The worldwide smartphone market is slowing down

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http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/4000x2668+0+0/resize/1200x800!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/midas/87a65c3b247b8c1fa7c6904f1f83ece0/202504045/469515718.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/20/gartner-world-smartphone-market-slowing/)There's a statistic (http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/03/23/more-people-have-mobile-phones-than-toilets/) floating around that says that nearly everyone on Earth has a smartphone, but just over half of them have access to proper sanitation. Between that stat and this report (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3115517) from Gartner (http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/13/acer-revenue-slip/), it looks as if a great many smartphone makers should think about starting their own toilet-making businesses. The research firm believes that while the smartphone market is still growing, that rate of growth has now dropped back to 2013 levels. That's because China, long-regarded as a rich seam of un-tapped phone buyers has been exhausted (http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/11/idc-china-market-report-q1-2015/), which is what's prompted these firms to turn to India (http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/10/google-revamps-android-one-india/) andAfrica (http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/18/google-android-one-africa/). If that all sounds a bit too business-y, here's the simplified version: everyone who can buy a smartphone already has one, and those people who don't probably can't afford them.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/20/gartner-world-smartphone-market-slowing/