Consumer PCs
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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Evans: Fewer than 1 billion consumer PCs vs 5-6 billion smartphones exist
“So even today, there's less than a billion consumer PCs on earth, and there's something between five and six billion smartphones.”
Evans: Only 20M to 40M consumer PCs existed before mid-90s internet boom
“There were only sort of 20, 30, forty million consumer PCs on Earth when the internet first started taking off in the mid-nineties.”
Evans: Global smartphone users outnumber consumer PCs roughly five to one
“There's four to four and a half billion people with a smartphone on Earth today. There's probably seven to eight hundred million consumer PCs on Earth.”
Benedict Evans: Consumer PCs were historically used for casual tasks
“The idea that there's something wrong with a tablet because people spend most of their time playing games and looking at Facebook and doing email. Well, what did you think consumer PCs were used for the last 15 years? Well, and, of course, they weren't writing…”