On: Smartphone shipments decline 6.3%

[yakitori]

> 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.

[pjmlp → yakitori]

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.