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Contrast with ~1.5 billion (!) smartphone sales per year.
by brianpgordon 8y ago
Contrast with ~1.5 billion (!) smartphone sales per year.
- ekianjo 8y agosuch figures wont last forever once smartphones are sufficiently mature and there is no performance difference from one model to the next.
- happosai 8y agoThe main reason to buy a new phone these days surely is "the old one broke". Being with us all the time. The planned obsolence - unreplaceable battery, glued screen, glassback etc mean phones break all the time. PCs stand still, even laptops tend be mostly stationary. No wonder my work laptop is now 6 years old and I feel no urge to request upgrade.
- kbwt 8y ago> The planned obsolence - unreplaceable battery, glued screen, glassback etc mean phones break all the time. Don't forget planned insecurity two years after release through unpatched software vulnerabilities.
- pjmlp 8y agoWith shops still selling un-upgradable Android devices with 5.1 on them, I seriously doubt non-technical users actually care about it. https://tinyurl.com/yakmsz6b https://tinyurl.com/yakmsz6b (sorry, in German)
- _hl_ 8y agoWhich is pretty much where we are now. At this point smartphone sales are mostly based on making performance more affordable, and lots of marketing.
- tatami 8y agoPeople drop their smartphones more often than their desktops. But I expect cheaper devices to take more share, since the "high-end" won't give you much benefits over them. My 120 EUR Xiaomi already offers amazing cost performance compared to most other Androids.
- zoltaan 8y agoSounds like a 'we sell more shoes than airplanes so we don't need airplanes no more' kind of argument.