2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 21, 2021 by Benedict Evans · said 10 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Jun 21, 2021 negative
Evans: Simple magazine PDFs worked commercially while expensive interactive redesigns failed
“The only things that I gather actually worked were people doing PDFs. In PDF of Model Railway World, they add zero extra cost, and suddenly they can sell globally, whereas the people trying to completely reinvent Vogue or Wired, suddenly you're spending double…”
Jul 5, 2021 negative
Evans: Emailing files flattens structured data to lowest common denominator
“And every time you email something, every time you save a file, you're kind of flattening out all of that context and that history and the structure data to it and turning it back into a PDF. It's like the lowest common denominator.”