Japan

3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2021 by Benedict Evans · said 89 times in 28 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Jan 17, 2021 neutral
Insight
Evans: Western analysis of Chinese tech repeats 1990s Japanese iMode errors
“I think there's a real parallel to that and how people talk about a lot of Chinese services now, because you can't go there, even if you go there, you can't use it, you can't use the products, you can install it, but you can't, like, nothing works if you're no…”
Benedict Evans Jan 17, 2021 ▶ 3:30 Two Europeans talk about China
Jun 29, 2021 negative
Opinion
Evans: Japan Has Not Represented the Tech Future for 15 Years
“The whole thing of going to Japan, and they're like three to four years ahead in adoption, which ironically has not been the case for like 15 years, like nobody would go to Japan to see the future now.”
Benedict Evans Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 31:07 Tech in china, from inside and outside
Mar 20, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Evans: US, Japan, and South Korea now comprise only a quarter of traffic.
“One of the charts in my presentation is that like a quarter of global internet traffic is USA, Japan, South Korea combined. And then another quarter is India and a quarter is China and a quarter is everything else. So like where I was 10 years ago, it was like…”
Benedict Evans Mar 20, 2023 ▶ 15:17 The right questions to ask about TikTok
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