Effects Of COVID-19, Smartphone Sales In The World Drop

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JAKARTA - The Corona virus or COVID-19 is still shocking the world, because it is included in a deadly disease outbreak. The impact of this virus has also disrupted a number of industrial businesses in the technology sector.

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), smartphone sales in the global market experienced a sharp decline of 2.3 percent in the first quarter of 2020. Based on this research, at least smartphone developers experienced a production loss of around 1.3 billion products.

"COVID-19 is another reason to extend the current contractionary trend in the smartphone market, which reduces growth in the first half of this year," said IDC Senior Research Analyst, Sangeetika Srivastava, as quoted by VOI, Tuesday, March 3.

According to Srivastava, China received the biggest hit as a disruption of the world's largest smartphone supply chain. This has affected a number of smartphone vendors who have been forced to postpone the release of their smart devices.

Due to the need for adjustments to plans for new product releases in the midst of the COVID-19 situation, many factories and retail stores have been forced to close, travel restrictions to the problem of component shortages.

"Component shortages, factory closings, mandates due to quarantine, logistics and travel restrictions will create barriers for vendors to produce handsets and launch new devices," Srivastava added.

The IDC website also states that the 2020 smartphone drop-off incident is only a short scenario. The research company is optimistic that the 5G network mechanism in the future can promote a more stable situation in the third quarter of 2020.

"The overall scenario is expected to stabilize from the third quarter of this year, because the COVID-19 situation will hopefully improve soon, as well as the 5G plan that takes global steps," Srivastava explained.