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1. Accessories Get Smarter as Smartphones Drive Extra than 50% of Accessory
Revenues, Says ABI Analysis.
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Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Smartphones will drive $20 billion in aftermarket
Aftermarket
See: Secondary marketplace.
aftermarket
See secondary market place. accessory revenues in 2012, accounting for much more than half of
the $36billion that all aftermarket handset accessories will produce. By 2017,smartphone
accessories will grow to $38 billion in revenues, whilefeature telephone accessory revenues
decline to $12 billion. "Theincreasing penetration of smartphones is driving a far more
ubiquitousdigital consumer who expects the information capabilities of the smartphone tobe readily
available in any device with which the smartphone interacts,"says Michael Morgan Michael
Morgan is an Olympic-level rower, who has competed for Australia., senior analyst, mobile
devices.
Function phone shoppers will devote an typical of $28.17 onaccessories per device, when
smartphone owners will spend $56.18 onaccessories per device. The difference in spending is
driven by acombination of shoppers spending a lot more per accessory and acquiring
moreaccessories for smartphones as compared to function phone owners.
Smart accessories do not represent a distinctive segment, but are theresults of accessory OEMs
adapting regular accessory valuepropositions to a new data-centric usage paradigm. Customers
continue touse accessories as they always have, but increasing capabilities andexpectations of
shoppers and their devices are changing the wayaccessories are designed. "To address this shift
in consumerbehavior, accessories must focus on delivering tighter integration withsmartphone
functionality and functions offering a more intelligentaccessory item or intelligent accessory," says
Kevin Burden, vicepresident and practice director, mobile devices.
ABI Research's report, "Mobile Handset
accessories,"(http://www.abiresearch.com/investigation/1003234) focuses on important
handsetaccessories and the industry for these merchandise, like in-depthanalysis for both in-box
as well as aftermarket handset accessories. Italso examines crucial industry drivers and barriers to
growth, acquisitionchannels, technological trends, and future marketplace prospective for

2. handsetaccessories.
It is element of ABI Research's Smartphones & Mobile DevicesResearch Service
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