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In mobile, disruption comes from above

In tech, the cheap weak product generally gets better quicker than the good expensive product gets cheaper. But in mobile, the good expensive product has generally got cheaper faster than the cheap, weak product got good

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How tech worksBenedict Evans25 February 2015
Podcast: Slack, messaging and institutional memory
Benedict Evans11 February 2015
In search of objects

The more that smartphones subsume other devices, the more we want new objects and experiences, and the more we try to make digital things physical and tangible

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DiscoveryBenedict Evans10 February 2015
Apple on privacy, security and identity

How far can Apple turn privacy into a competitive advantage? What might future products look like for which privacy is crucial?

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AppleBenedict Evans2 February 2015
Podcast: Apple and mobile
Benedict Evans30 January 2015
The home and the mobile supply chain

The smartphone supply chain is driving an explosion of innovation in the connected home. How does that split between software and commodity?

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IoTBenedict Evans28 January 2015
Chart dump: Apple's monster quarter
Benedict Evans27 January 2015
Where do mobile numbers come from?

A look inside the sausage machine - how, exactly, does one work out numbers for the mobile market?

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MobileBenedict Evans25 January 2015
Mobile platforms and technical debt

If assumptions made in 2000 killed Nokia, Palm and RIM 7 years later, what assumptions - what technical debt - do iOS and Android carry?

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MobileBenedict Evans14 January 2015
Resetting the score

Sometimes, an entire industry gets reset to zero, and all the entrenched advantages and parameters go away. The iPhone had that effect, and so did HMS Dreadnought. 

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How tech worksBenedict Evans13 January 2015
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