India, every mention
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Token pricing
- ▶ 8:42 Benedict Evans So everyone has an iPhone, everyone pays their, in India, a dollar a month, in America, a hundred dollars a month.
Ai eats the world
- ▶ 29:47 Benedict Evans This is this great kind of puzzle here, because, I mean, I wrote something about this in the summer when I went, I had a trip to India, and I had to get, I had to get a visa, and this is quite a complicated thing of the different documents…
The magic customer
- ▶ 41:39 Leonard Brody How do we build audience in China and in South Asia, in Japan, and, and in India?
The right questions to ask about TikTok
- ▶ 15:25 Benedict Evans And then another quarter is India and a quarter is China and a quarter is everything else.
ChatGPT and the Imagenet Moment
- ▶ 17:03 Benedict Evans So I asked the question about, you know, what British conquest of India in the, in the 18th century. 2 times in the scene
Lighting and tech diffusion
- ▶ 22:25 Benedict Evans Now, this is, um, not the best kind of number, because A, it includes, like, 50 or sixty million people in China, in India, who are not paying very much, and it also is apparent, I think they're double counting, um, there's a bunch of…
Three ways to say no
- ▶ 11:42 Benedict Evans If you created an app that let you spam every, send a message to every WhatsApp user in India five times a day, am I obliged to connect to that?
Netflix isn't a tech company
- ▶ 38:31 Benedict Evans What do you think about India? 3 times in the scene
Ukraine
- ▶ 34:03 Benedict Evans Whereas if you do look at the shipping, if you were to look at the trade going to India, say, now there's a whole argument about like, it wasn't guns, you know, there were freighters going to India selling stuff.
How to think about tech
- ▶ 3:14 Benedict Evans Questions of solar and the environment and China and India and regulation and what all the kind of the broader consequences might be.
Regulation - Who will notice?
- ▶ 26:28 Benedict Evans Capital intensive things in Europe, in Southeast Asia, in India, in America.
Telcos and Tesla
- ▶ 5:32 Benedict Evans Or in India, it's two pounds a month for voice data and SMS because you've had this massive price war, um, driven by, um, reliance.
Creativity and Optimism
- ▶ 45:22 unnamed speaker Well, we did get, we have got caught up in one of them, which is, uh, the, the Indian batches of, uh, some of the Indian batches of AstraZeneca, of, of
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 4:30 Benedict Evans So they've got a lot of invoices and those are all sitting in a probably Oracle database and they're all being processed by something over 1500 people in a building somewhere in India.
Tech in china, from inside and outside
- ▶ 14:02 Benedict Evans Um, and then when you go to, say, India, then things start getting quite a bit different, in that, you know, you've got very different demographics, and, you know, there's
Who's in the office? Notes on a year of remote work.
- ▶ 21:27 Benedict Evans But also, of course, although it's daytime in India, which is not necessarily a coincidence given some of the people who are doing this.
Shopify and digital transformation
- ▶ 9:23 Benedict Evans Like they're probably an Oracle database and there's a thousand people in India processing them.
Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
- ▶ 34:03 Benedict Evans Never mind, nobody in Europe, nobody in India, no one anywhere else on earth can join.
Telling stories with charts
- ▶ 2:37 Benedict Evans So, A, I don't really know very much about the Indian internet market, and my audience either knows much more about it than me, because I'm talking to people in India, or they don't need to know many more, much more than, you know, there's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:26 Benedict Evans I even don't have a chart showing you how GEO conquered India, because that's not really the point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:37 Benedict Evans But like, I know what happened to Indian data pricing. 2 times in the scene
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 7:12 Benedict Evans So a couple of years ago, a lot of people were saying, oh my God, WeChat, WeChat's going to win in India.
- ▶ 11:50 Benedict Evans Well, it's interesting to look at some of the conversation that came out of India around how WeChat failed in India, which was essentially not a digital story or even a China India story. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:44 Benedict Evans China and India are not, even though they've got vastly bigger populations for all sorts of reasons, like historical reasons that are again rather painful that we all know about.
- ▶ 27:25 Benedict Evans Um, India has. 10 times in the scene
The FTC and Facebook
- ▶ 21:50 Benedict Evans They have massive problems with rumors in India, for example, and people forming mobs and killing each other based on rumors on WhatsApp.
The acceleration of ecommerce habits
- ▶ 29:23 Benedict Evans And the, the answer was somebody had bought a skin whitening cream in India that contained so much mercury.
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 4:29 Benedict Evans A couple of years ago, there was this whole thing in India of lynch mobs forming based on wild rumors that were spreading on WhatsApp, which was super interesting because WhatsApp is not, doesn't have an algorithm and doesn't have…
- ▶ 31:43 Toni Cowan-Brown And what does it look like when it's Europeans or it's Chinese people or Indian people using the software?
How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- ▶ 34:12 Benedict Evans And you can, again, you can generalize a bit too much, you know, clearly everyone has their own local laws, but, you know, by default, it was the sort of American cultural ideas of how free speech worked, and how censorship worked, and…
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 20:57 Benedict Evans Again, there's another sort of aspect to this that I was going to think, think about a lot, which is particularly as I look at Chinese and Indian markets, which is if you think about the sort of the history of the last 20 years, um, what… 5 times in the scene