smartphone
also referred to as: smartphones
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 17, 2025 by Ethan Sutin · across every show →
Everything said about smartphone, oldest first
Feb 17, 2025 negative
Sutin: Phone-based continuous audio fails due to mic monopolization and calls
“If you wanted to, like, have, like, continuous understanding of audio with your phone, it would monopolize your microphone, it would get interrupted by calls, and you'd have to remember to turn it on, and, like, that little bit of friction is actually, like, a…”
Feb 24, 2026 bearish
O'Laughlin: Memory shortages will price out low-end phones and gaming GPUs
“Memory prices are going to go up so much that we're going to have to choose which exactly. That's the crazy part to me. Historically, memory has never been a constraint like this where I said, actually, you're not going to get your low end. You're not going to…”