The Ledger
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Brody: Generational demographics are marketing fiction except for the pre-iPhone divide
“Demography is made up nonsense that isn't true. And I think it's often done to sell consulting services and to make marketing seem like they're creating generations. The truth is, I don't really believe that with one exception, which I'll come back to, that th…”
Benedict Evans: Banning facial recognition is absurd because ML is commoditized
“But in general, machine learning has become a commodity very quickly which is sort of the absurdity of people saying, well, we have to ban face recognition, or you can ban it, but that won't work. Cause it's just a commodity technology.”
Evans: Fortnite seems to have mostly faded away
“Fortnite, although that seems to have disappeared now, or mostly faded away.”
Evans: Pharmacy Benefit Managers exist purely to skim off the healthcare industry
“There's this weird thing Americans created called PBM. Is it PBM, the pharmaceutical, the kind of, there's this Entity that basically sits between the insurers and pharmaceutical companies and aggregates orders and bargains. And this is like a, you know, multi…”
Evans: Shein's $3 prices stem from scale and manufacturing, not slave labor
“And it's not that everyone's slaves. It's just that it's, you know, it's made at massive scale in a different manufacturing model. And it's, you know, it's a certain level of quality.”
Evans: Bloomberg will never be disrupted because tech engineers cannot access it
“Well, the thing that occurred to me sometimes is that, you know, Bloomberg, for example, will never be disrupted because the only people who could disrupt it can't see it because it's 24,000 dollars a year. So nobody who knows what it is or really understands …”
Evans: Twitter Failed at Stories Because It Is a 'Clown Show'
“Obviously Twitter tried to do it, but because Twitter is a clown show, it didn't work, but, you know, other people can make this stuff work.”
Evans: The concept of owning your personal data is logically incoherent nonsense
“Statements like, well, you should own your data, and maybe a third category, in that it is actually, this is actually logically... Incoherent. It's gibberish. It's nonsense. It means nothing.”
Evans: Epic Games' legal fight against Apple was driven by pure greed
“Epic wanted, A, not to pay the 30%, even though Epic has no marginal cost and was making loads of money, so that was pure greed on their part, and B, they wanted to run their own store so they could sell all sorts of different things, and so they could have al…”
Benedict Evans says Statista scrapes data incorrectly without context or sourcing
“There's this website called Statista, which scrapes other people's websites, copies the numbers in, copies them in wrong without telling you when they were calculated or what you're actually, what's being defined or who did them.”