
A covering IDC data offers a dire outlook for the smartphone market in 2026 due to the current memory chip crisis, but Apple and the iPhone could actually benefit in one key way.
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The global smartphone market will contract 12.9% in 2026 because of the unprecedented memory chip shortage, marking “a crisis like no other,” according to researcher IDC.
The new forecast, a dramatic revision down from earlier estimates, gives the latest accounting of the ongoing memory crunch that’








