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Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade (arstechnica.com)
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Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or, maybe, people realized that there is no reason to get a new phone every year.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are not mutually exclusive, tbf.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

True, but the calculation probably include also less expensive models, which make probably the big part of the market.
And even for a low price smartphone there is no necessity to buy a new one every year.

Then I agree, actually probably there is way less people that can put 1000 or more $/€ on a phone every year.