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"mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing"...yes, somewhat on the hardware side. There are still annual sales of maybe 1 billion smartphones a year...so th

"mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing"...yes, somewhat on the hardware side. There are still annual sales of maybe 1 billion smartphones a year...so that's a pretty big market. I think that there's still ENORMOUS potential for mobile apps and mobile-driven services. There's huge opportunity for new services e.g. Uber. I think just about every large web/desktop property faces a significant threat from a mobile app e.g. craigslist, match.com (they luckily own tinder), flickr (wait, already gone to Instragam), AIM/Yahoo Messenger (gone thanks to Whatsapp), etc...

Animats 9y ago
The top 10 apps are now all from Facebook or Google. The average user now loads zero apps per month. Apps are dead.[1] [1] https://www.recode.net/2016/9/16/12933780/average-app-downloads-per-month-comscore https://www.recode.net/2016/9/16/12933780/average-app-downlo...
- microddin 9y ago
  in addition, the users who don't have smartphones yet don't have very attractive demographics, and attention is saturated: https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/570bbc5f-526e-482f-90ac-c6ff2fd9fb29.pdf https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/570bbc5f-526e-482f-90ac...
  - Animats 9y ago
    From that article: "U.S. users spend about 12 hours a day consuming media, which seems a relatively hard limit (up only 4% in the past five years)." 12 hours? Wow. TV maxed out at about 5 hours a day.
- flukus 9y ago
  Why is that surprising? All my needs are catered for so why would I download more apps? I'm actually surprised the 51% are downloading one or more a month, that's hundreds of millions of potential customers right there.