The research company Strategy Analytics talked about the true extent of the decline in smartphone sales worldwide due to the coronaviru...
The research company Strategy Analytics talked about the true extent of the decline in smartphone sales worldwide due to the coronavirus epidemic.
It is reported by the BBC.
According to analysts, the recorded decline in sales is "the biggest drop since the invention of the smartphone."
The report said that smartphone shipments fell from 99.2 million in February 2019 to 61.8 million in February 2020.
“Some Asian factories couldn't manufacture smartphones, while many consumers couldn't or didn't want to visit retail stores and buy new devices,” she said.
February was supposed to be a big month for the telephone industry with its largest annual exhibition, Mobile World Congress, at which many new phones were unveiled for the first time. This event was one of the first major international events that were cancelled due to coronavirus.
Samsung, which introduced its latest flagship S20 phones in February, reportedly saw very small starting sales of these devices. Meanwhile, Apple warned that it would not be able to forecast profits, and said iPhone shipments around the world would be "limited."
“In February 2020, the largest drop in the global smartphone market occurred in history. The supply and demand for smartphones fell in China, fell in Asia and slowed down in the whole of the world. This is a time that the smartphone industry will want to forget, ”said Neil Mouston, Strategy Analytics Executive Director.
Strategy Analytics also reported that smartphone shipments will continue to fall during March, now that the virus has spread to Europe and the United States. Hundreds of millions of potential customers are now quarantined or reluctant to go to stores.
Also, previously, the creators of the popular benchmark Master Lu published an annual rating showing which smartphones are most often faked.
