1,591,092,250 x how much profit. They could build a spaceship with that kind of cash.
Posted on 03/31/2016 11:24:38 PM PDT by Swordmaker
“In Apple’s first 40 years it shipped 1,591,092,250 computers,” Horace Dediu writes for Asymco. “This shipment total is higher than any other computer company in its first 40 years. Actually there are no other PC makers that are 40 years old. One computer maker (IBM) is older but they only sold PCs for 24 years and what they still sell they don’t sell in high numbers.”
Dediu writes, “Combining the history of customer creation and customer preservation with the value obtained from each customer implies that the next 40 years will be about creating another large tranche of customers whose willingness to spend on whatever Apple creates will be relatively unchanged.”
“We don’t know the limit,” Dediu writes. “One billion was hard to imagine even one year ago. We might see two billion devices in short order. Perhaps not. Perhaps as we have a multitude of devices about us all day the number will become less meaningful. But if the number of middle class customers grows and as Apple keeps its products within their reach, there is no reason to think that there will be a reversal of the last 40 years in terms of customer acquisition.”
Tons more in the full article – highly recommended – here.
April Fools!
Which is why Cisco sued Apple for infringement for the iPhone name it owned. Sorry, but Apple is the biggest intellectual property thief on the planet, by their own admission.
>>Also, Google’s Android OS was also produced in 2007, the same year Apple introduced iOS. Apple wasn’t exactly an innovator.<<
I was trying to give credit where credit is due. Whether followers or innovators, Apple popularized the PDA interface which is largely unchanged to this date.
I wonder how long Apples fanboy base can sustain them? They haven’t come up with anything truly new in years (the iWatch was a “me too” copy of the Google and Android watches from 3 or 4 years before).
The only thing left is surgical implants, which I wager Fanboys would line up for.
O silly CodeToad, your hatred of Apple need not inhibit you from reading. The "iphone" name (a.k.a. "I PHONE" and many others) had been around in various forms since 1993. Cisco acquired one of the companies that had an "iphone" named product in 2000, and yes they were in talks with Apple about licensing and so forth. The "minor skirmish" (Cisco's word) between them and Apple was rapidly settled without a payment, just an agreement that both companies could use the name.
Indeed, I humbly suggest you might do a bit of research, perhaps starting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone#Intellectual_property
The NES was a fully functional computer that also played video games. Except it wasn't because of DRM. Same problem the iphone has. No walled garden is a fully functional computer. Macs can take unapproved third party software so they're the only Apple product that qualifies as a fully functional computer, unjailbroken iphones, ipads and ipods can't so they don't.
Source:: http://www.statisticbrain.com/nintendo-company-statistics/
The Compaq iPaq was named after Apple's iMac came out in 1998 and tried to piggy back on the iMac name popularity. You distort history to confuse people who do not know theirs.
CISCO's IOS is an operating system for ROUTERS and SWITCHES, not for general computers. Again, you distort history.
Android in 2007, introduced after the iPhone was introduced was a knock off of the BLACKBERRY, complete with a QWERTY keyboard and resistance screen. Try to not distort history.
Once again you lie. No social media trolling from me.
Apple is taking 94% of all cellular phone industry profits. 94%! Samsung is taking 11%. Who gives a damn about market share when they have the lion's share of the profits.
Turned out Cisco no longer owned the name because they had neglected to re-register their Trademark in a timely manner, plus it was not registered as a trademark for a mobile phone or devices, which are two separate categories in the Trademark office, so it was free to use for that purpose, which is how Apple had successfully registered it as a trademark.
Apple and Cisco settled amicably in less than a week with a cross licensing agreement which allowed Cisco to use the "Iphone" name—upper case "I"—for desktop phone systems and Apple the "iPhone" name—lower case "i"— for mobile devices.
Fanboy base is a false characterization for Apple's customer base which now numbers over 800 million discrete customers around the world. That is not a "fanboy" base, that's 11% of the world's population!
Thanks for the refresher course. I had posted the case on FR at the time.
Your employer must get really pissed at you for taking so long. Then again, they probably don’t get back to you with
the appropriate talking points soon enough.
All we remember is that you claimed it was “impossible” for even Apple to crack the phone, yet, it was trivial as we said.
That, and Apple claims record hundreds of billions in profits but then, like the liberals they are, they claim they cannot possible afford to build their products outside of China.
Nothing but typical liberals. Steal other people’s ideas then claim them as their own.
40 years have gone by, amazing! My 1977 Apple II still runs to this day. How many antique computers can say that? And mine can talk. It has a Mockingboard speech and stereo board. I upgraded it to boot with USB sticks and microdrive cards. And I know of others who are using Apple II’s to act as remote terminals to their Macs. I also have a 20th Anniversary Mac in my living room as an entertainment machine, with its built-in TV, CD stereo with woofer - still working at 20 years old. No other computer company is still around from the 1970s making home computers like Apple, with the high quality of Apple products..
“I wonder how long Apples fanboy base can sustain them? They haven’t come up with anything truly new in years “
This argument always amazes me. Most companies haven’t had one market-creating innovation in their entire history. Apple has had four. And now the company is doomed because it hasn’t reinvented a market in Five! Whole! Years!
And you could arguably count the Apple Watch, which has sold more units than every other smartwatch combined in less than a year on the market, but it hasn’t had anywhere close to the impact of the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
>>This argument always amazes me. Most companies haven’t had one market-creating innovation in their entire history. Apple has had four. And now the company is doomed because it hasn’t reinvented a market in Five! Whole! Years!<<
Tablets has been around long before the iPad. The iPhone was the last true innovation and that was a heck of a lot longer than 5 years.
I have consistent in noting that all Apple does it take stuff and clean it up some. They have “me too” for a LONG time.
They may have a broader line of products than, say, Nokia but saw what happened to them by mere endless tweaking.
Apple sold ten times more tablets in the first quarter the iPad was on sale than all previous tablets had sold in the previous in the past decade, freedumb2003. In fact, Apple sold more iPads in the first weekend than ALL previous tablets had ever been sold combined! All previous tablets were essentially failures. Apple actually invented a tablet that worked, didn't require a keyboard and stylus, did not weigh five pounds, did not have a battery live of under two to three hours, and most importantly was successful. That was market-creating innovation.
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