The market is changing rapidly. A few years ago we could not imagine that the number of notebooks sold annually exceeds the number of desktop PCs sold, and the price of the first drop to $ 200-300 for a model with average the smallest display. Continue to step into the smartphone market: Gartner experts suggest that this year the volume of their sales will increase by 52%, and in the low-end segment did double. The Chinese manufacturers in this year faster than competition increased sales volumes and market share. By 2018, according to analysts, nine smartphones will account for a simple mobile phone.
Tablets also losing popularity. Terms of their operation are increasing, and the norm is becoming a three-year use of the same model of the tablet. In addition, many people are drawn to the more comfortable and transformable hybrid devices that combine the advantages of a tablet and a laptop. If the segment, ultra devices share hybrids and Transformers this year accounted for 22%, while in 2018 this figure will increase to 32%. The category, ultra devices, as can be seen from the table, there will be too big.
Market for all devices, including PCs, laptops, tablets, hybrids, smartphones and mobile phones, for this year will grow by 3.2% to 2.4 billion Products. It is noteworthy that about 1.7 billion Devices at the same time will be sold in emerging markets, and the share of smartphones in the total number of devices will reach 71%. Dominant position will take the operating system Android. However, iOS and MacOS in absolute terms, too, will grow as people are attracted to them. Related Products :
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