a16z Podcast: What Comes After the Smartphone by a16z published on 2015-10-22T20:49:29Z Technology is a progression of new ideas and new platforms gobbling up the one that came before. In the world of computers we went from mainframes to mini computers to PCs. And then came the mobile phone, which, in the form of the smartphone, has dwarfed them all. But what does that to mobile? When you have already gotten to everybody on earth, what comes along that is 10X the size? a16z’s Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky offer their thoughts on where technology is today, why the perfection of the current crop of PCs signals the category’s collapse, and what happens after the smartphone. Genre mobile Comment by stclairej 4.5 b pcs have been sold in history 2015/12/05 02:16:32 +0000 Comment by Inder Davalur Likely to see peripherals for VR? 2015/10/26 16:01:11 +0000 Comment by monk user serviceable/configurable phone parts, probably. open platforms, obviously 2015/10/23 01:32:10 +0000
