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The sale of devices such as tablets and smart phones has been booming in recent but that will change this year 2015 when it is expected less dynamic global demand. Last year, for example, global spending on consumer electronics grew only 1% indicate industry figures released yesterday in Las Vegas (Nevada) before the official start tomorrow CES 2015, the world’s largest consumer electronics quote end.
In 2014, it is estimated that spending on smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, cameras and game consoles reached $ 1,024 billion, just 1% more than in 2013 will require figures from a study conducted by the institute GfK and Electronics Association Consumer products (CEA), the organizer of the CES.
Steve Koenig, economist and spokesman for the CEA, said at a conference press has doubts about the sector this 2015 because while global demand for tablets falls, buying televisions and telephones seems to grow.
Koenig said coming emerging markets driving growth now showing signs depletion such as in Latin America. In this area, he added, there could be a 5% decrease in consumption of appliances this 2015 and the same could happen in European countries
The BRIC economies. – Brazil, Russia, India and China – are not growing and, in general, spending on final consumer technology has seen little growth since the immediate aftermath of the global recession period. In 2013 and sales had fallen by 1% according to the CEA and GfK.
What’s driven the industry in recent years has been the rapid sales growth smartphones and tablets.
Consumers spent $ 373,000 million smartphones in 2014, up 13% over the previous year. This year, CEA and GfK expect an expense of $ 406,000 million, 9% compared to 2014. Previously, smartphone sales grew in the range of 30% or more in each of the previous three years.
The money consumers spend on tablets has begun to decline, although the number of tablets sold increases. Consumers spent $ 67.4 billion tablets last year, down 1% compared to 2013. The CEA and GfK expect tablet sales fall 8% this 2015 to $ 62,000 million.
CES officially opens on Tuesday and ends on January 9.
Despite slowing growth, sales of smartphones and tablets, taken together, represent today 46% of all electronic products passing consumption worldwide, up from 22% in 2011, according to the CEA and GfK.
The question becomes industry is whether consumers will spend on new classes products. One of these sectors could be the Internet of Things, which is expected to be one of the major themes of the show this year. The Internet of Things is a term to describe everyday objects such as thermostats or appliances that have the ability to connect to networks or other and transmit the data collected from the sensors. That seems the big bet, and unknown, the sector.
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