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A sickness hanging over the computer sector has infected smartphones and is set to drag the global device market into the red for 2015 – well, from a shipment perspective, anyway. According to the mystics at Gartner, 2.395 billion computers, tabs, ultra mobiles and smartphones will be shipped into channel this year, a decline …

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  1. Mikel

    They will refactor again in January

    They will report in January that for the fifth consecutive year their projection was high for Microsoft's Windows PCs and their guess for Google's Android powered devices was low.

    Microsoft is the biggest purchaser of their "analysis". I am sure that has no bearing on this perpetual error.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Well, duh!

    of course "users are extending the lifetime of their devices". It's bleedin' obvious to anyone having at least one neural cell left in good order.

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  3. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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    Evil Flippy laugh

    Did I hear the "dollar appreciating"? I can't hear you behind all the economic problems for kidsdollar and EURO containers.

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