Mobile Is Eating the World
Benedict Evans · 2014
"Mobile is the largest computing platform ever and is subsuming every other technology and industry."
A follow-up to Andreessen's thesis, Benedict Evans presented 'Mobile is Eating the World', arguing that the smartphone was the most universally adopted technology in human history, fundamentally changing how computing is consumed.
Evans pointed out that the PC revolution reached about 1.5 billion people, but the smartphone revolution would reach over 5 billion. The smartphone wasn't just a smaller computer; it was a sensor-rich (GPS, camera, accelerometer) device permanently attached to the user. This allowed software to escape the desktop and insert itself into every physical interaction in the real world (Uber, Tinder, mobile payments), dwarfing the scale of the original internet boom.
According to Benedict Evans, what made the smartphone revolution fundamentally larger than the PC revolution?
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