smartphone market

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about smartphone market, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Evans: Mobile scale dwarfs PCs with 4 billion units replaced biennially
“We're going from a world where there are three hundred and fifty million PCs on Earth replaced every five years, more or less, to four billion phones on Earth replaced every two years, and those four billion phones are converting very fast to smartphones.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:18 a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
Apr 6, 2023 bearish
Assertion Supported
Pei: Total global smartphone market size is shrinking
“Actually the total size of the smartphone market is actually decreasing.”
Carl Pei Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 32:05 Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
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