MAR 28, ’16 11:02 PM
AUTHOR: Horace Dediu
In Apple’s first 40 years it shipped 1,591,092,250 computers.
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.
That does not make it the top seller in a given year. Looking at only the Mac, Apple’s traditional form factor personal computer, Apple has only returned to the top 5 last year. Only if including the iPad it was the top computer vendor in 2011 and including iPhone, it was first in 2009.
/Counting Apple II, Apple III, Macs, iPads, iPod touches, iPhones, but excluding Apple Watches, AppleTV, and other iPods, Apple shipped 1,591,092,250 computers in its first 40 years, more than any other computer company! — PING!
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>>Actually there are no other PC makers that are 40 years old.<<
100% true.
Apple did and does decide not to participate in capitalistic Darwinism.
Apple decided “this is our tiny slice — it is small but it is ours.”
It is certainly a model. We all know the iPhone saved them as a company. And no sane person can dispute that all the PDAs from other companies saw the iPhone OS concept as something worth copying/stealing.
Sadly, Apple has not had any breakthroughs (are they possible?) and just banks on its “us too, but a little better” incrementalism approach.
The phone feature wars are great for consumers but the decision to go iAnything is now more emotional than practical.
Good run though and no one should ever suggest Apple is not forever iconic in personal electronics.
“made in China”
Just saying.
Forty years is a very long time to be selling computers and have the loyal customer base that Apple has
April Fools!
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..