The question is obviously provocative for a product that sold more than a billion units last year.
While all the elite of mobile telephony are gathering from this Monday until Wednesday in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, it is nonetheless burning some lips.
Can the smartphone, a technology icon of the last twenty years, falter?
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The high mass of the sector opens with a worrying observation.
In 2023, and for the sixth consecutive year, smartphone sales declined, by around 3.4% according to the IDC firm.
Equipment rates plateauing in mature countries, constraints on customers' purchasing power, lack of disruptive innovations... The market is shrinking and the shelf life of these devices is lengthening.
Faced with the weakness of alternatives, this decline has long been described as Arlesian by the industry itself.
This is no longer the case.
“This is the big question facing the smartphone industry: what type of device…
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