Smartphones continue to face challenges in 2019, according to IDC

The challenges for smartphones continue in 2019 and the agency expects that shipments will maintain their overall volume in the second half of 2019, with a slight decrease of just 0.4%, indicating maturity and growth. market stability. However, IDC expects shipments to increase again by 1.6% in 2020.

An IDC analyst said the industrial partners were unstable and that there was uncertainty and uncertainty in the future because of the economic tension between China and the United States, which makes planning difficult for the future. Users, he says, stay longer on their devices, which reduces sales of new devices.

Android is expected to dominate the market with 87% of global smartphone sales, behind which iOS comes from Apple with a 13% market share, with sales reaching 177 million devices.

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