iPhone addiction? You ain't seen nothing yet...
iPhones and other smartphones truly are addictive and we’re spending more time staring at them than ever – meanwhile, Q4 smartphone sales utterly eclipsed PC sales, but where is this going?
Heavy haulage
Summarizing current analysis:
- PC sales have fallen from their 2011 365 million per year peak to 263 million in 2017.
- Smartphone sales have grown from a figure hovering around nothing in 2007 to 1.5 billion last year.
- China is the biggest smartphone market, followed by India and then the U.S.A.
“Soon consumer PCs will be extinct (only used by pro and semi-pro users),” claims mobile industry analyst, Tomi Ahonen.