Benedict Evans
Tesla, software and disruption
When Nokia people looked at the first iPhone, they saw a not-great phone with some cool features that they were going to build too, being produced at a small fraction of the volumes they were selling. They shrugged. “No 3G, and just look at the camera!” When many car company people look at a Tesla
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Software development in 2021 and beyond
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8 min read · 63 saves · Jan 14th · 2020 is now – finally – hindsight. It was a year of unprecedented disruption – how businesses connected with their employees and customers transformed nearly overnight. We saw organizations rapidly…
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Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption
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4 min read · 289 saves · Jan 13th · Phoebe Weston · Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis
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Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in the industry
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1 min read · 198 saves · Jan 24th · Published: 2021-01-23Things I've changed my mind on:Things I now believe, which past me would've squabbled with:Typed languages are better when you're working on a team of people with various…
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The Great Software Stagnation
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2 min read · 95 saves · Jan 1st · Jonathan Edwards · Software is eating the world. But progress in software technology itself largely stalled around 1996. Here’s what we had then, in chronological order: LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, Oracle…
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4 min read · 214 saves · 2020-12-13 · Computing has always moved forwards in jumps of scale, but smartphones reach everyone on earth, so what’s the next jump? AV and VR? Cloud, machine learning and crypto? Or is that the wrong model to…
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5 min read · 81 saves · Feb 18th · Should internet platforms ‘pay for news content’, and is this a competition problem, or is this really a tax on links, and a subsidy?
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Shopify — Benedict Evans
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3 min read · 64 saves · Feb 17th · Consumers spent $120bn with Shopify merchants in 2020 - double the figure for 2019 and over 40% of Amazon’s competing business. What does that tell us about competing with Amazon? Problems that were…
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Platforms, bundling and kill zones — Benedict Evans
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4 min read · 50 saves · 2020-12-21 · What does it mean when Google, Microsoft or Apple turn your whole company into a feature? Where do we let a tech giant innovate and where do we call the anti-trust lawyers? What does it mean both to…
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