The days of double-digit smartphone growth are over — and the next decade may start to see smartphone sales decline.
From roughly 2007 until 2013, the smartphone market grew at an astonishing pace, posting double-digit growth year after year, even during a global recession.
One is the slowdown in smartphone innovation, which was once progressing at that same breakneck pace as smartphone sales.
In 2017, per the International Data Corporation, global shipments of smartphones declined year-over-year for the first time in history.
Some manufacturers and analysts may hope that flat sales in the developed world could be offset by strong sales in other markets.
Your smartphone camera is good to great, and you mainly share those photos on social media, where photo quality doesn’t matter much anyway.
For consumers, this means a world where you hold on to your phone for longer and longer, which is good for your pocketbook and good for the environment. »
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