r/technology • u/rdh2dmd • 7h ago

Business Apple trails Samsung as global smartphone shipments hit a 13-year low

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/10/12/apple-trails-samsung-as-global-smartphone-shipments-hit-a-13-year-low
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u/Shoddy_Meaning_7654 6h ago

Consumer electronics are dying sadly.

This won't hurt apple they are siphoning money from us via services that's the real money maker now.

What they're going to do is probably shut down more stores lay off more working class employees and innovate even less

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u/dropthemagic 5h ago

That's like saying cars are dying. Phones are what we use the most in our lives for everything. Might not be a brand or a new one. But it's no longer optional to have a smart phone

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u/Shoddy_Meaning_7654 3h ago

Obviously but I think the era of people buying a lot of consumer electronics often it's dying because people are getting poorer jobs are getting less comfortable and common and I think things like TV and audio equipment are just going to become rich people things they're going to stop being things that working class people buy.