An article on the Apple ebook price fixing trial quoted Benedict Evans. “It is a kind of lying with statistics issue here,” he explained. “Depending on which averages you pick and which samples you pick, the number will move.”
An article on the FT's Tech Blog quoted Benedict Evans in its round-up of analyst opinion on Apple's new iOS 7 mobile operating system.
“It takes some getting used to and there are some odd decisions,” said Benedict, “but the functional changes are really good.”
Benedict Evans was quoted in an article rounding up analyst reactions to the announcement of Apple's iOS 7. "I think they maintained the status quo", he commented. In his view it has "not really changed anything fundamental."
Benedict Evans was quoted in John Gapper's column, a discussion of Google. “It’s easy for consumers to switch to another search engine, but it is difficult to make anything as good,” he said.
“Google is a massive machine learning project, and it’s been feeding the machine for a decade.”
Benedict Evans was quoted in an article discussing the narrowing gap in app downloads between Android and iOS devices. That narrowing is largely attributable to the greater number of Android devices in use; the gap between the two operating systems in apps downloaded per user is as great as ever, with iOS leading.
"When Steve Jobs launched the iPhone, they were five years ahead of anyone else,” said Benedict. “We’ve now reached the point where there is a viable competing product that has more or less matched Apple.”
“There are big holes in Google Now and in Siri, but they are both trying to get beyond typing a search or clicking on an app, to become a more intelligent version of how your phone might help you.”
An article on the health of ITV quoted Toby Syfret. Both ITV and the BBC have profited in recent years from the global demand for high-quality English language content.
“We see no let-up as to the possibilities of content opportunities,” he said. “There will be a continued need in developed markets but sales can also improve in developing markets like Brazil and India.”
An Enders Analysis report, Facebook Home and mobile [2013-034], was quoted in an article discussing the challenge for mobile operators created by the rise of free chat apps.
Users are increasingly replacing paid for SMS messages and voice calls with free services. "As an operator would see it, arbitraging between the price charged for data and that charged for SMS or voice, or indeed using Wi-Fi," the report said. "This is especially an issue in prepay and emerging markets, which tend not to have existing big SMS and data bundles."
Benedict Evans was quoted in an article discussing the future of Apple. The recent fall in the company's share price has precipitated another round of speculation over whether the company's best years are behind it.
“Tim Cook in particular and Apple in general have never given the impression of being a company that puts a lot of effort into smoothing out the quarters,” he said. “I don’t think they are going to manage the product cycle in order to deliver a nice flow of financials to Wall Street.”
Benedict Evans was quoted in article discussing Facebook's mobile strategy. "On the desktop, nobody will come along and do to Facebook what Facebook did to MySpace," he said.
“On mobile, that isn’t the case at all. They, like everyone else, are experimenting to work it out. It’s not clear what the right social experience is [on smartphones].”
An article discussing the challenges facing Tony Hall, the new Director General of the BBC, quoted Claire Enders. “Rebuilding the public’s trust is going to be Lord Hall’s top priority,” she said. “If he can increase the public’s publicly-stated trust in the BBC, he will find it much easier to get a 1, 2 or 3 per cent increase in the licence fee through parliament.”