Android, every mention
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every year 2021 anyone Benedict Evans 73Lillian Li 2
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What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 40:17 Benedict Evans That's when Android came out and the iPhone, which sales really exploded. 2 times in the scene
The Meta reality
- ▶ 5:21 Benedict Evans The iPhone and to mostly the same extent on Android, Facebook and everybody else are sort of on the sufferance of what Apple and Google want to let you do. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:50 Benedict Evans Much harder to recommend somebody buy an Android watch over an Apple watch, and that's because of all of that integration, that custom semiconductor, all the stuff that only Apple can do. 3 times in the scene
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 22:26 Benedict Evans Is it open so that people will be able to trust it, which was the Android argument or the Linux argument, and so that people can work on it?
- ▶ 39:25 Benedict Evans And then iOS and Android are another wave of that.
Apple's metronome
- ▶ 19:19 Benedict Evans Um, and the challenge with that is you look at Android, and in particular you look at Chinese Android, where Google isn't in control either, and it's kind of tough to see stuff that you couldn't do under Apple's rules. 2 times in the scene
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 24:27 Benedict Evans I mean, it's a completely different example is if you've only ever used an iPhone, and you try and use an Android, or you've only really ever used Android, and you try and use an iPhone, you will sit and swear and say, this thing is a… 2 times in the scene
Tech in china, from inside and outside
- ▶ 48:07 Lillian Li And I think that's because when I look around, um, relative to, you know, in, uh, the UK or SF, where I would say, you know, at least like, 70% of people around me is using an Apple phone, and maybe 30% is using Android, um, 2 times in the scene
Paying attention to Apple again
- ▶ 9:28 Benedict Evans And some of it is, yeah, it'll be useful if I have an Android phone.
- ▶ 12:22 Benedict Evans Um, and Apple and Google used to be friends before Google decided to create Android.
App stores: arguing like it's 2009
- ▶ 2:30 Benedict Evans The first of them is, um, the apps Apple, and to some extent, or not quite the same extent, Android, has what's called a sandboxed app store. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:21 Benedict Evans And so Google has been sort of systemically making Android more secure over time and more locked out over time.
- ▶ 24:04 Benedict Evans And, you know, this was, like, a theoretical issue, like, five years ago, at least, this is why Google created Android, because they were afraid of Microsoft doing this. 2 times in the scene