Study: 2009 Mobile Accessory Market Valued at $63 Billion

A recent study of some 1000 mobile phone owners revealed that consumers spend on average $60 on accessories over the lifetime of their phone, primarily spent on chargers, but cases, batteries and memory cards were also popular choices. Predictably, the younger, sub-40 crowd was more prone to pick up accessories at the time of handset purchase. The bottom line is that $63 billion is a honkload of money. I mean, the handset industry itself was worth $190 billion in 2008, but the mere fact that little rubber skins and simple semiconductors can earn a third of some of the world’s most advanced tech is pretty damned impressive.

[via ABI]