Smartphone Market To Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due To the Memory Shortage Crisis (idc.com)
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- News link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/02/27/1917219/smartphone-market-to-decline-13-in-2026-marking-the-largest-drop-ever-due-to-the-memory-shortage-crisis
- Source link: https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/wwsmartphoneforecast4q25/
> Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to [1]decline 12.9% year-on-year (YoY) in 2026 to 1.1 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This decline will bring the smartphone market to its lowest annual shipment volume in more than a decade. The current forecast represents a sharp decline from our November forecast amid the intensifying memory shortage crisis.
[1] https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/wwsmartphoneforecast4q25/
\o/ (Score:1)
My goldfish and cat tell me they're tired of being targeted by mobile ads trying to drive another purchase and are going to stick with the five phones they have until they're all broken.
Re: (Score:2)
Good to know. The owners of cats and goldfish with older cellphones are 3.7% more likely to buy a new mattress during the 4th of July holiday sales period. I'll be sure to send you a personalized offer for a mattress. It's 99.999% pure!
Drop the bloat (Score:2)
Time for app makers to cut down the bloat.
Apollo went to the moon and back with less than 128KB - I'm sure you can write a tipping app using less than 12MB.
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The web is so heavy now. My phone is 3 or 4 years old and even with ublock origin some pages just bring it to its knees. I don't even blame the browser, the pages are just very long, complex, and content-rich.
Socking! A mature bloated market seeing a drop ?! (Score:1)
Shocking I say, 13% is almost in the margin of error so more likely it's a flat market in an extremely saturated mature market.
Global riots and vandalizing Target stores will commence in 3 minutes.
Bright side (Score:3)
Look on the bright side, maybe now that nobody can afford a new phone the right to repair movement will gain some traction.
Know what would make the market take off again? (Score:2)
AI, that doesn't suck, running locally on your phone.
You know who's most likely to get to the doesn't suck stage first?
The phone maker who makes money off hardware, and not ads and surveillance, which inherently suck.
Now, all they have to do is get their software under control again... *sigh*...
Totally unrelated prediction (Score:2)
Apple will report record profits in Q3!