Benedict Evans' point of view, but it reflects very well the DuckMa one.
Because mobile is revolutionizing technology industry, the internet and the broader
economy. As Evan explained last summer to Andreessen Horowitz’s partners while in
2000 there were less than 500 millions people online, in the last years the number has
reached 3 billions. Two of them have been online on mobile devices. The trend for 2020
sees all 3 billions people connected on mobile. Smartphone, therefore, are driving much
greater internet penetration.
The growth of post pc devices is huge but mobile devices doesn’t only mean mobile. Indeed they are used everywhere, not just when people are “mobile”. For 20 years Internet has been synonymous of web browser, mouse and keyboard. Mobile ended that: in the USA half of time spent online is on smartphone apps. So the present is “I installed an App on my smartphone”. Smartphone that is much more sophisticated than computers and can interact with us in different ways (every sensor could kickstart a new
Motivation
The growth of post pc devices is huge but mobile devices doesn’t only mean mobile. Indeed they are used everywhere, not just when people are “mobile”. For 20 years Internet has been synonymous of web browser, mouse and keyboard. Mobile ended that: in the USA half of time spent online is on smartphone apps. So the present is “I installed an App on my smartphone”. Smartphone that is much more sophisticated than computers and can interact with us in different ways (every sensor could kickstart a new
So mobile rises the opportunity of tech and internet. Let’s think about Facebook: mobile
ads are now 68% of revenue and brought in 7,4 billions dollars in 2014. Or the WhatsApp
boom: 20 billions sms a day and 30 billions WhatsApp messages (with just 40
engineers).
Creating a custom Watch Face is very cool and makes you feel unique.
Creating a custom Watch Face is very cool and makes you feel unique.
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