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Smartphone sales were down last quarter for every top five vendor, but Apple.

That is the word from Counterpoint Research.

In a post-posted late last week, the firm said the global smartphone market remained under pressure

in the first quarter of 2026, with shipments declining 6% year-on-year, driven by the shortage

of DRAM and NAND memory components,

and weaker demand.

Yeah, just because I took time off doesn't mean Ramnerock did.

One counterpoint analyst says the decline was mostly driven by memory makers

feeding the AI data center beast. That forced consumer

electronics makers to pay more for the parts they need, passing those higher costs onto customers.

Added to supply constraints or rising energy prices, higher logistics costs, and economic

uncertainty driven by tension in the Middle East.

That had a lot of people giving truly new devices a pass, going instead for new to them devices,

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