web browser

5 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about web browser, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
Insight
On mobile, the web browser is just one of many channels
“For 20 years, the web, the internet and the web were the same thing. And that's not the case on mobile. On the desktop, you had this box on the screen And everything happened in that box. And there was a little bit of fighting 15 years ago about who got to mak…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:42 a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Evans: Mobile operating systems replaced web browsers as core platforms
“One of them is it becomes ever more apparent that on mobile it's a smartphone OS that's the platform, or the OS that's the platform, whereas on, like, the desktop internet you targeted a web browser.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:12 a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Insight
Evans: Mobile innovation has permanently shattered the monolithic web browser paradigm
“We had 20 years of the web browser mouse keyboard, and that was like the monolith for how the internet worked. And now we've broken that apart, and we've got all these different shards all kind of floating around and landing in different places and being juggl…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:25 a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Evans: Enterprise Web Application Transition Took Two Decades
“It took 20 years for it to really become a thing for all of those enterprise apps to move.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:51 a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
Jan 15, 2026
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Marc Andreessen says he rejected browser censorship in 1993
“I turned down the opportunity at the time in 1993 to implement censorship in the web browser you know, which would have been a completely different and, you know, very dystopian world.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 2:25 Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
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