I finally hit 100,000 views on a blog post from 2014 and it made me think about all the 'mobile is dead' takes

So I was checking my old analytics and found a post I wrote back in 2014 about how flip phones were making a comeback. It got 100,000 views over the years which blew my mind. But the funny part is all those articles from 2010 saying 'mobile internet will never work, screens are too small.' Now my phone does everything my desktop did back then. Some of those predictions aged like milk. Anyone else dig up old stats that make you laugh at how wrong experts were about mobile adoption?

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felix38522d agoMost Upvoted

Aged like milk? More like aged like a flip phone in a washing machine.

abby_martin2823d ago

I used to be one of those people back in 2010. I remember sitting at my desk with my big bulky laptop and telling my buddy that phones would never replace real computing. I had a flip phone at the time and thought the whole smartphone thing was a gimmick. Then I got my first iPhone in 2013 and within a year I was doing all my work on it. That 100k views really shows how fast things can change. The experts who said mobile was dead were just looking at the wrong metrics. Now I can't even imagine going back to the old way of doing things.