Macintosh, every mention
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Token pricing
- ▶ 15:19 Benedict Evans It didn't matter if you liked windows or if you preferred the Amiga, if that was still around or the Mac, the users were all on PCs. 2 times in the scene
Unbundling ChatGPT
- ▶ 10:32 Benedict Evans It's only what was the original Mac.
Threads
- ▶ 2:27 Benedict Evans That's more like kind of comparing the Mac and the PC and the Commodore and the Altair and all that kind of stuff.
Vision Pro, two weeks on
- ▶ 3:26 Benedict Evans In that sense, it's actually, you could kind of compare it to the Macintosh, which launches in 1984 and was over 7000 dollars in today's money.
Apple Vision
- ▶ 12:40 Benedict Evans Um, and yes, you know, I tweeted a few days ago that the original iPhone, the original Mac that was like seven or eight grand in today's money. 2 times in the scene
Metaverse and crypto - beyond the BS
- ▶ 14:34 Benedict Evans Um, well, I mean, I said that well, like, the Lisa was an enormous amount of money, but like, the original Mac was, what, 660 dollars in 1985 money, which is a lot of money today, actually. 3 times in the scene
The Meta reality
- ▶ 8:21 Benedict Evans So the year the Mac was launched in the whole country, there were six million consumer PCs, you know, by the, you know, imagine it's the early nineties.
Paying attention to Apple again
- ▶ 23:15 Benedict Evans Like, the first of them is, there's, say, a hundred million Macs out there, and most people don't really install software on their Macs. 4 times in the scene
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 33:13 Benedict Evans And, you know, if one kind of pulls right back to the beginning of all of this stuff, um, when, I probably said this on a previous podcast, but when Apple launched the original Mac back in 1984, global PC sales of every kind of PC, so IBM…
What comes next?
- ▶ 13:51 Benedict Evans Exciting and interesting, but you know, when Apple launched the Mac in 1984, global PC sales were about six and a half million units.
The paradox of Apple
- ▶ 13:57 Benedict Evans The first difference is that they were trying to do exactly this experience model in the eighties, but the Mac was like 3000 dollars in today's money.
- ▶ 28:35 Benedict Evans It just sits on the Mac, on the Apple thing, and I wasn't good at, like, there are people who actually, like, have collections, and like a lithium-ion battery has to be, well, no, it's like you have to charge a lithium-ion battery every…
What the Apple and Facebook events tell us about their product cycles
- ▶ 19:56 Benedict Evans The original Mac in 1984 had 68 K, 68,000 transistors, and they sold 370,000 in the first year. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:01 Benedict Evans It's a little bit, it's, it's as though, well, you know, arguing against everything that I've just said, you could say, this is a bit like saying, our vision is the iPhone, so we won't ship anything until we've got the iPhone, so we won't…