Benedict Evans

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans · 31 May 2026 podcast

I think because of marginal cost more than anything else.

You can't make it free and get 50 million users and then have a revenue model.

But we don't have those breakout things yet.

For consumer.

For consumer, no.

I keep getting these ads for voice recorders.

Somebody's selling a business card sized hardware voice recorder.

But I didn't get it.

I've got the voice recorder on my phone.

I suppose I've mentioned earlier, apparently, I mostly say it depends.

It is, yes.

I mean, I was a telecoms analyst and mobile analyst, and I kept all my phones up to a point.

Now they're kind of uninteresting.

But as you may remember, like before the iPhone, particularly outside the USA, there was this huge creativity and expansion in what phones looked like because everyone was basically innovating around a little teeny tiny gray square.

So everyone was trying to differentiate from everything else.

before it kind of results.

It's kind of like cars, actually.

It's like cars before street, before, like, wind tunnels.

Cars all look different.

And everyone's trying to innovate around, because you've got the same four wheels and the same engine, and everyone's trying to, like, differentiate based on, like, the shape.

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