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"mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing"...yes, somewhat on the hardware side. There are still annual sales of maybe 1 billion smartphones a year...so that's a pretty big market.

I think that there's still ENORMOUS potential for mobile apps and mobile-driven services. There's huge opportunity for new services e.g. Uber. I think just about every large web/desktop property faces a significant threat from a mobile app e.g. craigslist, match.com (they luckily own tinder), flickr (wait, already gone to Instragam), AIM/Yahoo Messenger (gone thanks to Whatsapp), etc...

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The top 10 apps are now all from Facebook or Google. The average user now loads zero apps per month. Apps are dead.[1]

[1] https://www.recode.net/2016/9/16/12933780/average-app-downlo...

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Why is that surprising? All my needs are catered for so why would I download more apps?

I'm actually surprised the 51% are downloading one or more a month, that's hundreds of millions of potential customers right there.

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in addition, the users who don't have smartphones yet don't have very attractive demographics, and attention is saturated: https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/570bbc5f-526e-482f-90ac...

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From that article: "U.S. users spend about 12 hours a day consuming media, which seems a relatively hard limit (up only 4% in the past five years)."

12 hours? Wow. TV maxed out at about 5 hours a day.