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Evans: Kodak was once the best-selling US digital camera vendor
“What actually happens is, once it starts happening, Kodak go all in on digital cameras. At one point, they were the best-selling digital camera vendor in the USA, and if you look at their annual ports at the time, they think this is going to be great, because …”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 8:55 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
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Evans: AI labs do not continuously retrain models on live user queries
“They're not retraining the models all the time with the data. So you don't have that kind of runaway effect as, like, continuous flow and more queries produces, you know, better results.”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 33:34 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
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Evans: ChatGPT dominates consumer app rankings while competitors lag outside top 50
“ChatGPT is at the top of the outstore rank. Gemini bubbles between, like, 50 and a hundred. None of the others are in the top 100. Same in Google Trends. Same in the usage numbers. Same in the revenue.”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 28:50 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
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Evans: US Surveys Show Only Roughly 10% of People Use LLMs Daily
“You look at survey data, and I did this slide in the last presentation I did of, like, five different surveys from the US from late last year, earlier this year, and it's all roughly the same. It's like something around 10% Give or take three or four percent o…”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 34:34 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
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Evans: Mary Meeker's 1995 report incorrectly predicted email would dwarf web usage
“If you look at Mary Meeker's first big public internet report from 1995, she has a separate forecast for web users and email users, and she thought email users would be way bigger.”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 3:27 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
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