How many ecosystems?

There are now close to 2bn smartphones on earth. How to ecosystem dynamics work at this scale? What kind of market share matters? It looks like the winner-takes-all dynamics are different, and seems clear that both Apple and Google have sustainable positions. 

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MobileBenedict Evans
The industrial internet

Presentation and video at GE's 'Minds + Machines' event in New York, talking about what GE calls 'the industrial internet'. Pretty much every single piece of machinery in the industrial capital base will have some sort of sensor or network connection. It seems clear that this will change things just as much as much as PCs and enterprise software did in the past.  

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Benedict Evans
Why Amazon Has No Profits

Amazon is a bundle - it’s hundreds of separate businesses, all running on the same common internal platforms. The big, established ones are highly profitable, but Amazon chooses to reinvest those profits into new businesses, so that reported net income for the company overall looks low. This masks the underlying success of the business model.

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AmazonBenedict Evans