Mac

also referred to as: macs

includes Mac Mini

4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 14, 2021 by Benedict Evans · said 63 times in 25 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Everything said about Mac, oldest first

Jun 14, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Evans: iOS attack surface dwarfs Mac with one billion active devices
“There's, say, a hundred million Macs out there, and most people don't really install software on their Macs. They've got the software it came with, they installed Zoom, and maybe Office, or maybe Photoshop, and that's kind of it... Nobody is installing five ap…”
Benedict Evans Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 23:15 Paying attention to Apple again
Nov 2, 2021 negative
Insight
Evans: Porting desktop typing paradigms into VR repeats past platform mistakes
“And like, all this time you're spending showing how I can type on an AR screen, like, do you really think the future of this is going to be typing? That just feels like such sort of, let's take what we do on our Macs and put them in VR, which is so totally not…”
Benedict Evans Nov 2, 2021 ▶ 25:57 The Meta reality
Mar 1, 2022
Insight
Evans: Tech platform maturity reduces visible infrastructure complexity
“As you create all of this capability and all this infrastructure and plumbing, at a certain point that kind of gets abstracted away and standardized and so on into Windows and Mac and so on. And then the visible complexity goes down again.”
Benedict Evans Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 20:23 Talking about crypto
Feb 8, 2024 negative
Opinion
Devins: Vision Pro passthrough leaves physical Mac screen text fuzzy
“The one caveat is that the video pass-through, you can see it's a screen. So there's digital stuff you can't. The video pass-through, the physical tracking is perfect, but if I sit in front of my Mac and look at the screen, the text is fuzzy.”
Benedict Evans Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 2:58 Apple's Vision Pro
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