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Re:Smartphone shipments decline 6.3% by ams6110 on Saturday February 03, 2018 @05:49PM (#16300130)
Same thing that happened to PCs. People are finding that their 3-5 (or more) year old devices are still perfectly adequate for their needs.
Re:Smartphone shipments decline 6.3% by scarface74 on Sunday February 04, 2018 @07:54PM (#16305866)
Even further....

My mom still uses my 2006 Mac Mini Core Duo running Windows 7 when she has students over when she tutors.

Her main computer is a 2007 era Sony Viao Core Duo with 2GB of RAM running Windows 7 and Office.

I'm using a 2008 Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4Gb of RAM as a Plex Server.

I just replaced a Pentium Dusl Core laptop with 4GB of RAM circa 2009 with a newer laptop. I still use it occasionally. It's my only computer with a DVD writer.

It helps that my main use of a computer involves work and my main laptop is work provided.

Re:Smartphone shipments decline 6.3% by moocowtruck on Saturday February 03, 2018 @05:59PM (#16300181)
i dunno i ended up finding mobile web/phones kind of useless crap adspam gun laser machines
Re:Smartphone shipments decline 6.3% by yakitori on Saturday February 03, 2018 @07:26PM (#16300524)
> Same thing that happened to PCs.

What happened to PCs was market saturation followed by people choosing smartphones over PCs.

It is inevitable that smartphones sales will stall and the growth will decline because the smartphone market is saturated.

Re:Smartphone shipments decline 6.3% by pjmlp on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:42PM (#16300780)
And the market is saturated exactly because the consumerist need to continuously renew the mobile phone is gone, beyond a few percent that always need to show they own the latest gizmos.
Re:Smartphone shipments decline 6.3% by Markoff on Saturday February 03, 2018 @09:49PM (#16301018)
yet they keep raising prices of flagship to see where is the limit

or maybe it actually doesn't matter that shipments are failing since prices are going up and market it's already saturated outside third world countries like India and lower