The worst year of the smartphone market in history: world supplies fell by 4%
In 2018, world supplies of smartphones fell by 4.1%, and buyers received 1.4 billion devices, the IDC report said. This is the worst year of the smartphone market in the history of observations. Read more. According to the vice president of the mobile department of IDC Ryan Reit, chaos is happening on the smartphone market. With the exception of dynamically developing markets of India, Indonesia, Korea and Vietnam, nothing positive happens. In the IV quarter, 375.4 million devices were shipped.