Benedict Evans
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941 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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And there would always be like a public would get turned into PUBIC or something, you know, is always there'll be some some unfortunate correction, which is you know, is interesting to compare that now with error rates in ch in Chat GBT.
Um so there's a layer to which you know, exactly to your point, like we've gone through this before.
We went through this with telephones and cars and mobile phones and every technology shift there's this there are these kind of moments where people are really worried about it.
Um I mean I was joking s replied to somebody on LinkedIn yesterday who was talking about how, you know,
Stuff you say in podcasts is ephemeral and it fades away and no one will remember what it was and no one can hold you to account.
And I dug out a quote from um um Socrates explaining why writing stuff down is bad, because then you won't really have thought about it and know it and understand it.
So these are not old old arguments of old
it capital or is it kind of brand marketing?
Like habit, incumbency.
Like why is ChatGPT at the top of the App Store chart and has been for a year?
It's it's it's kind of interesting to me that there's so much buzz in tech around perplexity, which I think they just raised to like another like another step up.
Like fourteen or fifteen something today, I don't know.
Yes, yeah, there that's
They they don't break the top hundred in the app store.
And that's not exactly to our earlier point, that's ignor exactly what uh what tells you about adoption, but it's a pretty good indicator that nobody outside Villa Silicon Valley has ever heard of this thing.
Um
And open hours at the top.
Why is open hour at the top and Claude also not in the top one hundred?
I mean, you look at the chart.
Maybe they're like seventy-five, but you know, I ran the chart the other day.
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