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

And then everything converges on one shape.

And it's kind of the same with phones.

Like, everyone, everything converged on one shape.

Before that, it was all this innovation.

So, yeah, like, I have, like, a whole bunch of PDAs and smartphones.

How many phones are we talking about?

I don't know, like 20 or 30.

So I have one of those.

You told me I'd have got the box down.

I have one of those Ericsson Sharkfin flip phones from like 98 or something, which is, again, like hardware design, visual design, trying to differentiate.

I've got an iMode phone from 2001 and a JFone phone from 2001 that has a camera.

So I came back from Japan in 2001, and my phone had a color screen and a camera.

And I just had endless client meetings, and people just wanted to see the phone with the color screen.

It was mind-blowing.

It didn't work outside Japan.

So I plunked it in the other day.

It still charges up.

I mean, clearly, I can't do anything with it.

And like...

I mean, there's a little bit of an analogy in there as well.

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