When was the last time you bought a new phone? Some people have a new phone every year, others have a phone that lasts 5 years or more. The media is full of ads showing new phones and manufacturers never cease to fascinate with new features and higher performance. Do you have any idea how many phones are sold worldwide? Most people don’t, luckily we can look at statistics from Statista that perfectly capture how phone sales have increased over the last 15 years.
Before 2010, less than 200 million mobile phones were sold each year, and while in 2008 it was 139 million phones, eleven years later it was ten times that number. What’s to blame for the 1,000 percent increase? It’s mainly the advent of smartphones, which are designed to replace a whole range of gadgets we no longer need. Their advent has had one positive impact: fewer cameras, discmen, MP3 players, radios, calculators and other electronics that the phone can replace are being thrown away. The negative factor is that people have learned to buy new phones very quickly.
When was the last time you bought a new phone? Some people have a new phone every year, others have a phone that lasts 5 years or more. The media is full of ads showing new phones and manufacturers never cease to fascinate with new features and higher performance. Do you have any idea how many phones are sold worldwide? Most people don’t, luckily we can look at statistics from Statista that perfectly capture how phone sales have increased over the last 15 years.
Smartphones have revolutionized
Before 2010, less than 200 million mobile phones were sold each year, and while in 2008 it was 139 million phones, eleven years later it was ten times that number. What’s to blame for the 1,000 percent increase? It’s mainly the advent of smartphones, which are designed to replace a whole range of gadgets we no longer need. Their advent has had one positive impact: fewer cameras, discmen, MP3 players, radios, calculators and other electronics that the phone can replace are being thrown away. The negative factor is that people have learned to buy new phones very quickly.
