personal computer

“So there are two or three times more smartphones and PCs by 20 20, but you need to multiply those smartphones because they're personal and they're taken everywhere and they're frictionless and they have sensors and cameras and payments and all these other thin…”

“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 have about one and a half billion PCs on earth, and you can see that growth coming up. Over the last couple of decades and now flattening out and starting to decline.”

“Most everybody is going to just use about seven apps on their phone. And the same holds for PCs.”

“In the eighties, computers started to become more popular. They started to become this concept of like personal computers that people would actually bring to their homes, but they started to become more marketed as things for boys and men.”

“There's probably two billion smartphones on earth today, maybe two and a half billion, and the great majority of those mobile phones will convert. And so we'll end up with something like one and a half billion PCs and four to five billion smartphones and those…”

“And PCs are about one and a half billion, and half of those are corporate. So it's eight hundred million PCs, or seven or eight hundred million PCs that are in someone's home.”

“They're not getting chosen based on how nice it feels when you slam the door and, you know, the diamond cut chamfered edges. They're getting bought in the same way that Hertz buys cars, and they're getting bought in the same way that a big company buys PCs. Th…”

“And so a little bit like what happened with PCs or smartphones 10 years and 20 years ago you move to a point that it may be easier for people who are not in the car business to be in the car business, because the amount of stuff that you have to make, how that…”

“PCs are going to get super expensive now. Like, and everything about them is, it's just like buying a mainframe. Like, today, you can, if you're a big insurance company running mainframe software, you can hire programmers, you can get new features. It's just 1…”

“There's only one and a half billion PCs on Earth, and Apple has nine hundred million iOS devices out there.”

“There's only seven million people subscribing to Creative Cloud, and there's one and a half billion PCs out there.”

“And on a quarterly basis, Apple sells about the same number of, Apple sells the same number of devices as their RPCs sold.”

“Computers, PCs and Macs up until 93, 94 didn't even come with TCP IP built into the computer, built into the operating system.”

“The personal computer from sort of invention in 1975 through to, you know, basically 1992 was a text prompt system. I mean, 17 years in, you know, the whole industry took a left turn into GUIs and never looked back.”