Mobile Is Eating the World 2016

Mobile Ate the World" (March 2016) is Benedict Evans' widely-cited Andreessen Horowitz presentation arguing that mobile has become the dominant computing ecosystem, eclipsing the PC in scale (billions of smartphones vs. hundreds of millions of PCs). It covers smartphones as a universal computing platform, the shift from PC-era to mobile-era ecosystems, mobile's ripple effects on hardware (drones, IoT, cars), enterprise productivity, and how mobile is reshaping the internet itself — including app ecosystems, platform gatekeepers, and content distribution.