AFP, SAN FRANCISCOAfter a decade of sizzling growth, the smartphone market has suddenly cooled. Smartphone sales last year shrank slightly for the first time since the 2007 debut of the iPhone, surveys showed, while preliminary data this year pointed to further deceleration. “The market has peaked, that is the bottom line,” Technalysis Research analyst and consultant Bob O’Donnell said. “It is for sure not the death of the smartphone; it is the death of the growth of the smartphone market.”The smartphone market began to hit saturation in 2016, much the way the tablet and PC markets did years earlier. The smartphone market in China would flatten out next year, while sales in India are expected to continue to boom on low-priced handsets, IDC said.

Source: Taipei Times June 03, 2018 15:56 UTC