The End of Mobile

[stunt]

I think social news websites like HN should add an explicit clickbait counter and let users report it explicitly. Hopefully, we can get rid of this trend.

[backpackway]

This is an awesome idea and would love this paired with a 'fluff' counter telling how much unnecessary fluff is around a key message of an article. In this case it's low.

[stunt]

I haven't actually read this particular article. I am generally speaking after reading comments.

[listenallyall]

-1. What a terrible, misleading, click-bait-ish headline. The article describes the exact opposite of what the headline suggests: that virtually every adult on the planet has a mobile device.

The article itself is simply the list of sources and methodology used to determine this fact. But headlining the article "everyone has a phone" would leave no reason to click.

Unfortunate to see that our best and brightest (Andreessen Horowitz) are no better than click-bait-ish spammers.

[jjeaff]

Or perhaps the title just went over your head.

[subbz]

I don't get why it'd be the "end" of mobile?

[Veen]

I think it's a reference to Fukuyama's "end of history." It's not that history or mobile computing reached their end, but that the significant conflicts between world views and computing platforms are over. In history, the West won the Cold War. In computing, mobile won.

[Zanni]

It's the end of growth in mobile, though he doesn't really make that explicit.

[wvh]

It's more clear if you put the quotes differently: the end of "mobile". Since it's mainstream, there's no reason to list it as a separate fringe category.

[kochikame]

Yeah, it just means people are buying devices less frequently

"Mobile" (however defined) is obviously not going anywhere. I think it's just a click-bait headline

[tempodox]

This is what happens if you don't impose a speed limit on hype trains. We're supposed to be at “the end” of <something> already again. As long as they don't raise entertainment tax for the dizziness resulting from the speed of fashion changes, I'll just ask for the pop corn and lean back.