Thorsten Heins Quotes

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

I do everything on my phone!

I'm a big mobile fan, so I love seeing all of the latest technologies with phones.

With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.

Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.

On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.

Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.

Is it possible for Apple or anyone else to rule in the mobile realm the way Microsoft did on the desktop? The way to do this is to go mass-market with a device that can do anything the others can do.

I think everybody understands mobility because everybody's got a cellphone and lots of apps and seen how they've moved off of PCs and onto mobility.

If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would be worth $50.

Android is the kind of runaway smash hit that techies spend their careers dreaming about.

Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity.

I spend about half my time in mobile and half my time on enterprise.

Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.

I don't really flaunt any gadget, but I am loving my Nokia Lumia.

The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.

The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.

As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.

I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.

Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile.

I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.