Germany, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Benedict Evans 36Toni Cowan-Brown 5
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Germany comes up
Looking for AI use-cases
- ▶ 20:29 Benedict Evans So you can say, you know, what would, I don't know who their customers are, what would good slogans that use, um, Gillette's tone of voice be if I was targeting men in their forties in Germany?
Google Gemini and AI bias
- ▶ 24:20 Toni Cowan-Brown It reminds me of, God, Buzzfeed did one of their listicles of show me what Barbie would look like from around the world, and obviously they ended up with a Barbie from Sudan carrying a rifle, Barbie from Germany that's dressed in what…
Breaking and remaking media
- ▶ 18:12 Benedict Evans So not just like all the UK broadcasters, but like all the French, German, Spanish, Italian broadcasters as well, or certainly in that range.
Threads
- ▶ 30:13 Benedict Evans You know, the UK has got as much e-commerce as far as the Germany combined, for example.
- ▶ 37:48 Benedict Evans So there's an analysis of, um, the economic miracle in Germany after the war, which is to say that
Three ways to say no
- ▶ 15:04 Toni Cowan-Brown Well, do you need it in Germany or do you need it actually in Berlin or actually do you need it down the street from you?
- ▶ 26:35 Benedict Evans And it's one that Facebook makes very often that Facebook doesn't feel it has the legitimacy to decide the basis of political discourse in Germany or Spain or Japan, and they don't want to.
Netflix isn't a tech company
- ▶ 35:01 Benedict Evans So UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy combined, those broadcasters are only spending 10 to fifteen billion dollars.
Ukraine
- ▶ 15:46 Benedict Evans Well, I, again, I'm not a defense analyst, but it's Germans are doubling their defense budget. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:43 Benedict Evans I think it was Anthony Beaver, and he wrote his book about Stalingrad, um, in the introduction, he said that he was on a train in Russia, and he happened to be in the camp apartment with a fairly senior Russian, a Soviet officer, this… 2 times in the scene
Regulation - Who will notice?
- ▶ 25:01 Benedict Evans If you're making an enterprise software company or a home delivery company or an e-commerce business in Germany, do you, do you care?
Tech in china, from inside and outside
- ▶ 13:58 Benedict Evans More or less the same in France, Germany, and America, with some alterations. 2 times in the scene
Bezos and the Amazon machine
- ▶ 4:17 Benedict Evans So when Germany does shoes, they hire five people, 4 times in the scene
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 14:24 Benedict Evans In Britain, or in Germany, you couldn't just take that retail model, and put it in another country, and expect it to work, because like the whole market structure is different, and it turns out that the thing that you would go to for one…
- ▶ 22:13 Benedict Evans It's even worse, even more dramatic than what happened in Germany. 2 times in the scene
There's no such thing as data
- ▶ 1:50 Benedict Evans and so how do we stop our citizens' data leaving the country, and how does Germany stop German people's data going other places, and China's going to have all the data, and AI is the future, and China's got all the AI, and American…
- ▶ 20:15 Benedict Evans Someone told me that in the early sort of stages of GDPR discussions, there was a proposal that Germany should have its own proxy server. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:21 Benedict Evans So Germany does, Germany has, um, photo IDs, and so does France. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:57 Toni Cowan-Brown Um, it brings me back to this story of, um, votafile storage that in the UK, the votafile, similar to in Germany, cannot leave the country.
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 28:42 Benedict Evans Do I need to see another 50 pictures of, you know, French interiors and Japanese ceramics and, like, weird German fifties churches?
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 31:57 Toni Cowan-Brown Um, for failing to regulate hate speech, um, to the satisfaction of German authorities.
How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- ▶ 0:27 Toni Cowan-Brown We've got the invest, ongoing investigation in Europe against Google as well for anti-competitive behavior, and actually I just read that recently Italy has also announced it's investigating Google for abuse in the advertising space, and…
- ▶ 33:55 Benedict Evans Just as, you know, cars are German, cars are French.
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 9:48 Benedict Evans Whereas, you know, as I said, if you want to launch a local consumer business in Europe, you can't do kind of Germany, Milan and Paris.
- ▶ 15:52 Benedict Evans Um, on the credit card adoption in Germany is notoriously extremely low, which is a kind of a big barrier to 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:09 Benedict Evans and then you'll have to be a different thing again to be in France and a different thing again to be in Germany.