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sensei258
I've thought about the saturation issue for my neighborhood here in Japan. Seems every business that closes reopens as an AU. Softbank. or Docomo store. It's worse than Staba.
Noble713
Earth has a population of ~7 billion. Of course you can't sell 330 million phones per year indefinitely.
This is much like the decline in desktop computer sales over the past ~6-8 years. People were quick to call it the "death of desktop computing" but it was nothing of the sort: simply, everyone who needed a PC had bought one, and performance had plateaued so you didn't need to replace them frequently.
We are seeing the same thing with smartphones now: practically everyone has one and they are capable enough that buying a new one every year is unnecessary for most users. Companies need to stop relying on an economic/business model that implies endless growth.
CGB Spender
+100!