It is argued that without communication and modern digital electronics, many people would not be able to work during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Likewise, modern consumer technology is extremely dependent upon connectivity, processing, and memory/storage. With the general economic impact on many consumers,1 overall consumer technology sales will be down in 2020, but people are more dependent than ever before on their consumer devices to connect with others and continue (when they can) working at home. The reliance on web-based meetings, online education, and cloud-based services, in general, will increase as time goes on. After the pandemic ends, people will be more likely to participate in a virtual event and to look for virtual experiences to replace some physical experiences. This should drive increasing demand for bandwidth to support telepresence and virtual and augmented reality. This will also drive the consumer application and cloud-services industry.

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COVID-19对消费电子市场的影响

据认为，如果没有通讯和现代数字电子技术，许多人将无法在COVID-19大流行期间爆发工作。同样，现代消费者技术极其依赖于连接性，处理能力和内存/存储能力。由于对许多消费者产生了总体经济影响，1到2020年，整个消费者技术销售将下降，但是人们比以往任何时候都更依赖于他们的消费设备来与他人连接并继续（在可能的情况下）在家工作。通常，随着时间的推移，对基于Web的会议，在线教育和基于云的服务的依赖将增加。大流行结束后，人们将更有可能参加虚拟活动并寻找虚拟体验来代替某些身体体验。这将推动对带宽需求的增长，以支持网真以及虚拟现实和增强现实。这也将推动消费者应用程序和云服务行业。