mobile

“I think the first, and really the most important, is the sense that mobile is really making technology a universal product. That is to say, we sold mainframes to big companies, and we sold PCs to middle class families, and we sold technology in one way or anot…”

“We think artificial intelligence, and in particular deep learning, could be as profound and maybe even bigger.”

“So I sometimes feel that talking about mobile now is a bit like talking about PCs in 2000, that this enormous thing has now happened, and we're thinking about what we can do with it.”

“For 20 years, the web, the internet and the web were the same thing. And that's not the case on mobile. On the desktop, you had this box on the screen And everything happened in that box. And there was a little bit of fighting 15 years ago about who got to mak…”

“In the great wide world of the enormous transformation of the technology industry, and the media industry, and the whole, of industry in general, by mobile, the Mac is kind of irrelevant.”

“It's not that every single process and piece of software and piece of infrastructure has to move to the cloud or become mobile. It's that there's a net new area of work that's happening or opportunity that will align to more of these principles”

“Now that is trivial, because of software as a service, because of mobile, because of these platforms. So, Getting the data has become, you know, orders of magnitude easier, and so the next job is really, what do you do with it?”

“We did four hundred million video views last month, and about half is mobile.”

“The decline of that very bad business model is going to Accelerate on mobile, because on mobile you simply can't fit all that stuff. It's a terrible, it's even a worse experience. I would wager, when you look at the click-through rates on mobile banner ads, it…”

“This is why Facebook has gone from being the only social network on desktop to being only one of many social networks on mobile”

“99% of our daily active users will log into Slack at least once on that day that they're active on the desktop, but only about 65% will do the same thing on mobile.”

“And so all of the friction that made it difficult to use more than one social network on the desktop web goes away on mobile, or almost all of it.”

“I think the, you know, the short answer to probably every tech M&A you see anywhere for the last five years is mobile.”

“For so many people in China, the mobile was and is their only access to the internet.”

“What's really happening now is, is the innovation has just moved up the stack. And now you're just going to start to see like constellations of innovation.”

“Anything that is far more impulse driven, where you can just have a look and make a purchase decision, people are ok buying on the mobile. But there are many things which are very research oriented purchases where, hey, if you want to buy, let's say a laptop, …”

“It was easier for platforms to build a network, I would argue, on mobile more than web.”

“Like the average person Employee at a company now is spending less than half their time at a desk, and when you start looking at the time that they're spending on working, like, it's all shifting to mobile.”

“I kind of think this is mobile in 2000 five or something.”

“At best, there's only a couple hundred million people in the world that will touch a console on a given generation. But mobile is well north of two billion.”

“And same with homework helper apps. Like, those are really blowing up on mobile as compared to web.”

“A lot of the voice-first consumer products that we are seeing working actually are on mobile versus web because it's easier and more natural to talk into your phone for language learning or for companionship or other use cases than it is to maybe talk into you…”