Evans: None of the original cellular pioneers remain in the handset business
Benedict Evans · a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality · Jan 2, 2019 · at 20:52
Benedict Evans, analyst at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses the historical turnover and disaggregation among mobile hardware manufacturers at Mobile World Congress 2016.
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“If you think back again, 15 years ago, none of the companies that kind of created cellular are in the handset business anymore. Like, none of them. They're all out of it. Like, Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens, you know, Motorola. All of those companies are out of the handset business. Samsung is the only one, and they were, yeah, they were there, but they weren't, like, one of the kind of primary creators of cellular technology. Samsung are the only brand name from 15 years ago that is still in the handset business, pretty much.”
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