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Average lifecycle of new IT products drops to only 3 months

Ninelu Tu, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES Asia Monday 21 October 2013 0

The average lifecycle of new consumer electronics products such as tablets, smartphones and notebooks, has shrunk significantly to only about three months currently, down from six months originally, according to sources from the upstream supply chain...

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