Mobile Ecosystem
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
In Depth 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
4 statements about Mobile Ecosystem, every show
Wang: AI in 2025 is earlier in evolution than early-2010s mobile
“I think there's some interesting parallels, say, to where like AI is today, where I think that AI is probably a few quarters earlier than that, and people still don't know what's, what's going to happen, and there's a lot more change going on, so it's probably…”
Open Internet Enables More Startup Innovation Than Gated Mobile Ecosystems
“That's always the challenge in startups, and it's one of the reasons why the internet has been much better for entrepreneurs than mobile ecosystems, because the mobile, mobile ecosystems Are controlled by solitary providers in ways that the internet is not. An…”
Shankar: VR leveraged mobile supply chains, but AR lacks equivalent components
“The whole VR movement got kickstarted off just mobile devices. The iPhone and the entire mobile ecosystem of hardware allowing cheap gyroscopes and cheap displays, cheap high resolution displays to be used to bootstrap the initial VR headsets.”