Fox: In five years, kids will expect all devices to understand voice
“Across humanoid robots, consumer electronics, like, you're gonna see voice as this dimension that you just, like, expect And what, the example I think about is, you know, when you see pictures of, like, kids, like, trying to, like, swipe on TVs or something, b…”
Fox: Consumer voice hardware and software applications will surge within a year
“I think over the next year, we'll see a lot of, a lot more consumer applications, hardware and software, where voice is a core dimension. So, toys, games consumer electronics”
Nariyawala: No Ubiquitous Consumer Electronics Device Costs Over $2,000
“There is literally zero ubiquitous consumer electronics device that's priced higher than 2000 dollars. Beyond 2000 dollars, you pay for professional equipment. So either in a prosumer space or only thing consumers spend higher than that is cars.”
Kalinowski: Warfare will outpace consumer electronics innovation over the next two years
“I think there's probably more change in war than there is in consumer electronics in the next two years, for example.”
Adcock: Humanoid robot manufacturing resembles consumer electronics, not cars
“Automotive manufacturing is like the most complex systems I've ever seen in my entire life all put together to manufacture cars. It's like hundreds of times harder than manufacturing consumer electronics. Like, we manufacture consumer electronics a lot by hand…”
Khatri: Hardware differs from fashion because scale requires proprietary tech partnerships
“So I personally think technology works in a very different way. It's not like fashion where you just Create a product and sell at any price point. Technology, you need an access to partners. We were talking about all proper, a lot of proprietary things. So I t…”
Sharma: Smart glasses will be the key hardware form factor to watch
“I seriously feel that this will be the form factor to watch out for. Yes. And there, so if somebody new watching this wants to get into the industry, this is the industry.”
Amit Khatri: Indian founders can build hardware 30% to 40% cheaper than Western peers
“For something what they're producing for a hundred dollar, A similar great quality product Indian entrepreneur could build for, let's say, 30, 40% cheaper than them.”
Taylor: Agent-native hardware requires consumer software experiences to lead first
“I have a sense that we will, it will take a little while to see agent native consumer experiences and agent native devices. And the hard part about particularly consumer electronics is you kind of need the consumer experiences to lead a little bit, to have the…”
Berdichevsky: Tesla's first Gigafactory exceeded total global consumer electronics battery demand
“When Tesla built the first Gigafactory, it was it's, was bigger than all of the demand for all consumer electronics at the time.”
Marshall: Planet built its first satellite prototype using consumer electronics chips
“We built a test one at Rainbow this community house in the garage. We added a camera system, then we added all the other systems, radios and so on to make it a working satellite. Leveraging consumer electronics, not exactly a phone like we'd use in phone sat, …”
Evans: Consumers view breakthrough hardware advances with blasé indifference
“It's how we react with, I mean, it's not just that, it's how we react with every new piece of consumer electronics now, like, you know, the new Samsung phone, the new Huawei phone, the new Elgin product or whatever it is. Oh, another diamond. Yeah, whatever.”
Agarwal: Meetings market matches consumer electronics, exceeding most nations' GDPs
“It's big, it's equal to the same size of consumer electronics globally, if you believe it. Bigger than the GDP of every country, except 17.”
De La Garza: Consumer electronics will eventually feature standard security stamps
“I think we're going to get to a point where our consumer electronics will have that kind of security stamp on the back. That'll be based on some kind of measurable, meaningful standards.”
Dixon: $200 is the magical price point for consumer electronics adoption
“It's generally considered a magical price point for consumer electronics.”
Evans: Panasonic is getting out of consumer electronics
“Panasonic is getting out of consumer electronics.”
Evans: Sony has been failing in consumer electronics for 20 years
“Sony has, you know, been failing in this for 20 years.”
Consumer electronics cannot be manufactured outside of Shenzhen and Guangdong
“There's not infrastructure and subcontractors and other vendors to make consumer electronics outside of the Shenzhen, Guangdong province. There's just not in, you can't go to another country.”
Consumer electronics is venture capital's hardest sector due to massive capital needs
“So I think consumer electronics is one of the hardest things to do in the venture ecosystem right now, partially because at some point you need a huge slug of money to go big.”
Selling standalone hardware without recurring revenue is no longer viable for startups
“So for us, when we look at consumer electronics, one, we think that single cell hardware is probably not viable right now. So there has to be some sort of recurring revenue model.”
DJI is a $10 billion consumer electronics company showing no slowdown
“But also, let's be super clear, you know, DGI is just a consumer electronics company. It's a ten billion dollar company. And they're showing no signs of stopping.”