Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.
Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.
Phones also aren’t special anymore. Like the days where phones were flashy and people needed the best/newest phones are gone. Everyone knows everyone has a phone, nobody cares what phone it is. It reminds me of like 2004-2008 when laptops were a big deal and then everyone had one and it became a tool and people stopped caring what you had.
I had an iPhone day 1 in 2007 and it was pretty crazy. I was at a store looking around and being ignored by all the sales people. I pulled my iPhone out and checked my email real quick, and multiple sales people came over to check on me. At the bar some girl asked to try it and said it was better than a puppy for getting a girls attention. The cell phone kiosk in the mall would always hassle people to try and sell cases; when they asked what phone I had, I told them an iPhone and instead of trying to sell me a case, they just freaked out and wanted to see it.
I didn’t even flex it or show it off. It all just kind of happened, even being pretty low key.