Slower market growth and lack of dynamics in IDC’s latest long-term forecast, could it be mistaken?

The International Data Corporation, IDC, has come up with a new long-term forecast that attempts to predict how the smartphone market is going to look like in 2019. And while it’s not exactly a depressing forecast, let’s just say it foreshadows the end of the wild and dynamic days of the mobile industry, which we’re currently enjoying.

According to IDC’s data, the growth of the global smartphone market is already showing signs of slowing down, with year-over-year growth in 2015 expected to stand at around 10.4%, down from the considerably more inviting 26.3% in 2014. Last year, …

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