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Two views of tablets as a substitute for TV

October 02, 2013 by Benedict Evans

Every time I hear people say that TV really needs a big screen, and tablets are not a substitute, I think of this. 

There's a counter view too, of course, pungently expressed here by David Lynch. 

Very hard to predict quite how consumer behaviour will develop. I do remember how everyone needed keyboards, though. 

October 02, 2013 /Benedict Evans
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I work at Andreessen Horowitz ('a16z'), a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley that invests in technology companies. I try to work out what's going on and what will happen next. 

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