Information Technology and Communications research
As I predicted last quarter the Information Technology and Communications market continues to grow. In total revenues reached $1.9 trillion (the highest of any quarter in history) in the quarter and $7.4 trillion in the year to the end of September – up 5% and 3% respectively. Net profit, however […] Read more »
A look at the major spending movements in the UTC market workdwide in Q2 2023 Read more »
How has the mobile device market changed since the pandemic? Can Apple maintain its leadership as we enter the era of consumer IoT? Read more »
The mobile device market is massive – in 2021 there were 1.7 billion shipments worth $545 billion and an installed base of 3.7 billion. Growth in the year was 25% in spending and 8% in shipments, although the installed base didn’t grow. The number of non-Internet enabled basic phones and […] Read more »
A look at the mobile device market and its carbon consequences Read more »
A look at the causes of the shortages of microprocessors Read more »
A look at the annual changes and future challenges of the mobile device and smart phone market Read more »
Apple is the largest IT company in the world. It’s revenues were $294 billion in 2020 – the equivalent of everyone alive on the planet spending $26.52 on its offerings. It’s business grew substantially on the introduction of the iPhone, expanded as we recovered from the Credit Crunch and has […] Read more »
How will the mobile device market behave during and after the pandemic? I look at the trends and publish a new forecast Read more »
A look at cloud computing spending growth, market shares and forecasts in Q1 2020 Read more »
My look at the 2019 market for mobile devices with a forecast to 2025 Read more »
Having made my predictions for the year, I wanted to follow up with the long-term vendor share developments in the ITC industry. In the Figure above I show market shares for the top 12 suppliers in the years to then of September in 2009 and 2019. There have been a […] Read more »
The hardware market will decline by 2.0% overall and only two product types – solid state drives and processors – will grow in 2020 (please note that I have excluded OEM sales from this forecast). Mobile device will be the one on which we spend most, but it will be […] Read more »
We look at the state of play in the mobile device market in Q2 2019 Read more »
5G mobile communications will be faster, deeper and wider than 4G, enabling new applications and is being tested in many countries planning to deploy in the next few years. Huawei is the world’s biggest supplier of Service Provider networks and leading developer and supplier of 5G base stations used by […] Read more »
A look at Apple in 2019 Read more »
An update on the Q2 2018 market form smartphones and some ideas about the need for more secure devices Read more »
An update of my mobile devices market based on my Q1 2018 findings Read more »
ITCandor announces the publication of its Q4 2017 mobile device data set Read more »