The Ledger

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Insight
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…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:44 a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Joel de la Garza: CISOs deploy Chromebooks to eliminate endpoint antivirus
“So when you talk to some of the more forward-leaning CISOs in large organizations, they're rolling out hundreds or thousands of Chromebooks, right? They don't need to run antivirus on those endpoints.”
Joel de la Garza Mar 1, 2019 ▶ 10:30 Security Markets: The Lay of the Land
Assertion Contradicted
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.”
Niels Provos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:57 a16z Podcast | The State of Security
Opinion
Evans: Adding Android apps to Chromebooks undermines Chrome OS advantages
“Putting Android apps onto Chromebook is kind of paradoxical because you turn it back and suddenly you don't have the advantage that Chrome has over Android anymore.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:19 a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
Insight
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.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:25 a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
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