According to the survey of eMarketer, the smart phone users of 2013 is 1.311 billion, which is expected to reach 1.639 billion in 2014, an increase of 25.0% over the previous year. In 2015, it will reach to 1.9146 billion people, for the first time accounted for more than a quarter of the world's population.
According to the survey, by the year of 2018 there are one-third of the world's consumers will be smart phone users, which is a total number of more than 2.561 billion people. That means it’ll increase 1 billion people in five years which will account for more than half of the global number of mobile phone users. Feature phone market will shrink further.
Why is this happening? On the one hand, as developing countries such as China and India are emerging more and more affordable and feature-rich high performance parity smart models; On the other hand, the changes brought by the smartphone will be accepted by users, which will consolidate the smartphone market too. From 32.4 percent in 2013 to the expected market share of 51.7% in 2018 can also be seen.
You also need to note that the number of smartphone users is gradually growing slowly. In 2013, the annual growth rate is 34.3% and in 2014 it’s estimated at 25.0%. Until 2018, the growth rate will drop to 7.6%. Thus, with the increase in popularity of smart phones, you want to enter the market as early becomes not so easy. Only the smartphone manufacturers continually keep the continuous innovation can they truly have a place in the market.
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According to the survey, by the year of 2018 there are one-third of the world's consumers will be smart phone users, which is a total number of more than 2.561 billion people. That means it’ll increase 1 billion people in five years which will account for more than half of the global number of mobile phone users. Feature phone market will shrink further.
Why is this happening? On the one hand, as developing countries such as China and India are emerging more and more affordable and feature-rich high performance parity smart models; On the other hand, the changes brought by the smartphone will be accepted by users, which will consolidate the smartphone market too. From 32.4 percent in 2013 to the expected market share of 51.7% in 2018 can also be seen.
You also need to note that the number of smartphone users is gradually growing slowly. In 2013, the annual growth rate is 34.3% and in 2014 it’s estimated at 25.0%. Until 2018, the growth rate will drop to 7.6%. Thus, with the increase in popularity of smart phones, you want to enter the market as early becomes not so easy. Only the smartphone manufacturers continually keep the continuous innovation can they truly have a place in the market.
For more: http://www.dbx.com.cn/News/1