Smartphone shipments decline 6.3%

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14 points·prostoalex··6 comments

Same thing that happened to PCs. People are finding that their 3-5 (or more) year old devices are still perfectly adequate for their needs.

Even further....

My mom still uses my 2006 Mac Mini Core Duo running Windows 7 when she has students over when she tutors.

Her main computer is a 2007 era Sony Viao Core Duo with 2GB of RAM running Windows 7 and Office.

I'm using a 2008 Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4Gb of RAM as a Plex Server.

I just replaced a Pentium Dusl Core laptop with 4GB of RAM circa 2009 with a newer laptop. I still use it occasionally. It's my only computer with a DVD writer.

It helps that my main use of a computer involves work and my main laptop is work provided.

i dunno i ended up finding mobile web/phones kind of useless crap adspam gun laser machines

> Same thing that happened to PCs.

What happened to PCs was market saturation followed by people choosing smartphones over PCs.

It is inevitable that smartphones sales will stall and the growth will decline because the smartphone market is saturated.

And the market is saturated exactly because the consumerist need to continuously renew the mobile phone is gone, beyond a few percent that always need to show they own the latest gizmos.

yet they keep raising prices of flagship to see where is the limit

or maybe it actually doesn't matter that shipments are failing since prices are going up and market it's already saturated outside third world countries like India and lower

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