| ▲ | rsynnott 4 days ago | |||||||
... Where are you getting that? The iPhone _alone_ sells about 200 million units a year. There are almost 5 billion smartphone users; sales of 300 million a year would imply that those are only replaced every 16 years, which is obviously absurd. | ||||||||
| ▲ | oblio 3 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Oh, that was quarterly: https://canalys.com/newsroom/global-smartphone-market-q2-202... On a separate note, speaking of the average lifespan of a phone, I'm fairly sure that with how expensive they're becoming, smartphone lifespans are increasing. Especially with: * hardware performance largely plateauing (not in the absolute sense, that of "this phone can do most of what I need") * the EU pushing for easy battery and screen replacement and also for 7 years of OS updates * the vast majority of phones having cases to protect against physical damage | ||||||||
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