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I don’t like the guy. But don’t you think he was right about mobile?

A lot of mobile has happened. I don't think it "ate the world" - that would mean everything would be mobile now, and it is not. What's all the discussion I read on HN about rewriting everything in rust, LLMs, Postgres replacing everything, and many others? Not mobile, is what it is.

It's a meaningless soundbite.

1: It's the TITLE of a 100 slide presentation. It's not the only thing it said, and it's a way to think about what was happening.

2: Mobile replaced the PC as the main way people use the internet and do their day-to-day computing. The consumer Internet runs on smartphone apps, not PCs. In 2013 a lot of people didn't understand that that was happening, so it was worth saying.

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