Smartphones Global smartphone market drops 9% in biggest ever fall Demand for new phones appears to be waning with collapse in China market and Apple shipping 5m fewer devices Boxes of the iPhone X are pictured during its launch at the Apple store in Singapore in November 2017. Photograph: Edgar Su/ReutersThe global smartphone market fell 9% in a year this quarter, the biggest fall in smartphone history, with even Apple’s iPhone sales down 1% as users hang on to their phones longer. Data from Strategy Analytics shows global smartphone shipments shrank year-on-year from 438.7m to 400.2m in the fourth quarter of 2017. Linda Sui, director at Strategy Analytics, said: “It was the biggest annual fall in smartphone history. “Global iPhone volumes have actually declined on an annual basis for five of the past eight quarters,” said Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics.

Source: The Guardian February 02, 2018 11:15 UTC