wearables

8 statements across 6 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about wearables, oldest first

Jul 15, 2017 positive
Insight
Evans: Wearables, IoT, and drones are fundamentally just reassembled smartphones
“It powers wearables and Internet of Things and connected cars and drones and everything else, because fundamentally all of those things are basically smartphones just put together in a different way, but put together by the same people with the same components…”
Benedict Evans Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 8:47 Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mercando: Consumers will buy wearables on seasonal fashion cycles like clothing
“I think so, yeah. And I think that they'll be buying devices, again, in the same sort of life cycle that they buy clothing. So when the new device comes out that season, they'll want to run and buy it. They'll want to buy the winter version, they'll want to bu…”
Christina Mercando Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:36 a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Dixon: Enterprise applications will lead consumer adoption in wearable tech
“I think there's a reasonable chance that you'll see the corporate use cases leading Like, unlike what we've seen over the last 15 years in technology, which is the consumer has led the enterprise. You know, the stuff you have at home on your iPhone and Gmail i…”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:43 a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Evans: Wearables reinforce an app model over a web model
“What they also, I think, of course, do is reinforce an app model as opposed to a web model, incidentally.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:40 a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Rachel Kalmar: Wearables fail by delivering raw data instead of solutions
“Most people say, okay, I have flour, but I don't bake. I want a cookie. Where's my cookie? And the challenge is that there aren't cookies yet, and that's not the fault of any one company. It's just a reflection of where the field is.”
Rachel Kalmar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:22 a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rachel Kalmar: Future wearables will automatically control smart home environments
“And I think another path will be closing feedback loops automatically. So without the person in the loop, the mood ring that would monitor how much exposure I've had to light. And instead of going through the seasonal affective disorder, kind of a funk where y…”
Rachel Kalmar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:21 a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Prediction Not publicly verifiable
Ballinger: Wearables will generate two trillion data points in 2017
“Wearables are an interesting case because they'll generate about Two trillion data points this year.”
Brandon Ballinger Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:46 a16z Podcast | Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
Jan 17, 2019 negative
Opinion
Pande: Wearable health metrics like 10,000 steps lack clinical value
“In the case of wearables, you're dealing with something that's very broad and very shallow, and also often not very clinical, like 10,000 steps versus 9000 versus 11,000, that's largely just made up.”
Vijay Pande Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 11:42 a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
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