Smartphone Market

topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes

Founder's Journal More or Less the a16z Podcast 20VC

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Dave Morin: DOJ artificially narrowed Apple smartphone market to claim a monopoly
“You can't claim that I just on one simple piece of data, which is that Apple doesn't even have a monopoly position in the smartphone market. You know, and like the lawsuit had to reduce the scope of the smartphone market to like just the expensive part of the …”
Dave Morin Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 1:42 #80: More or Less Holiday Special Pt. 2 (Crypto and Antitrust) · More or Less Podcast
Lieberman: The modern smartphone market is incremental sustaining innovation
“I would consider the current smartphone market, which is defined by incrementality, as sustained innovation.”
Alex Lieberman Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 10:53 Why The Next Big Thing Looks Like a Toy? Ft. Apple Vision Pro
a16z 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
a16z 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)
20VC Prediction Partly held up
Bonatsos predicts global smartphone users will reach 5 to 7 billion
“I continue to be uber excited about anything that can be delivered through a mobile device. Frankly, because from two billion smartphone owners, we're going to get to five, six, seven billion over the next decade.”
Niko Bonatsos Feb 5, 2015 ▶ 20:36 20 VC: Niko Bonatsos on Startup Valuations

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