Apple Inc. (AAPL): Is the Smartphone Boom About to Fizzle?

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Despite analyst projections that handset sales will increase by a third in 2013, which sounds like pretty robust growth regardless, it’s below the 36% growth realized in 2012 — which itself was down from 50% growth the year before.

The smartphone industry isn’t about to keel over and die tomorrow, but investors should realize that the order of things is changing, and today’s winners won’t be the same ones we see tomorrow.

The article Is the Smartphone Boom About to Fizzle? originally appeared on Fool.com.

Fool contributor Rich Duprey has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends and owns shares of Apple.

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