Four Trends in Consumer Tech

[@swyxTV]

“can you imagine watching your favorite movies from the 70s and 80s and it features brands from today?” i can, Connie, i just don’t want it, please dont enable it

[@vivekbagaria3324]

She is so excited to show advertisements. Strange.

[@speedoflink]

@@vivekbagaria3324 Megacorps need to continue their unlimited growth somehow, right?

[@thebritishindian1]

Agreed, I don’t want new ads on old movies

[@MrMindShattering]

I stopped listening to her after she said that.

[@acidzburns]

I got to agree. That is a truly repugnant idea. As if viewing ads isnt enough now.

[@neozhang745]

Watcking this vedio just want to make me cry. How many people actully understand this and can see the future! Salute to Chan!!!1

[@waldopardon7943]

lmao its so funny when she's like "imagine yourself lying in bed at night scrolling thru ur phone ready to go to sleep and thinking wow... I would love to buy a box of oranges"

[@tma2444]

lmao

[@pressiyamu8976]

She really is working her soul for a paycheck. I plan to work hard and smart to be wealthy. But I promise everyone in the KZbin community, in this comments, and the next Gen that I will use My money power to fight against a future like this.

[@replikantenklaar]

When I am paying for an audio book, I do not expect any advertising, that's why I am paying. They tried free books with print advertising in the past which failed.

[@zachalbers6628]

Interesting video overall, but just mentioning the Tech Crunch article "The Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps a month" and using that to justify super apps being the future, was INCREDIBLY misleading! I read the article, and found that the "Majority" was just 51% and consisted of predominantly people 35+. The other 49% were downloading quite a few more apps!! I don't see any signs of super apps becoming as big in western countries as soon as she is predicting. Both the Apple and Android developer communities are still seeing large revenue growth even these last couple years.

[@facundomiranda3391]

There are millions of new apps every year.... It would be nice to see how those downloads are distributed and what is the "retention". Superapps tend to have a huge retention and take advantage of the powerful distribution of the app to create new business and bring new revenue streams.

[@SportsIncorporated]

We'll be shopping 24/7. In our sleep.

[@doyoufeelthemusic]

omg, please don't give Connie Chan any ideas. She'll do it, and people will be buying actual oranges in their dreams.

[@SportsIncorporated]

@salkdhfpoahergpoahre I've been watching and read longevity studies. Fruit juice is sugar. Something you probably don't want.

[@awolowiecki720]

I’m so excited to be forcefully inundated w dystopian high-tech consumerism

[@locpham4993]

Rip we’re already in a dystopia and it’s only getting worse

[@dhawaljain7860]

Highly relevant even after 2 years!

[@PRepublicOfChina]

There is one super app that no one has built yet... the OASIS from Ready Player One!

[@ApplicoInc]

“We're gonna see more tech and software permeate our physical worlds." Absolutely agree! These new integrations will be underpinned by the emergence of new mega development platforms like a unified automobile OS (e.g. Android Auto).

[@ArtemMoskvin]

So what exactly was the problem with majority people downloading zero apps per month?

[@vivekbagaria3324]

Everything becoming commerce is a bleak future

[@samuelkagwe1604]

Really insightful!

[@SirMathur]

Great work again folks - embedded commerce and economies of scope are very interesting!

[@McMarvin42]

Touting surveillance capitalism like it will “save us”... Save who? The consumers or the bank accounts of the owners?

[@OnsoDev]

Don't like the idea of super apps, Google is similar just has separate apps for all different services.

[@JoeMathew]

OMG which is the app she was talking about, with podcasts, I need to blacklist it. This is really really sneaky. I hope people realise what's going on... Imagine someone who lost his sleep due to a spending habit and getting in to debts(which happens a lot) trying to improve sleep by listening to a sincere-looking podcast about sleeping better - there's nothing worse that can happen to him.

[@AmarMTV]

Companies getting more efficient in extracting money from consumers will likely widen the socio-economic gap even further.

[@stojanovicslobodan76]

the future is very sad with all this technology and she speak with such great enthusiasm :(

[@young-ceo]

I think "micro" app is coming

[@mawzonee]

They get our info and make millions, what do we get?

[@seavista4810]

Extreme Invasion of Privacy...

[@fractaldonut-embodythrough4169]

We have to make something for ourselves. I'm chewing on this idea currently. Big tech isn't interested in people beyond the products we can buy. We have to imagine the interaction we want and make it happen. I'm currently looking fort programmers and want to share ideas and collaborate with others. I'm tired of being treated like a consumer 24/7.

[@salvadorlucar773]

Where do you buy your Kool-Aid? I want it.

[@johnswanson217]

This is why I can't really respect what contemporary marketers do. Completely spoiling possibilities of beautiful technologies.

[@nathanielgreen4689]

Interesting that advertising is referred to as something people want to see. And I wonder what other cultural or economic factors play in to the superapp popularity in Asia that might be missing in North America for ex.

[@moqpoq]

SUPER APP should be built on the open-source and blockchain tech with a high focus on privacy and the ability to be decentralized. Otherwise, we will end up with a monopoly - BIG BROTHER.

[@paultoensing2370]

So in China does opting out of this technology negatively impact your social credit rating? If you don’t want to do or think what emperor Xi wants to do or think, can this help the police apprehend you or weld you in your home if they think you shouldn’t be spreading a new virus? Living in Hong Kong and traveling often to China (until lately) I can see some super app downsides. Can it assist an authoritarian regime and suppress or help eliminate anyone the party finds undesirable or capable of introducing an open minded opinion? My guess: Absolutely without a doubt. So in China: Sold!

[@Andrew-gt5of]

This has to be the most severe Tech Kool-Aid drinking case ever published.

[@facundomiranda3391]

I was thinking this Yesterday!! i cant believe it... i bought some books on taking advantange of existing networks and distribution. Seems to me that Paretto Law is going to be powerful in the long term than what we have ever seen

[@fatpen9731]

Can you share the book names?

[@facundomiranda3391]

@@fatpen9731 of course. 1) Networkologies by Christopher Vitale 2) Selling Through Someone Else by Michael Heald 3) Tech Titans of China by Rebecca Fanning

[@fatpen9731]

@@facundomiranda3391 thanks a lot

[@mfoniso10]

how do you use facial recognition to look for guns?

[@saidurgaa8818]

I wonder why this video is not like by many people it's worthy

[@pfcwells522]

As a techie I get it but she's just highlighting the conviences of of making ppl buy more stuff. Also, totally leaving out the part out the ability to practice privacy. But that not sexy to the marketing folks.

[@JideOgunleye]

Quite interesting, particularly the concept of audio first

[@johnnguyen6607]

I LOVE CONNIE CHAN! so informative

[@andrewhopkins7718]

I miss mindless moments.

[@Amro_Dubai]

113 views, glad to be the first to comment. the reason I could agree with her is because of Wechat.... it's kind of a bore that us humans are getting bored of apps. I remember the days when I was on the store just browsing through... but great insight generally speaking.

[@TheGrandDurian]

The after-school education sector that you find in much of the developing world is getting ripe for disruption as 5G-AR/VR-machine learning technologies converge. Researching this as I did for the American Cultural Association in Morocco, I can say it has tremendous potential for poor youth and adults to improve their lives. However, one significant downside is that consumerist subconscious messages will feed off the data from the students.

[@igorsaraiva]

great presentation. At the beginning, I thought that the trends presented were so obvious. But when she was explaining, it gave a whole new vision

[@abdallahjarkas]

Please stop, this is madness! all of you will reach a point where you will regret it!

[@locpham4993]

Gg 1984 is here bruh

[@abdallahjarkas]

@@locpham4993 1984 will look like a comedy show compared to what is coming

[@KC53557]

So does this mean Uber should not be getting out of the Eats business?

[@lennonotaku]

COOMSUME

[@ZacchaeusNifong]

"The average consumer now downloads zero apps per month." then.... "how do we fix this PROBLEM?" this is wrong.

[@jinseng2003]

Great presentation! She's a really good speaker.

[@macberry4048]

I like the idea of apps combining like the hotel and food delivery app. The future of podcasts does seem like it's only going to get better. The reason I think it'll get better is because I see podcasting as a vehicle for smart people to get a hour of air time to explain a difficult problem instead of the usual five to ten minutes they usually get on some TV show

[@AssetW]

Wow

[@doyoufeelthemusic]

Things are nice until advertisers ruin it. 🙄

[@erniea5843]

Trust me, you don’t want the Chinese model for your technology... unless hate freedom, privacy and thinking for yourself

[@Cheese-0x]

Nice presentation, what dystopian movie is it from? Also, why is she screaming like we're about to go to war? For Dystopia!!!

[@saipavanboddu]

Paytm one of the super app. I feel it's junk already. We only need cloude apps.

[@theculturewatch2414]

THIS IS A FUTURISTIC NIGHTMARE

[@jeffersonmomplaisir6832]

What’s the name of the women speaking?

[@vishnureddy7897]

Sorry but I'm not able to understand this "wireless hardware helped one listen to podcasts on the go" thing. What went wrong with wired headphones that padlocked this virality?

[@movingman07]

This is all good but if people don't have money. None of this means anything. You can market your ass off but if people dont have money it is all for nothing look around.

[@Boba0514]

It's really irritating how she says that all this is great and exciting, while everyone is just celebrating living in a police state. This is something you really shouldn't export from china, please...

[@rosemaganda1775]

Nice bery nice oky

[@AyahuascaMagic]

what a nightmare

[@juanpablosyoutube]

10:20 what? Tf. Then what's the point jeez. And shit, much more stuff you go downhill that way. Hell nah

[@SergioDuFont]

Profoundly pedestrian

[@robertlavedas4964]

apps are useless as the better business bureau, it's just a way to insulate the customer that the business has just cheated from being able to seek reasonable recourse with a human with the power to correct the problem.

[@georgeanton]

Create a drate

[@SureshBabu-vb1sd]

🙏🙏🙏🙏👍

[@alexandrekantjas39]

Farm to table is not that. Should visit a market in France to understand what it really is

[@acemiyamoto61]

😘welcome to the future boomers.

[@JanneWolterbeek]

Most of these things do not appeal to me at all. First time I watch a a16z video and already disappointed, sorry.

[@pressiyamu8976]

No I reject it.

[@aleksandrshumakov2532]

Funny how she sells obvious things (imagine being literally inside consumers heads via podcasts). I wonder shat she would say when she discovers new miracle of CINEMATOGRAPHY.

[@rightright6582]

My type of girl

[@argosopentech]

No thanks

[@ZacchaeusNifong]

Od information. She's not cutting edge just by calling it a "super app." Getting tired of these tech hacks.

[@ctoxyz]

super app != app -- the cycle back + forth i've learned of my species... is boringly predictable & has the same old Verbal Super-Spin Pump-Up... sounds like someone tryna pitch Nintentdo Glove.. Oohhhh Ahhhh.. Zzzzz.

[@yashrt]

I like the advertisement of knowable.fyi

[@SpaceEnterSwizard]

I don't know why but the whole talk sounds very creepy and full of evil and dirty minds.

[@Gentleman2019]

I'm seriously planning to live off the grid n dumping this bullshit way of life.

[@aljazfajmut]

If it's happening in China it doesn't mean it will happen in the West. More important than following the trends is the question if that is the future we want. Probably not, but it seems like the presenter is particularly interested in one thing - money.

[@0x0michael]

Nope

[@Lululemon2023]

So many sour grapes in the comment section.

[@Whitify]

This is an ugly outlook for the world.

[@MrRohitchowdhary]

Bitcoin 🧐😉 👍 💪💥

[@kunsthooligan_vegan]

This lobster thing is so cruel ... go vegan please

[@pieter5466]

Most of this sounds incredibly creepy

[@tincan77]

Pieter she’s pushing Chinese style hyper integration that relies on total user data access and surveillance

[@abdallahjarkas]

I'm going back to Nokia 3310!

[@quimmmus]

Most of the companies mentioned are examples of the opposite is being said: product centric apps, not user centric

[@mikegurung1408]

How will people know the orange they bought are from the same farm showing in videos ? It makes no sense.

[@TheLocalSearchChannel]

Mike Gurung A fruit blockchain?

[@Eliassausaur]

Welp, that was not as bad as the comment section made it seem to be. I actually share her enthusiasm about "data-assets", but the idea that the west has anything to learn from Chinese "super-apps" is absolutely grotesque and I feel slightly insulted.

[@BasharAlkhalili]

11:05 "....And the glorious magical moment when you realize that you found time" It's really gut wrenching to see how excited she is to announce that our "newly found time" of undistracted listening will be filled up with ads. I know Podcasts today already have ads, but the idea that corporates are now hunting after these short periods of our peace of mind is really scary.

[@jontroop]

most of this sounds awful

[@OleksandrKucherenko]

Interesting that talk is mostly about spending money, not about how to make them or save... Think twice is it good or bad for humanity.

[@MotorcyclesandZen]

How is facial recognition helping find guns? Do people carry them on their foreheads?

[@smrocknroller]

my only question is what is ultimate difference between having a super app, and using a mobile browser and using bookmarks.

[@thenashbridges]

C2 the difference is that browser vendors usually tend to not control or dictate which sites do you open in their tabs. Super apps are closed ecosystems, this is kind of back to WAP portals.

[@smrocknroller]

​@@thenashbridges my point exactly. one can make their own closed ecosystem portal with bookmarks and maintain ability to add an infinite number of others. i see superapp concept as just a consolidation play for incumbents

[@alwynsam5349]

Very little of this seems to be aimed at solving challenging problems and making people's lives better...

[@rotimibest8530]

That is better than business model for companies rather than free app + immense surveillance and ads. I actually think it make it easier for me if I was watching a video of an orange and I felt I wanted to buy exactly that, to just click a button to buy. That's not monitoring, its monitoring when I see the option to buy an orange in a different app.

[@ThePharaohsCat]

Am sorry Connie. West is not East. There are local/cultural differences. U only see $$$, others see dystopia. Watch Connie, then watch this kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX3SZJhnhcaeY7s SKYNET + SESAME CREDIT no thx!

[@Srdjancolak21]

As someone below already commented - what a fucking horrifying dystopia - she represents just about everything wrong abut today's tech world.

[@johantchassem1553]

she literally saying NO PRIVACY

[@alexcipriani6003]

This is the perfect example of the current state of tech...instead of focusing on solving the problems we face today we settle for selling another fucking widget. We focus on trying to figure out how else can we exploit consumer behavior to sell them more crap nobody needs.

[@MrJatan90]

Play above video if you want to watch Black Mirror S1E0

[@dr.tetraminflakes3187]

she is a spokes men for tencent, what is both meituan dianping and spotify both have in common? tencent have investment in both.

[@venper6074]

Fuck, everything is one big shopping centre. I don't want it.

[@irlvnt]

Her last words -> definitely not a sustainable future

[@orcunumutkumova7672]

It’s not exciting it’s just creepy!

[@mrtsh]

Can someone tell me when was this talk IRL?