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Future of devices
Smartphones, AI,
immersion and beyond
January 2019             gsmaintelligence.com   @GSMAi

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CONTENTS   1   Executive summary

           2   Device evolution: from personal to immersive

           3   Emerging categories: where are we?

           4   Competitive strategies

           5   Future outlook and open questions
4

Shape of the market
1
    Is 5G the catalyst for a smartphone revival? 5G presents a sea-change for device OEMs because of the speed and
    latency upgrades on LTE. Flagships will be released in 2019 from Samsung, Huawei, Sony and LG at least. Apple’s
    entry would be most significant, although it came late to the party with LTE and may well choose 2020 instead for
    5G. There is, however, a disconnect between what 5G can do and what consumers expect it to do. Over 50% expect
    faster speeds but only 25% think it will bring new services. This underlines the point that for immersive reality to
    take off and drive a step-change in sales growth, an iPhone moment will be required

2
    Pushing the home frontier. Smartphone ubiquity (90%+ ownership in high income countries) means it remains the
    focal point of the consumer internet economy. However, the range of connected devices (and therefore internet
    access channels) is now greater than ever, with US and UK households owning six each on average – from TVs to
    consoles to emerging categories such as smart speakers

3   More fundamentally, a 3rd wave of devices is upon us. Modern computing since 1980 has been defined by overlapping
    PC and smartphone eras. While smartphones are here to stay, we are in the early stages of a 3rd era – that of AI and
    immersive entertainment. Smart speakers, VR headsets and potentially glasses are the new form factors

4
    Contrasting fortunes on the hype cycle. Smart speaker ownership rates have nearly doubled in high income countries
    over the last 12 months to between 8–16% of households. While AI functionality is still rudimentary in the context of its
    potential, consumers are drawn to easy win use cases of music and 3rd party app integrations (e.g. Uber). Speakers are
    now where PCs were in the mid 1980s, leaving significant room to run. VR headset rates have flatlined or even declined,
    suggesting a trough of despair driven by weak content libraries, expensive devices and awkward social presentation

5
    New set of platform wars. Amazon, Apple and Google share a common vision of colonising the home via AI-enabled
    speakers as a channel to their core business. Amazon = vertically integrate e-commerce and Prime. Google = future
    proof Search by establishing a voice channel. Apple = extend the footprint of its services ecosystem. While this is a
    long game, the fact Amazon controls well over 50% of the market is an ominous sign for competitors. In VR, it would
    appear Samsung and Google have commanding positions with Gear VR and Daydream. Microsoft’s threat is longer
    term but significant: if it achieves the vaunted mixed reality (MR), VR would in effect become obsolete, making
    Microsoft a new leader in immersive entertainment.
CONTENTS   1   Executive summary

           2   Device evolution: from personal to immersive

           3   Emerging categories: where are we?

           4   Competitive strategies

           5   Future outlook and open questions
6

      The smartphone is still the centre of gravity
  • Smartphones have reached saturation in all but the hardest • However, the range of connected devices is now greater
    to reach demographic groups in the US, Europe and advanced than ever, which is reshaping how people interact with the
    Asia. Ubiquity means it remains the focal point of the       digital world
    consumer internet economy – with no obvious end in sight

      Which devices do you own?
      Germany view, 2018
100

 80       88%

                                  74%

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 40

 20                                                     27%
                                                                     22%          20%
                                                                                            15%
                                                                                                                       2%                           4%
                                                                                                         7%                           8%
  0   Smartphone       Tablet    Laptop      Desktop   Gaming     Smart TV       eReader   Fitness   Smartwatch Connected           Smart       VR Headset
                                                       Console                             Tracker                Health           Speaker
                                                                                                                  Device
             Smart devices        Personal computing             Entertainment                        Wearables                        AI and immersive

                                                                                                              Source GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018)
7

  But saturation means that growth now resides in
  developing countries…
• The flipside of reaching saturation is    Smartphone ownership. Emerging market youth are                                                          coming…
  that replacement rates have lengthened. Advanced economies in this chart includes US, Canada, France, Australia and Japan
  In the heady days of 2011–12 the average   100%

                                                  Percent of population
  consumer got a new smartphone every
  2 years but this has since drifted to 3.5   90%

• The removal of operator subsidies and
                                                                          80%
  income stagnation have played a role
  but more fundamentally it is because
                                                                          70%
  the user experience is driven by the OS
  and apps layer – both of which can be
                                                                          60%
  updated over the air, reducing the need
  for a new device
                                                                          50%
• Future growth resides in emerging
  markets. 5 countries – China, India,                                    40%
  Nigeria, Indonesia and Pakistan – will
  account for 50% of the 1.5bn new                                        30%
  mobile internet users between 2018–25
• Beyond getting devices in people’s                                      20%
  hands, the more nuanced challenge
  will be how to engage customers that                                    10%
  are mostly young, lower income, non-
  English speaking and that lack access                                    0%
                                                                                      18–24                25–34               35–54               55–64                   65+
  to services taken for granted in western
  countries (banking, health, education)                                  Advanced economies   Indonesia     Kenya   Nigeria      Pakistan
                                                                                                                                         Source GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018)
8

 …where there is an insatiable appetite
   for mobile data
• Figures reported by operators in           Mobile data traffic – up and away
  a clutch of countries in south Asia        Growth rates are for quarterly mobile data traffic per customer vs. same quarter of the previous year
                                                                                                                                                                            +200%
  suggest per customer data usage
  rates are rising between 30–90% a
                                        8
                                                                                                                                                                                    7.8
  year. India is an extreme example, with
  data usage tripling for the incumbent 7
  for Airtel, although this is driven by
  disruptive pricing from Jio           6   GB per user per month
• This type of early evidence suggests
  a very strong latent demand for data
  among consumers in lower income
                                        5
  countries – perhaps because mobile
  phones are for many people their first4                                     +32%
  experience of the internet
                                        3                                            3.4
                                                                                                         +32%
                                                                        2.6                                                                                           2.6
                                        2                                                                       2.1
                                                                                                                            +50%                    +90%
                                                                                                   1.6
                                        1                                                                                          1.0                     1.0
                                                                                                                      0.7                     0.5
                                        0                                Sri Lanka                 Philippines        Bangladesh                Pakistan                  India
                                                                          (Dialog)                   (Globe)          (Grameen)                 (Jazztel)                (Airtel)

                                                                    June 2017          June 2018
                                                                                                                                         Source GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018)
9

 A brief history suggests device innovation cycles
 are shortening
• Modern computing can be segmented                                                 Personal                                    Smart                       AI and
  into three overlapping eras over the                                              computing                                   devices                     immersion?
                                                                      100%
  last 40 years

                                              US household ownership (2018)
• PCs dominated for 20 years and while                                        90%                                                      91%
                                                                                                                                       Smartphone
  ownership rates are still above 70% in
  high income countries, innovation has                                       80%                                78%
  all but died out, leaving the market to                                                                      Laptop
  commodity makers                                                            70%

• The iPhone is arguably the most
                                                                              60%
  transformative product ever, reflected                                                                                                            56%
  in the fact smartphones reached                                                   51%                                                            Tablet
                                                                              50%
  ubiquity in only 10 years                                                         Desktop computer
                                                                                              42%
• While smart devices are here to                                             40%             Gaming console
  stay, we are in the early stages of                                                                                                  34%
  transitioning to a 3rd stage – that of AI                                   30%                                                      Smart TV
  and immersion
                                                                              20%                                                                              Smart Speaker
                                                                                                                                                               16%
                                                                              10%                                                                               9%
                                                                                                                                             8%
                                                                                                                                                                VR headset
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                                                                              0%
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                                                                                                                        Source GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018). US only
10

 The home is the new frontier, particularly for AI
 and immersion
• The home has for several years been      Smart devices per household
  seen as the next frontier of device      Base: adults aged 18–64. Wearables are per person with at least one wearable. Home devices are per household with at
  innovation                               least one smart device. Assumes an average household size of 2.5 people
                                           6.0
                                                                5.6
• Survey numbers bear that out. The                                                                   5.6
  average household in the US and                                                                                                              4.9
  UK now has 6 smart devices. And          5.0
  remember this is the average of all
  households
• The TV remains the main communal         4.0

  media consumption point but the
  change to note is the nascent rise of
  smart speakers                           3.0

• Amazon launched this category with
  the Echo in 2015 and while ownership
                                           2.0
  rates are still only 8–10%, they have
  doubled in the last year and will
  probably do so again in 2019 as prices
                                           1.0
  drop
• The harder challenge is to vertically
  integrate a disparate set of home        0.0
  devices onto a single platform, with                         US                                    UK                                       France
  competition principally between
                                                 Smartphones        Wearables (per person)   Smart energy meter        Home security device      Connected appliance
  Amazon, Google and Apple                       Smart TV           Set-top box              Entertainment devices     Smart speaker

                                                                                                                     Source GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018)
CONTENTS   1   Executive summary

           2   Device evolution: from personal to immersive

           3   Emerging categories: where are we?

           4   Competitive strategies

           5   Future outlook and open questions
12

       Smart speakers. The quest for vertical integration
   • Smart speakers have grown in                       • Amazon and Google’s first mover                                • The strategic value of smart speakers
     popularity more than almost any other                advantage is still reflected in their                            resides in access to data and AI, where
     household electronics category the                   commercial dominance, accounting for                             functionality is rudimentary. Secondary
     last 12 months. Results from our survey              85% of sales units worldwide                                     questioning is weak and integration
     suggest that ownership rates have                                                                                     with 3rd party apps (booking an Uber
     nearly doubled in high income countries                                                                               or checking into your flight) remains
                                                                                                                           limited. In short, this category has
                                                                                                                           significant room to run

       Smart speakers on the rise across the board…                                        …and, for the time being, its an Amazon/Google story
       Percent of households                                                               Smart speaker shipments (US, UK, Germany, France, China)
0.20                                                                                       Amazon
                                                                                                                                                                                     9.7
                                                                                                                                 4.1

0.15            16%                                                                        Google
                                                                                                                                                           6.7
                                                                                           0.4

0.10                                                        11%                            Alibaba
                                                                                            0.5
          9%                                                                                0.1
                                            8%
                                                                                           Apple
0.05                                                  6%                                             1.0
                                                                                            0.5
                                4%   4%                                       4%
                                                                                           Others
                           1%                                          1%
0.00           US          France    Germany               UK           Japan                  0.2
                                                                                                           1.5

                                                                                           0               1.0   2.0      3.0          4.0   5.0     6.0         7.0   8.0     9.0              10

         2017       2018                                                               0         Q4 2016               Q4 2017
                                                                                                                                                                                Million

                                     Source GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018)                                                           Source Company reports, Business Insider
13

               VR hardware. Stuck in the trough of despair?
               VR headset ownership rates still stuck in techie territory                                             • On average, only 6% of the population in
                                                                                                                        developed countries owns a VR headset, with
Household ownership

                 14%
                                                                                                                        take-up rates basically flat in the last year
                                                                                                                      • Early hype in 2015 was rooted in VR being the
                 12%                                                                                                    logical next step for gaming and consumer
                                                                                                                        entertainment but a combination of weak
                                                                                                                        content libraries, expensive devices and
                 10%
                                                                                                                        awkward social presentation have tapered
                                                                                                                        expectations
                                                                                                                      • There is also the problem that, for gaming,
                      8%                                                                                                traditional consoles are still owned by 40%
                                                                                                                        of HHs and sufficiently high-spec that the
                                                                                                                        upgrade path to VR is not yet compelling
                      6%
                                                                                                                      • Google, Microsoft and Facebook are
                                                                                                                        continuing development alongside a raft
                                                                                                                        of start-ups, with patent registrations and
                      4%                                                                                                R&D activity up. The presence of supporting
                                                                                                                        technologies (5G, edge compute) will also
                                                                                                                        help
                      2%
                                                                                                                      • Consumer adoption is, however, unlikely to
                                                                                                                        move above 10–15% in the next year
                      0%   Australia    Canada   France   Germany    UK         Japan         USA          Total
                       2017      2018
                                                                    Source GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018)
14

  AR has more potential
• AR is often coupled with VR as the siblings of immersive             Ecosystem of supporting technologies for AR
  reality but its potential is significantly higher
• Part of this stems from a seemingly endless range of                                Virtual attendance                  360º advertising
  enterprise use cases including retail, fashion design,                                of sports events   Ultra-light    platforms
                                                                                                            headset
  automotive and aerospace. GE, Bosch and Boeing are all
                                                                        Visualisation of
  active in testing                                                     patient’s health
                                                                        condition
• Apple has also made clear its bullish expectations in AR                                 Mobile                                  5G
                                                                                       processors and                          connectivity
  through the A12 bionic chip announced alongside the                                    5G modems
  iPhone 8 in 2017 and built into subsequent releases
• Its product demos have showcased situations where
  consumers superimpose real-world information through                  Virtual                                                                Crop data

                                                                                                           AR
                                                                        educational                                                            visualisation
  iPhones and iPads. Home furniture (IKEA), airport information         trips in                                                               through
  (American Airlines) and children’s stories are examples               historic                                                               drones
                                                                                           Platform                            Developers
                                                                        scenes             and APIs                                            footage
• Smart glasses or lenses would be the holy grail form factors                                                                tools and kit
  and take AR to the next level because they remove hand
  involvement. Unfortunately, computing power requirements,
                                                                                                           AR content
  silicon processing and safety regulations mean that these
  could be years away
                                                                                                                              Virtual fitting rooms
• The fact that Apple is interested is, in itself, a key factor that                Holographic
  could significantly accelerate development                                        assistance in                        Virtually design and
                                                                                    site inspection                      customisation of products

                                                                                                                                Source GSMA Intelligence
15

  Eventual convergence to mixed reality?
• AR and VR sit on a reality continuum where the       What is needed for an MR platform?
  purely physical and digital worlds form each end
• At present, most of the applications developed
  in immersive entertainment sit close to either
  extreme (Pokemon Go, for example, is an AR
  app near the physical extreme). The longer term        On-device capabilities              Edge cloud features                  Immersive Experience
  development path is towards the middle estuary
  ground where the physical and digital worlds are       Long battery life, intensive        5G, power efficient                  High quality sound,
  indistinguishable – so-called Mixed Reality (MR)       computation capable,                ultra low latency,                   stereoscopic display,
                                                         ergonomic design,                   high availability, local             6DoF video, accurate
• No devices currently have the capability to            language processing,                interactive content, virtual         motion tracking, rich
  support experiences across the spectrum.               voice recognition, gesture          voice assistant                      visual and interactive
  Microsoft is the most advanced with HoloLens           recognition                                                              content, context-aware
  and a set of immersive devices that occlude a                                                                                   services
  person’s view of their physical surroundings.
  Glasses or lenses would be the ultimate form         Where devices exist on the mixed reality spectrum
  factor but there are major computing and latency     Reality continuum reproduced based on original image on the Microsoft developer centre website
  requirements to hit before that becomes possible
• Consumer acceptance of MR goes beyond the                                                     Mixed Reality
  experience itself to how easy it is to forget they
  are wearing a device at all. Ergonomic design is                                                                              Windows immersive
                                                                    Microsoft HoloLens today                                    headsets today
  therefore a crucial factor to get right in would-
  be form factors
                                                                    Mobile phones today                                     Mobile phones today

                                                                                             Source GSMA Intelligence, Mixed Reality schematic based on Microsoft
CONTENTS   1   Executive summary

           2   Device evolution: from personal to immersive

           3   Emerging categories: where are we?

           4   Competitive strategies

           5   Future outlook and open questions
17

  Apple
• The iPhone remains the bulwark of Apple’s business,                Apple device sales since the iPhone
  accounting for 75% of units and 60% of revenue in Q4                                                                             Apple becomes the
  2018. The fact this remains true 10 years on from launch is                                                                  2nd largest smartphone
                                                                                                                                   vendor with 15% of
  testament to its staying power                                                                          iPod classic is         global market share
                                                                                                            discontinued,
• But as the device has peaked, the next 10 years will be more                                           Apple to kill off
  complicated and rely on new features to sustain replacement                                           all iPods in 2017                               26
                                                                                                                                                 10
  rates. AR is top of mind, with the ecosystem already beginning                                                                       55
  to scale (alongside the usual rumours of AR glasses)                                         iPad sales peak                 14
                                                                                                                     26                         46      44

• Forays into new categories beyond the iPhone and iPad have                         iPad sales reach
  focused on wearables and, more recently, smart speakers                               60% of global     35                   68
                                                                                        tablets share                71
• The company has never disclosed sales units for Apple Watch
  so it is hard to gauge performance. High end prices, a dearth                                           58
  of unique use cases and the need for a tethered link to the
  iPhone confine this product line to a niche audience                                          43
                                                                                                                                       231     212      217
• Apple is a late entrant to smart speakers, announcing Home                                                                   169
  Pod in June 2017, 2 years behind Amazon’s Echo                                                32
                                                                                                                    150
                                                                                       50
• Low market share will not alarm the company given that it                                              125
  will not compromise on quality or security even if it means a                54          7
                                                                      55                        72
  slower time to market. The recent acquisition of SilkLabs is a
                                                                                       40
  signal that it still has work to do in improving the AI engine               21
                                                                      12
• The longer term vision is to consolidate the home in both          2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
                                                                                                                                                              estimate
  hardware (iPhone, iPad, TV and speakers) and platform (iOS
                                                                      iPhone        iPad       iPod       Other (AirPods, Watch, AppleTV, HomePod)
  and Siri) but this is a highly competitive space and unlikely to
                                                                                                                             Source GSMA Intelligence, Apple reports
  have one winner
18

  Google
• Google’s device strategy has always           Google Daydream VR                                              Google outpacing Amazon
  revolved around increasing the number        • Google started building a VR experience                        and Microsoft in number of
  of channels to its core search business        with mobile phones with the release of
  rather than selling hardware per se. For       Daydream in 2016. Daydream is a mobile 300 2013–2016
                                                                                                                AI-related filed patents
  10 years, Samsung, LG and a clutch of          VR content platform intended for use
  Chinese manufacturers symbiotically            with a limited set of phones including the250                                                                        14
  pollinated the Android ecosystem,              Pixel, Galaxy S8/S9 and few others
  allowing Google to successfully transition                                                           200
                                                                                                                        43
                                               • No new versions to the OS have been                                                            18
  to mobile with relative ease                                                                                                                                       120
                                                 released. The priority is to expand app
• The focus now is on expanding reach into       support and usability of Daydream for                  150
                                                                                                                        110                    108
  the home and immersive entertainment –         Android and Chrome
  a more difficult proposition                                                                         100
                                               • Google has said a standalone
  Google Home                                    headset that would not require a tether                                                                             125
                                                                                                           50
                                                 is ‘coming soon’ although no date                                      80                     78
• Two-pronged strategy of integrating
  the smart home and, secondly, future           has been given. Google’s venture arm                      0
                                                 is also backing the well-funded AR                                     2014                   2015                 2016
  proofing search through its Home
                                                 start‑up Magic Leap                                              Google          Microsoft          Amazon
  speakers and AI powered Assistant.
  Its patent portfolio in AI reinforces the
  significant R&D investment it is making
                                                AI-related acquisitions                                     Jetpac                                   Api.ai            Banter
• The company remains a strong number
                                                             CleverSense          DNNresearch   Deepmind    Emu         Timeful          Moodstocks           Halli Labs
  2 in sales share to Amazon but this may
  be the best it gets: Google doesn’t have                                                            Park Blue Labs
                                                                                                                              Granata                            AIMatter
  a content or e-commerce business such                                    2012
                                                                                                       Vision Factory
                                                 2010      2011                          2013       2014             2015               2016             2017              2018
  that Apple or Amazon do that naturally
                                                                                                                                    Source GSMA Intelligence, CB Insights
  lends itself to voice control
19

 Amazon

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• Amazon has established itself as a global platform company, having built the       US speaker market
  underlying technologies and sufficient scale that now enables it to expand into    until 9/2018
  (and disrupt) different areas of the commerce market. Its capabilities also make                         4% 3%                       Amazon
  a global leader in consumer facing AI and enterprise cloud services (AWS)                                                            Google
                                                                                                          6%
• Amazon released the Echo, its smart speaker powered by AI assistant Alexa,                                                           Apple

  in 2015, marking a new era of home automation. Since then, it has increased                                                          Sonos
  the Echo line-up with other smart home devices such as the Echo Dot and                           27%                                Other
  Plus (speakers), Echo Show and Spot (smart displays), and Echo Look (smart                                              60%
  camera)
• Amazon has aggressively marketed and priced its smart speakers to gain
  scale and share; profits from hardware sales are not the primary consideration.
  Market share is falling with the growing competition, but Amazon remains
  dominant in the US

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• Alexa will be increasingly deployed for vocal commerce: users will be able to      Global market share by vendor
  order more Amazon goods through a growing list of third-party integrations,                                                          Amazon
  including delivery drones                                                                                    5%                      Google
                                                                                                          7%
• Alexa’s platform offers software development kits (SDKs) that allow third-                         9%                31%
                                                                                                                                       Xiaomi
  party developers to build skills for the AI assistant and other manufacturers of                                                     Alibaba
  hardware to integrate the Alexa assistant into their products. Amazon is keen                                                        Baidu
                                                                                                    13%
  to build an open ecosystem that is compatible with almost anything, a key                                                            Tencent
  element of its platform strategy                                                                                                     Apple
                                                                                                      10%
                                                                                                                    25%
• As user engagement shifts from smartphones to speakers, Amazon is ensuring
  it can still sell both products and content services to its consumer base
                                                                                            Source GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018), CB Insights
20

                           Team China
• Chinese vendors have gained                                                              • Whilst dominating their home market                          • With new form factors such as
  significant share in the global                                                            for smartphones, the greatest inroads                          smart speakers more of a developed
  smartphone market, replicating the                                                         overseas have been in emerging                                 market play, an unanswered question
  success of Chinese manufacturers                                                           markets, particularly India and Africa                         is whether the Chinese OEMs can
  in other sectors                                                                                                                                          replicate success in smartphones in
                                                                                                                                                            new device categories

                           Chinese OEMs now take 40% of smartphone sales                                            What isn’t made in China?
Global smartphone sales (millions)

                                                                                                                                  3

                                                                                                                    Global rank
                                                                                                                                                Stock exchange
                                                                                                                                                equity

                                                                                     333      370       357
                                                                      193                                                                           GDP
                                                                                                                                  2
                                                       94

                                        85
                                                                                                                                             Population           Ships             TVs
                                                                                                                                                                                          Smartphones
                                                                     572
                                                      517
                                       417                                           552      526       533                       1

                                                                                                                                                                                                        PCs
                                                                                                                                                          Cars            Fridges

                                      2012           2013            2014           2015     2016       2017
                                                                                                                                  0
                                     Chinese (Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Lenovo, HTC)                                            0%   10%      20%        30%   40%       50%      60%   70%     80%         90%
                                     non-Chinese (Samsung, Apple, LG, Nokia)                                                                                     China as a percentage of global scale/output
                                                                                                                                                                                           Source GSMA Intelligence
CONTENTS   1   Executive summary

           2   Device evolution: from personal to immersive

           3   Emerging categories: where are we?

           4   Competitive strategies

           5   Future outlook and open questions
22

  Impact of 5G
• 5G presents a sea-change for device OEMs both       From what you know of 5G, which, if any, of the following would
  because of the speed upgrade and, crucially,
                                                      you expect 5G networks to deliver?
  latency gains that bring AR and VR into play        Based on 16 advanced countries
• Manufacturers have been cagey on public
  announcements but the expectation is that a
  raft of flagships will be released in 2019 from
                                                            54%
  Samsung, Huawei, Sony and LG at least
• Apple’s entry would be the most significant of
  all, although it came late to the party with LTE
  and may well choose 2020 instead for 5G                                    41%
• Mobile operators will likely approach 5G in the
  same way as LTE: a set of 3–4 flagship handsets
  buttressed by a range of lower-spec models.
  Subsidies are unlikely to be reintroduced, which
  could slow initial take-up                                                               25%
                                                                                                         23%               22%
• Beyond smartphones, there is a reality gap.                                                                                                20%
  Despite the technical R&D and content efforts
  to drive VR and AR, consumer expectations for
  5G still centre on faster speeds
• To some extent this is not surprising because the
  average consumer would not know what AR and             Faster          Improved      Innovative     Improved    Lower service        New devices
  VR are. But it does underline the point that for        speeds          coverage     new services home broadband    costs             (e.g. wearables,
                                                                                                                                      appliances, vehicles)
  immersive reality to take off, an iPhone moment
  will be required                                                                                     Source : GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018)
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  New platform wars on the horizon?
• The Apple/Google duopoly in the smartphone era has long             Smartphones                    VR headsets                Smart speakers
  been entrenched. Android’s 85% overstates Google’s true             Smartphone and smart speaker shares for Q1 2018. VR share for 2017
  reach because of forked versions in China but the reality is
  clear: attempts at a ‘3rd option’, be it Windows Phone or                                                                                 10%
  others, failed
                                                                                                             22%
• As this reach has allowed Apple and Google to build huge
  ecosystems – effectively digital economies – around their
                                                                                                             4%
  platforms, a natural question is whether history will repeat in
  new device categories                                                       63%                                                           50%
• In VR, it would appear that Samsung and Google have
  commanding positions at this point with Gear VR and                                                        46%
  Daydream respectively. However, Microsoft’s impact is
  arguably as big or bigger. While it doesn’t manufacture VR
  devices, it has opened APIs to others like Acer and Dell and is
  in any case focused on the long game of achieving MR, which
  would in effect make VR obsolete. Apple is a non factor (for                22%
                                                                                                                                            35%
  now) with HTC and Oculus (Facebook) occupying the smaller
  premium segment                                                                                            27%
                                                                              15%
• The smart speaker market is a higher stakes game because
                                                                                                                                             5%
  the platform is only as good as the AI. Amazon’s position
  with Echo is a worrying sign for competitors. There is a clear
  strategy of vertically integrating its e-commerce and Prime         Apple      Google      Samsung        HTC       Oculus      Amazon
  business, and it also is well ahead in 3rd party apps that work     Non-Samsung Android                   Other
  with Alexa
                                                                    Source GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018), Strategy Analytics, Super Data Research
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  A renewed life for wearables in healthcare?
• Wearables have suffered anti-hype, part of which has come from          A role for wearables in preventative healthcare?
  the fitness space                                                       UK view

• Jawbone and Fitbit can be credited with introducing mass market
  wearables for the fitness conscious. The lid on their growth

                                                                         Share of population
                                                                                                                                                              Sell-in opportunity?
  prospects is that most of what can be done on a wearable can                                                                                        58%
  also be done on smartphones, which everyone owns
• However, the use of wearables to help manage health conditions
  is a far less exploited space despite it being a long term financial
  and operational challenge for many countries
• In the UK, King’s Fund data indicates that 58% of the over 60s
  population has a chronic health condition. Chronic patients
  account for 50% of doctor appointments, 64% of hospital
  outpatient visits and a staggering 70% of hospital bed days
• The long term drain on health systems and funding gap to
  address it continues to make the case for preventative measures.                                                22%
  Wearable connected devices do not replace physicians but
  could take on intermediate tasks such as reminding people to
  take medications or provide remote readings to doctors                                               14%
                                                                                                                                                               12%
• It is not clear whether paltry ownership rates (2% in the UK from
  our survey) indicates a lack of awareness or willingness to pay
                                                                                                                                  2%                                         2%
  among consumers. In either case, this is a void waiting to be
  filled, with a cadre of forward thinking insurance companies like                                            Under 40                                      Over 60
                                                                                               Chronic illness incidence        Own fitness tracker     Own connected health devices
  Vitality beginning to use wearables as an incentive mechanism
  for healthier lifestyles                                                                                                 Source GSMA Intelligence consumer survey (2018), Kings Fund
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