{"id":8155,"date":"2011-02-09T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T20:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8155"},"modified":"2018-07-26T18:13:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:13:18","slug":"smartphones-outship-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/smartphones-outship-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphones Outship PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/htc_desire_android-S.jpg\" alt=\"htc_desire_android-S\" width=\"319\" height=\"350\" \/>FEB. 9, 2011 \u2022 According to research group IDC, consumer electronics manufacturers shipped more smartphones worldwide than PCs. The number of smartphones shipped during the last three months of 2010 were up 87% to 100.9 million, compared to 3% bump to 92 million PCs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Comparing sales of smartphones with sales of PCs is a perfect example of an apples to oranges analogy.\u00a0 For the past few years mobile phones have outsold PCs by an order of magnitude of around 3 to 1.\u00a0 By most accounts global PC sales showed nice growth in 2010.\u00a0 Meanwhile, mobile phone sales have been weak with the very noticeable exception of smartphones.\u00a0 However, even with smartphones the issue for content providers remains the same.\u00a0 Revenue per user is far lower on mobile phones than it has been on the PC.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEB. 9, 2011 \u2022 According to research group IDC, consumer electronics manufacturers shipped more smartphones worldwide than PCs. The number of smartphones shipped during the last three months of 2010 were up 87% to 100.9 million, compared to 3% bump to 92 million PCs. Impact: Comparing sales of smartphones with sales of PCs is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,78],"tags":[389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13801,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions\/13801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}