Mobile Devices
topic on 8 shows · 14 statements across 13 episodes
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14 statements about Mobile Devices, every show
Ballmer: Microsoft only truly missed mobile devices and search
“So in the sense that we missed a major productivity area and we're in the productivity business and we were in the client Area, and we missed a client device. Those are the two. Nothing else we met, quote, missed.”
Friedberg: Apple's next mobile devices will feature chips running AI models locally
“I think you're gonna see a chip on the next set of mobile devices by Apple that will run models locally.”
Levchin: Mobile payments must be easier and faster than cash and cards
“And if it's not easy, it's just not going to work with money. Money works pretty well when it's in paper form and it works Really well when it's a card form. So if you're trying to push it into an application or into a mobile device, it better be easier and qu…”
Sofman: Anki Vector detethers from phones using onboard tablet-class processing
“From a technical standpoint, there was a huge, huge leap there because we now detethered away from a mobile device and put the equivalent of a tablet inside of this robot's head so that he can be always on and alive a hundred percent of the time, go back to hi…”
Jeffrey Wu: Mobile sensors stagnated while wearable human sensors exploded
“If you look at mobile devices, a lot of the sensors have stagnated, but where sensors have really exploded in terms of availability and cost is sensors on the human body.”
Over 55% of ESPN users exclusively access content on mobile devices
“Last month, 55% of our users exclusively accessed us on a mobile device.”
Stephen Sinofsky: PC software innovation is declining as mobile takes priority
“The innovation that's taking place in software on the PC is on, on a decline, and the innovation that people are starting to pour into the mobile devices, primarily phones, and something that's going to obviously change over time when you see things like Adobe…”
Schwartz: Enterprise software will probably never be bought on mobile
“There are many, many products that are probably never going to be bought on mobile. Like probably no one's going to buy enterprise software on, on a mobile device.”
Schwartz: Mobile SEO requires ranking in the top three results
“And then the biggest thing that you really need to keep in mind is that it's not about ranking in the top 10 results. You actually have to rank in the top three results.”
90% of mobile time is spent inside apps, primarily games
“90% of the time that all of us spend on a mobile device is in an app, and most of those apps are games.”
Mobile devices are locationally inaccurate by up to forty meters
“These devices are inherently inaccurate up to 30 or 40 meters.”
Bordes predicts large AI models will run on mobile devices by 2017
“And next year we will run them on mobile, so.”
Flynn: Pokémon Go proves massive mobile opportunities remain
“I think all you have to do is look at the success of what Pokemon Go has had literally over the last week to realize, hey, there's still massive opportunities to deliver magical experiences to end users by leveraging these devices.”