smartphone
also referred to as: smartphones
10 statements across 8 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Oct 4, 2024 by Andrew Bosworth · across every show →
Everything said about smartphone, oldest first
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Bosworth: Smart glasses will offer proactive assistance smartphones cannot match
“Because the glasses are on your face, they're not in your pocket, and they have the ability over time, not immediately, to become aware of the world and to understand what you're trying to do in the world they can actually be very proactively helpful just to y…”
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Bosworth: AR will conceivably replace smartphones for high-end consumers over time
“We're a long ways from that for a bunch of reasons, not the least of which being the technology is not ready yet, but also because The application ecosystems will take a long time to transfer and user behaviors take a long time to change. So I think we have a …”
Dec 26, 2024 negative
Novick: Phones have no legitimate educational purpose or necessity in schools
“There's no need for them. There's nothing good that comes of it, and Ginja's, all of Ginja's reasons for it being bad, but no, I mean, what do students need a phone? They're in a place where there's adult supervision, and there are wired phones. If God forbid …”
Mar 5, 2025 neutral
May 27, 2025 bearish
Sep 16, 2025 bearish
Ranjan Roy predicts staring at smartphones will become like smoking on airplanes
“20 years from now, people are going to look back at like videos of people walking around, looking at their phones, and it's going to look like smoking cigarettes in an airplane. Like, you're just going to be like, I cannot believe people actually did that. And…”
Oct 6, 2025 bearish
Jun 11, 2026 bullish
Himel: Wearables will become ubiquitous without completely replacing smartphones
“At some point, we think that they'll be ubiquitously used by people providing a ton of value. That doesn't mean phones are gonna go away, but I think you'll see wearables be used for some of the things that you do on phones today. And a bunch of things that yo…”
Jul 7, 2026 neutral
Jul 7, 2026 positive