While western governments worry over the threat of Ebola, a more pervasive but far less malign epidemic is spreading through their populations like a winter sniffle: mobile personal technology. The outbreak reached its height at Christmas, when gift-giving was predicted to take worldwide shipments of smartphones to a record 1.3bn units in 2014. The total will rise to 1.4bn in 2015, according to IDC, a market research firm.
在西方國家的政府擔憂埃博拉(Ebola)的威脅之際，一種更爲常見但遠沒那麼有害的流行病，正像冬天的輕感冒一樣在人羣中傳播，那就是個人移動技術。這一「疫情」在去年耶誕節時達到頂峯，有預計稱，送禮風潮將使2014年全球的智慧型手機出貨量達到創紀錄的13億臺。市場研究機構IDC稱，2015年全年的智慧型手機出貨量將增至14億臺。
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