China’s Cooling Smartphone Market Creates Zero-Sum Web Game

Tencent’s Honour of Kings mobile game

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Hi folks, it's Shelly Banjo. Raise your hand if dollar signs pop into your mind when thinking about China’s 1.4 billion consumers. That was certainly true for mobile-phone makers in the 1990s and until 2012, when the country surpassed the U.S. to become the world's largest smartphone market.

Now, basically everyone in China has a phone. That amazing China mobile growth story? Yea, that's over. And it's going to have a much bigger impact on China's tech industry than many people realize.