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Saf Malik
April 29, 2021
After LG confirmed the demise of its mobile division in early April, we gathered the industry’s thoughts
The demise of LG’s mobile division after 25 years was confirmed on April 5, with the disbanding of its smartphone operations expected to conclude by this summer.
Despite once being one of the world’s premium smartphone vendors, the South Korean company had seen 23 straight quarters of loss in the sector and struggled to gain any sort of foothold in the market in recent times.
LG’s mobile market share had steadily declined throughout the 2010s from eight per cent in 2008 to just one per cent last year.
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