Smartphone Growth to Slow, IDC Says

Smartphone growth will continue at nearly 10% annually through 2018, but that’s well behind increases in recent years.
IDC said Monday that global smartphone shipments in 2014 will reach nearly 1.3 billion units, an increase of 26% over 2013. But for 2015, IDC predicted, 1.4 billion smartphones will ship to retailers, only a 12% increase over 2014.
In many markets, the slowdown is happening because so many users already have smartphones and keep them longer in some cases.
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