Indeed, anecdotal evidence
suggested mobile sales set a new record on Friday, data from Adobe Insights showed.
Not exact matches
All the data actually
suggests with the growth of
mobile, inbound
sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey)
During a summer conference for financial analysts, Michael Dell
suggested that the burgeoning
mobile market represents a chance to increase
sales of servers and other hardware.
LG and T -
Mobile haven't officially announced pricing for the upcoming G - Slate, but retailer
Mobile City has put up a product page showing a
sale price of $ 699.99, marked down from a
suggested retail price of $ 799.99.
Other users on the CrackBerry forums have confirmed that this is not an isolated move, and that T -
Mobile will be taking BB10 devices off the shelves nationwide,
suggesting that
sales have been extremely disappointing.
Benedict Evans had
suggested in his morning presentation that smartphones would prove a key driver of ebook
sales, and the afternoon's opening speaker, Andrew Bud of mBlox, the world's largest
mobile transaction network, ramped up the rhetoric with his assertion that «the
mobile device is your destiny».
This
suggests the freemium model will become even more entrenched in
mobile as developers, particularly social game makers, leverage the
sale of virtual goods and currency to generate revenue.
However, IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly
Mobile Phone Tracker report (via @fjeronimo)
suggests that
sales of Google Pixel devices doubled in 2017, reaching a total of 3.9 million units.