Apple IPhone sales set to pass 1B milestone
In a rare achievement for any
consumer electronics company, Apple is about to sell its billionth IPhone.
According to Benedict Evans, partner at venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, half
of the IPhone’s total has been sold in the past two years. Mr. Evans added that
Apple had sold a total of 397m IPods when it stopped reporting sales in 2014,
while the IPhone is close to the 1.1bn unit output of the entire Japanese
digital camera industry from 1999 to 2015. “The cumulative number of PC sold
since 1981 was to pass 5bn this year, while Nokia at its speak in 2010 sold
454m mobile phones in a single years,” Mr. Evens continued.
Always according to Evens,
Microsoft wanted to put a computer on every desk, the vision of the smart phone
is now a computer in every pocket. Nonetheless, the Apple landmark comes at a
time when the drive is flagging for the nine-year-old smartphone. This is said
because Analysts expect IPhone unit sales to be about 15 to 18 percent lower
than the same time last year. Apple chief executive Tim Cook explained this by
saying that by the “strong macroeconomic headwinds, which is causing some
customers to hold on to older devices for longer, as well as low-cost
competition in Asia and a resurgent Samsung, whose Galaxy S7 is out selling the
IPhone 6s in the US.”
Source: THE DAILY STAR, Lebanon
Original article by Tim Bradshaw
Meena Badran, 3eme1
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