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Commentators weigh in on whether Apple can ‘defy gravity’ in a declining smartphone market

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<p>Analysts believe that the smartphone has reached the end of its growth phase, and that the future is a declining smartphone market.</p>
<p>Even in markets like India, cheap phones mean that the market is not as far from saturation as you might think, so sales numbers may not increase markedly – people will just buy more expensive models. Does that mean that <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple[/url] can ‘defy gravity’ and keep its own sales constant, or even growing, while the smartphone market as a whole declines? That’s the big question, say analysts and academics …</p>
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