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What comes after smartphones? — Benedict Evans
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80% of the world’s adult population has a smartphone now, so how many things can we do with that? That’s what ‘software is eating the world’ means. But part of that is also that Walmart wasn’t built by car people, from Detroit. It was built by retailers. Sam Walton was born a decade after the Model T, and this year’s MBA class was born the year Net... See more
Benedict Evans • Outgrowing Software
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But again, tech will change everything, but once the dust has settled the questions that matter will mostly be retail questions, not tech questions. What’s the product, how do you know about it and how do you get it? Those are retail, brand and marketing questions.
Benedict Evans • Outgrowing Software
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However, this made me ponder how might we evaluate hardware nowadays. In my view, there are three main segments:
- Reinventing: creating new paradigms through new forms, while replacing existing models of thinking and doing.
- e.g. TV, Smartphones, Laptops, GPS
- Improving: repackaging or wrapping a known experience into a familiar form.
- e.g. Smart Watch,
Itay Dreyfus • What’s the Future of AI Hardware?
And just as consumers shift to new mindsets, so too does industry. Over the past 20 years, nearly every industry has hired, restructured, and re-oriented itself around mobile workflows, products, or business lines. This transformation is as significant as any hardware or software innovation — and, in turn, creates the business case for subsequent i... See more
Matthew Ball • A Framework for the Metaverse — MatthewBall.vc
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Every year, consumer hardware benefits from better and more capable sensors, longer battery life, more sophisticated/diverse haptics, richer screens, sharper cameras, etc. We also see an ever-expanding number of smart devices, such as watches, VR headsets (and soon, AR glasses). All of these advances enhance and extend user immersion, even though s... See more
Matthew Ball • Hardware and the Metaverse — MatthewBall.vc
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But if the religion of technology preaches anything, it celebrates progress and evolution. And so we ask, what comes next? What do we optimize for beyond numbers? How do we bring more of the world around us back into the software in front of us?
The Browser Company • Optimizing for Feelings
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