smartphone

“By the end of this decade, we'll probably go to three quarters of the population being online. Out of five billion adults on Earth, four billion, or over four billion, will have mobile, four billion will have smartphones, and PCs, and consumer PCs in particula…”

“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…”

“Everybody who has a smartphone, which is pretty soon going to be everybody in the world, has the Library of Congress in their pocket. So that means a girl growing up in Bangladesh now has a better library than a student at Columbia or Harvard had 20 years ago.”

“It powers wearables and Internet of Things and connected cars and drones and everything else, because fundamentally all of those things are basically smartphones just put together in a different way, but put together by the same people with the same components…”

“That means that by 20 20 of about seven billion people on earth and a bit over five billion adults, over four billion will have a mobile phone, and almost all of those will have converted to a smartphone”

“We've gone to about three billion people online and two billion people with smartphones.”

“And then the next few years, we'll add another billion and all of that growth will be driven by smartphones.”

“And in the same sense, Airbnb and Uber and Lyft are fundamentally enabled by smartphones. They may, they would not be possible without smartphones. They certainly wouldn't be possible without the internet, but they're not in The technology business. They're no…”

“Not a smartphone yet, but that's converting quite quickly to smartphones. And of course the thing that drives that is cheap Android.”

“A lot of the businesses we saw in two point on the last page are completely enabled by smartphones and would essentially be impossible without the smartphone.”

“About two and a half billion people have smartphones, and that will go to five billion smartphones.”

“Again, things such as even paying their traffic bills are possible all with their smartphone.”

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

“But what we'll see is that banking services in most of the world are not going to arise via branches and credit cards. They're going to come up via your smartphone.”

“The actual number of cell phone users in the year 2000 was a hundred and nine million, and today 900,000 new subscribers turn on their smartphones for the very first time every three days.”

“You can get a 15 dollar Android phone now. That will come down. You'll be able to get a three dollar phone. It'll probably be like Benedict Evans, who works with us, comes up, he does all these studies on this. It'll be, there'll be something, there's like thr…”

“The smartphone itself becomes a social platform, whereas Facebook, you know, whereas, you know, on the desktop you had the browser, and then inside the browser you had Facebook, and then inside Facebook you had a social platform, whereas on a smartphone that's…”

“I think within two years for phones, almost all smartphones will be able to take three to three D imaging.”

“Actually what real people are doing is leapfrogging tablets and going straight to smartphones.”

“There are about one and a half billion smartphones on earth now, and we'll go up to maybe three billion, and they'll be everywhere.”

“What the smartphone did was unbundle the internet from the web and amongst many other things.”

“It turns out you can save, it's like some astounding number, like 20% of energy use using that.”

“And this is the thing I've been talking a lot about that people occasionally get angry about, because they think it won't Can't possibly come true, but I'm convinced it's going to come true, which is I think everybody on the planet by the end of the decade is …”

“Mobile and therefore smartphones is a product that 70, 80, 90% of people on earth are going to have”

“The first is to say, well, I enter high volumes of text, or I do this precision work with a detail work with a mouse. You can't do that on a smartphone or a keyboard, therefore it's useless. And the answer is, yes, but most people don't actually do that. That'…”

“There's going to be a billion people whose first experience of the internet, or the first experience of owning a device that can use the internet, is going to be a smartphone.”

“So the big thing happening in the world right now is the smartphone, and the significance of the smartphone is, for the first time in human history, we're going to get a computer in everybody's hands, and by everybody, I mean everybody on the planet and by eve…”

“Basically, Myanmar is going more or less straight, not just to mobile, but straight to smartphone, and you're going to have 51.4 million people experiencing internet and engaging with the internet for the first time through smartphones, and that is, ah, that's…”

“And we'll go to four billion. There's about three and a half to four billion people on Earth today who have a mobile phone. There's a lot more SIM cards, but there's three and a half to four billion people on Earth today who have a mobile phone. And that will …”

“Generally the way it works is you have this shining vision of the wonderful thing, and the technology doesn't quite live up to it for years and years and years, whereas because all the stuff got made for smartphones first, all the components got made for smart…”

“In a funny sort of sense, it's like you could be too far up the stack to do this, just as you could be too far down the stack to do this. So just as it doesn't really make sense for a mobile operator or a handset maker to try and build a social network, it doe…”

“You need both, and you will continue to need both for the time being because of things like battery life and Space. You can't put a cellular radio and a battery that can power it into something that will fit on your wrist, at least not yet.”

“How, but on the other hand, it's better than taking your phone out.”

“And so asking, you know, what are the core use cases for this? Slightly misses the point, because it's not the one thing that you will own that fills this void in your life, the way a smartphone did, or a PC did.”

“The phone the watch and these devices, right, it's now an extension of us as a human being. So to some extent we think about this as like it could become the first brain. It could be something that it decides what's going on before you sort of tell it to.”

“We're going through a kind of generational shift from the PC being the dominant computing platform to mobile being the dominant computing platform. And that comes with it a shift from there being about one and a half billion PCs on earth to four or five billio…”

“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…”

“For the vast majority of people, the TV will be done whilst for the smartphone. Rather than, so it won't be a box that's plugged into your TV that runs your whole digital experience.”

“And so there's a very, very big opportunity to use these new technologies, and those include Bitcoin, and those include smartphones, to really up level the capabilities that people have in, in many countries. And I think that's a big part of how Bitcoin will p…”

“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…”

“Steve Jobs was the first guy to get that. You take a microprocessor, and you combine it with a music player, and you've got an iPod. You take a microprocessor, you combine it with a telephone, you've got a smartphone. He was the first guy to really take advant…”

“The majority of time spent online on a smartphone actually isn't inside the web browser. It's inside Facebook, and it's inside other apps.”

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

“Almost all of those will become smartphones in the next couple of years, or well over a billion are now, and so we'll go to two billion smartphones if you add in tablets, maybe two and a half, as opposed to three hundred million PCs, And we'll go to five to si…”

“So you've got this kind of Cambrian explosion of innovation on top of the smartphone now that that's become like a relatively solid platform where you kind of know what you're dealing with and all these things have become possible.”

“The average smartphone is covered by 250,000 patents. The average drug by 30 or 40 patents.”

“On like a five-year view, it seems to me that this is all going to be about smartphones, because just Moore's law will drive this, and the graphics and the sensors will get there”

“The sort of the tech industry is kind of like a solar system and smartphone is the sun and everything else orbits around it.”

“What makes mobile devices like smartphones so powerful is it can fill kind of the empty times throughout your day... Whereas, you know, with VR, you're not gonna fill empty time. AR, you know, the case could be made that you could use in that way.”

“Well, I think the basic story here is smartphones eat VR.”

“If I was to say I installed an app on my smartphone in five years time, I don't quite know what that word would mean.”

“Refugees, the most important object that they have is their smartphone.”

“There's this amazing study showing that if you sit across from someone else, and there's a smartphone on the table, even if it's inert, it's not actually being used. The conversation that you have with that person, if that person is a stranger, will be diminis…”

“Everyone's getting on smartphones, and it's going to be really hard to buy a feature phone in the coming years.”

“So longer term, in my view, that, you know, sort of autonomy, knowing the drone will avoid obstacles, be able to do kind of high-level functionality like identify people and objects, will eventually allow software developers to build applications in the same w…”

“We're at the point now, three billion smartphones on its way to six, seven billion on the planet. We're going to be able to connect everybody. We're going to be able to get, over time, we're going to be able to get everybody all the things that I went through,…”

“Well, because it used to be that you were, you know, what kind of time were you competing for in the first couple of years of the smartphone? You were competing against literally, I'm going to stare at the back of this person's head Or I can, like, use some co…”

“Well, so the way I kind of think about this is we're now kind of on the upper slopes of the S-curve for smartphones. There was a period when, like, the first smartphones were amazing, and then there's a period of very, very rapid improvement, the screens get b…”

“No one knew at the time you needed smartphones to get the on-demand delivery piece of the puzzle to work, but it's not like people hunkered down and waited.”

“There's five and a half billion adults on earth, and four billion or so people have a smartphone, and 809 hundred million of those now are iPhones.”

“We've got, what is it, like three to four billion people with smartphones. That's going to go to eight billion.”

“And a fancier phone with bells and whistles isn't disruptive, but a cheap computer that you can take with you everywhere is disruptive.”

“I don't think the smartphone helped much at all just in terms of productivity and knowledge work.”

“Sitting here today in 2023, the following is true. More people in the world have computers in the form of smartphones specifically and internet access than have electricity or running water in their homes.”

“I think within five years, you're going to have models of this size on your phone.”

“10 years, I feel pretty confident that we will have a lot more ways to bring content into our, you know, view shed than just taking out our fun.”

“Phones have destroyed the human race. Like, the fertility crash that's happening all around the world. Nobody has replacement level fertility. Fertility is going far below replacement everywhere because of technology.”

“Also, to build on your point earlier, like, about distribution, and the reason that distribution is not the advantage that it used to be is because It's already exists on seven billion phones.”

“Well, you know, I'm a centrist, so I think this is as big a deal as the internet or smartphones, but only as big a deal as the internet or smartphones.”

“So even today, there's less than a billion consumer PCs on earth, and there's something between five and six billion smartphones.”