You would think that half the world has an iPhone, but there are not that many. However, Apple has sold an absurd number of iPhones.
So many iPhones have been sold since 2007
When Steve Jobs was on stage in January 2007 to announce the first iPhone, he spoke of a ‘revolutionary product’. Of course he knew that the iPhone would be appreciated, but that Apple’s smartphone would do so well?
Now 18 years old, Apple has reached an unprecedented milestone. Since the launch of the very first iPhone, the company has sold more than three billion devices. This news was recently announced by Tim Cook during the presentation of the quarterly figures from Apple.
A small overview of Apple’s milestones:
- 2016: the first billion iPhones sold;
- 2021: According to experts, Apple has exceeded the border of two billion. The company has never made statements about this;
- 2025: Three billion iPhones have been sold. In just four years, Apple has sold a billion more iPhones.
More than 8 billion people now live on the earth. And of course a large part has bought several iPhones in all those years. But that means that a good number has ever had an iPhone.
Number of iPhones in the Netherlands
But how many of the Dutch have an iPhone? Unfortunately, there are no data from recent years, but in 2022 Apple had a market share of 36 percent. Then around 4.7 million Dutch people had an iPhone. In 2018 this was around 30 percent. If we then take a chance, this number should now be around 40 percent.
Android vs Apple
Android devices are often just a little more popular than iPhones. But in the first quarter of this year, Apple was the largest smartphone buyer in the world according to analysts from Counterpoint Research. This made the iPhone the best -selling smartphone of the first quarter of a year for the first time.
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