By August 2021, at least five billion people worldwide will own smartphones.
Partly right ●●●●●
“In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones”
- Said on
- 20 August 2011 · Essay "Why Software Is Eating the World", Wall Street Journal, reposted on a16z.com
- Source
- Why Software Is Eating the World · Andreessen Horowitz
- Should come true
- Aug 2021
- How sure they sounded
- I expect
- Categories
- Technology
- Importance
- 4 of 5 · Global smartphone adoption determines who has Internet access worldwide.
Outcome
Partly right
GSMA reports 4.3 billion mobile internet users at end-2021 and about 4 billion people using mobile internet via smartphone only by end-2022, short of the 5 billion people predicted, although smartphone subscriptions (not unique people) exceeded 6 billion. Scored partial: adoption was massive but clearly below the stated threshold of unique owners.
- https://www.gsma.com/r/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/The-State-of-Mobile-Internet-Connectivity-Report-2022.pdf
- https://www.gsma.com/betterfuture/resources/the-state-of-mobile-internet-connectivity-2022
History
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