Photoshop

5 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2022 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about Photoshop, oldest first

Sep 19, 2022 neutral
Insight
Evans: Retrofitting Collaboration Onto Legacy Binary Software Requires Building New Products
“It's really difficult to add that real time, multiple people working on it, multiple people collaborating at the same time to like a 50 meg binary file that was never intended for that and software that was never built for that. And so you'd almost kind of hav…”
Benedict Evans Sep 19, 2022 ▶ 13:20 Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
Sep 19, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Evans: Figma will grow to replace all of Photoshop and Illustrator
“This is clearly an existential question because this thing is going to grow. You know, it is going to grow, expand and take over all of Photoshop and all of Illustrator. It's going to be the better way of doing that in a way that Google docs never really did f…”
Benedict Evans Sep 19, 2022 ▶ 12:49 Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
Sep 19, 2022 positive
Insight
Evans: Figma expands the market by trading tool depth for browser collaboration
“It does less than Photoshop or Illustrator on one axis, but it has this whole bunch of new stuff on another axis and so pulls this whole new market in.”
Benedict Evans Sep 19, 2022 ▶ 6:55 Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
Dec 5, 2022 positive
Insight
Evans: Generative AI will not end art any more than Photoshop did
“I think there's a, you can, one can dismiss very quickly the concept, oh my god, this is like the end of art. No, no more than Photoshop was. It's another form. It's another thing that you can do.”
Benedict Evans Dec 5, 2022 ▶ 21:12 ChatGPT and the Imagenet Moment
Mar 3, 2024
Insight
Evans: Massive scale transforms generative AI tools qualitatively compared to Photoshop
“There's a difference when you do, something can be the same theoretically, just at greatest in principle, but a much greater scale and practical and accessible and everything else. And in fact, making something much greater scale and much more accessible, but …”
Benedict Evans Mar 3, 2024 ▶ 18:27 Google Gemini and AI bias
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 100 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.