Posts in Mobile
Mobile, ecosystems and the death of PCs

When we say 'mobile' we don't mean mobile just as when we said 'PCs' we didn't mean PC. This isn't about the screen size or keyboard or location or use. Rather, the ecosystem of ARM, iOS and Android, with 10x the scale of Wintel, will become the new centre of gravity throughout computing.

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MobileBenedict Evans
Subscription iPhones

By financing iPhones directly, Apple locks in iPhone users to a rolling subscription, enters the second-hand market in a big way and removes a piece of mobile operators' relationship with users

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MobileBenedict Evans
Forget about the mobile internet

For as long as the idea of the 'mobile internet' has been around, we've thought of it as a cut-down subset of the 'real' Internet. It's time to invert that - to think about mobile as the real internet and the desktop as the limited, cut-down version. 

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MobileBenedict Evans