Mobile Revolution Quotes

For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.

The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.

When we started work on the iPhone, the motivation there was we all pretty much couldn't stand our phones, and we wanted a better phone.

Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

I don't know if anybody thought about how much impact the iPhone could have on society.

The mobile industry changed Africa.

We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era.

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

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.

The first step in mobility was about letting people speak to each other; then, through 3G and 4G, we saw real connectivity - which works but isn't really designed for quality streaming. With 5G, we won't just be able to communicate better: it will democratise machines.

Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.

I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

Mobile was Internet 2.0. It changed everything. Crypto is Internet 3.0.

People thought I was crazy thinking about a phone you can just put in your pocket.

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.

We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing.

The free market for mobile devices and wireless service has been a dramatic success.

We all know that mobile's going to change the world.

The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

What we did with this mobile telephone was create a revolution. Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are calling a person.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.