 years ago, when you were saying, right, we're going to invest ten million dollars making an application for Windows, do we invest another five making it for Mac, and there's no…