Smart Speaker Installed Base will Reach 100 Million

Smart speaker shipments grew 197% year-over-year to reach a record 22.7 million units in Q3 2018 — the market will surpass 100 million units in use during 2018. Amazon remained the top-ranked vendor in Q3 with 32% market share, followed by Google at 23%.

via Strategy Analytics

Global Smartphone Shipments Decline, Again

Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 355.2 million units during the third quarter of 2018, resulting in a year-over-year decline of 6 percent. This was the fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year declines for the global smartphone market.

via IDC

Virtual Assistant Apps Adopted by Telecom Providers

More telecom service providers will invest in emerging technologies that enable them to improve operational productivity via automation, and introduce new capabilities for their customers. Virtual assistant applications are emerging, as telcos start to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

via Digital Lifescapes

The Four Waves of Augmented Reality (that Apple owns)

Since early 2015 we’ve said that Apple could deliver as great dominance and profitability in AR as it has in mobile today. These four waves could drive AR from tens of millions of users and $1.2 billion last year, to over a billion users and $83 billion by 2021.

Source: Digi-Capital

Media Tablet Demand Contracts Across the Globe

The worldwide media tablet market contracted in the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17) with total shipments of 36.2 million — that’s a year-over-year decline of 8.5 percent, according to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC).

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Smartphone Payment Apps will Reach 5.3 Billion Devices

Mobile payment service app adoption is on the rise. According to the latest worldwide market study by IHS Markit, 3.4 billion smartphones will be ready for Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google’s Android Pay by the end of 2017 — that will increase to 5.3 billion devices by 2021.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Mobile Wallet Global Spend to Reach $1.35 Trillion in 2017

The major players in the smartphone ecosystem are driving growth with value-added services. The emergence of several high profile mobile payment service offerings has provided the sector with much needed new growth opportunities.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

How Personal Assistants will Transform Our User Experience

Gartner’s annual mobile applications survey found that 42 percent of respondents in the U.S. and 32 percent in the UK used VPAs on their smartphones in the last three months. More than 37 percent of respondents (average across U.S. and UK) used a VPA at least one or more times a day.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Global Mobile Wallet Market to Grow Rapidly Through 2021

According to Technavio, the global mobile wallets market is expected to witness an impressive growth rate. The worldwide market was valued at $1,221 billion in 2016 and is expected to surpass $4,175 billion by 2021.

Source: Technavio

Global PC Market Decline will Continue into 2017

Personal computer (PC) vendors will remember 2016 as yet another year where their hopes for a market growth recovery failed to materialize. Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to decline by 6.4 percent in 2016, according to the latest worldwide market study by IDC.

Source: Digital Lifescapes