(2017-03-22) Evans End Of Smartphone Innovation

Ben Evans: The end of SmartPhone Innovation

Of course, that is only true until the next S-Curve comes along and resets the score, just as the iPhone did to both Microsoft and Nokia.

This means that the questions change. We don't ask 'will this work?' or 'who will win?' - Apple and Google (Android) won.

The trend this year is to say that this new S-Curve will be Voice Control (I'm skeptical) or just AI in general (yes, but I'm not sure it changes the dynamics in phones). AI certainly is the new S-Curve in the tech industry, but for actual devices you carry around with you, I increasingly think that Augmented Reality is the next fundamental platform shift