Keith Teare Quotes

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.

WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.

In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.

The biggest innovation of all is social networking, and cellular technology is the facilitator for social networking. People are mobile; social networking is people, and the only way people connect with each other is wirelessly.

I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.

I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.

Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.

With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom's eye, I was involved in creating a service called CrowdFire. It was a way for fans at a festival (the first was Outside Lands) to share photos, tweets, and texts in a location and event specific way.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.