mobile phone

“And in fact, if you want to find a manufactured product that has the same kind of scale as mobile phones, you really need to look at things like shoes or toothbrushes. There's no other kind of sophisticated manufactured product, certainly no other electronic p…”

“You are starting to see people at the margins of the mobile industry now for whom a mobile phone is the first electrical device they've ever owned. Not the first electronic device, the first electrical device that they've ever owned.”

“So there are about four billion people on earth buying a phone every two years on average, as opposed to about one and a half billion PCs being replaced every five years, so the phone business is bigger, and it's getting replaced, it's converting from feature …”

“Now this is gradually shifting to mobile, and in fact I would argue it's quickly shifting to mobile, and the interesting thing is that everything in your wallet today Except for cash can soon be placed on your mobile phone.”

“So there's three billion smartphones, five billion mobile phones, maybe five and a half billion adults.”

“The destiny of every Piece of hardware is ultimately to integrate with a mobile phone or many of them.”

“With the advent of mobile phones, it's now possible for those same armies of people to earn a living doing services. And you know, that's what I refer to as a people marketplace. They're service marketplaces build up around independent contractors.”

“Video, you know, TV is going to move to the mobile phone. HBO has already gone unbundled. Sports is going to go unbundled.”

“And then came the mobile phone, which, in the form of the smartphone, has dwarfed them all.”

“75% of all our orders, transactions now happen on mobile phones.”

“I think there's going to be this compounding. We're actually at the very beginning. Like, when people talk about the mobile phone and this arrival, it's not the end. It's the beginning, and the compounding effect hasn't even begun yet.”

“About 80% of India now has access to a mobile phone. A couple of decades ago that was just 10%, and so we've not just seen an increase in consumer surplus here, but we've seen, like, a tremendous reduction in inequality of access that just doesn't get picked u…”

“A lot of people failed early in mobile, including us by just taking our web stuff and putting on the mobile phone and being like, oh, like, the mobile phone, it's just like, we'll just put the web there. But because it wasn't native to what the phone was, and …”

“10 years ago, like, the mobile phone form factor, as amazing as it was, this is 2015, was like, already saturated. Like, that was what it was gonna be.”