personal computing

also referred to as: pc

6 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 16, 2020 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about personal computing, oldest first

Nov 16, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Evans: Only 50 to 100 million global workers need heavy PC software
“There's probably 50 to a hundred million people whose actual job is doing that kind of thing. And everybody else have a PC to run email and SAP.”
Benedict Evans Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 25:01 The paradox of Apple
Nov 16, 2020 bullish
Opinion
Evans: The smartphone has completely disrupted the personal computer
“This isn't just a smartphone anymore. It's now grown and completely disrupted the PC.”
Benedict Evans Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 9:52 The paradox of Apple
Dec 22, 2020 neutral
Insight
Tech Operates on 15-Year Paradigm Shift Cycles
“The tech industry has sort of had one of these central agendas sort of every 15 years or so for the last, you know, probably since the sixties. So mainframes are the center of the tech industry from the sixties through to the seventies, then the PC from the mi…”
Benedict Evans Dec 22, 2020 ▶ 1:41 What comes next?
Oct 31, 2022
Insight
Evans: Smartphones Are Less Immersive Than Personal Computers
“That a smartphone is actually much less immersive than a PC. You're not sitting in front of it for three hours a day, just looking at that screen. Instead, it's something that you do in 5:10 seconds, you know, that you can pick up and put down. That it's with …”
Benedict Evans Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 8:13 How many metaverses?
Feb 12, 2023 bullish
Insight
Evans: Generative AI processing demands will reignite the PC hardware upgrade cycle
“Will I be able to tell the difference running Keynote and a web browser and email and Excel? No, I will not be able to tell. Would I be able to tell running Stable Dive Fusion? Oh, suddenly I get that image back in 10 seconds instead of 20 seconds. Oh no, that…”
Benedict Evans Feb 12, 2023 ▶ 30:38 ChatGPT versus Google
Aug 17, 2023 neutral
Insight
Evans: Generative AI lacks its 'Excel' moment
“And it says we don't have an Excel yet. You've got the PC as this sort of substrate. Suddenly everyone has a computer and it's only, it's amazingly cheap.”
Benedict Evans Aug 17, 2023 ▶ 10:24 Unbundling ChatGPT
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