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Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland, and I sit here with Benedict Evans,

and Benedict has been putting together his year-end package, 16 mobile theses.

And it's your two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree plus 13 other things I guess it's a bit like um

there's this old Russian joke that a bunch of guys have been locked in a prison cell for so long

that they know all each of each other's jokes off by heart and instead of sending someone

telling a joke they'll just say 15 and everybody laughs and I thought, like, there's a whole bunch of issues that have been talked about and talked about and that keep coming up.

And I've kind of written three or four things about search and a couple of things about this issue and a couple of things about that issue.

And I wanted to kind of pull all of those together into one place as opposed to, you know, having a last post, most recent blog format.

And I was also thinking, so that was kind of this kind of a practical point.

Like, let's just have everything that I, kind of the way, all the different ways to think about all the different aspects of mobile and what the issues might be in one post.

Right.

And so you check out that post on A16Z.com and also

on Ben Evans. Yeah. And so what I've done is I've basically written a paragraph about each of those,

you know, outlining what are the actual issues around this question and then link the three or four

posts I've written. And so that's just kind of a kind of a practical thing that I thought would be

useful. What was also sort of driving my thinking a bit is that we are kind of a kind of a practical thing that I thought would be useful.

What was also sort of driving my thinking a bit is that we are kind of out of stage where we're sort of between waves in mobile, in that the smartphone wars are now over, or at least the first smartphone war is over in Apple and Google both won in different ways.

And the kind of the first messaging app wars are now mostly over and Facebook, mostly one in sort of various ways. And there's a few other examples of that. And there isn't like a big new trend coming up that like everyone's waiting for, you know, mobile payments or messaging or something.

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