Apple shipped its 3 billionth iPhone
Apple was the target of a good amount of criticism in the past year, from its faux pas on AI to a strong disgust for its new philosophy of design. But the figures do not lie, and if Apple knows how to do anything, it sells iPhones. Specifically, three billion of themAs CEO Tim Cook has announced that the company’s profits today.
It is an impressive number in itself, but it is even wilder when you consider that Apple accelerates the rhythm. The iPhone was introduced in 2007 and the company reached 1 billion iPhones sold nine years later in 2016. To reach only $ 2 billion five years; From there, it’s only four years to sell another billion. Given the speed at which young people – in this country, at least – prefer iphones to Android, this seems to be a trend that will not continue.
It is also a lot of eggs in a single basket. Apple’s own eddy picked recently admitted that “you may not need an iPhone in 10 years”. This should be quite worrying if your biggest company is to sell phones! The most notable incursion of Apple in a factor of prospective form has also not burned the world. He somewhat escaped his first attempts to also add significant AI features to his phones. At least from the outside, Apple does not seem very well prepared for this world that we could live in ten years.
The dilemma is clearly in Cook’s mind. Later in the call of gains when asked for the spell of phones as a dominant mobile platform, he mentioned that the company “also reflects on other things”, but thinks that emerging technologies “are likely to be complementary devices, no substitution”. The phones certainly seem to be sure in the short term, but perhaps all that Sam Altman and Jony Ive will prepare a little slowdown the Apple rolling on the path of its sale of four billion iPhone.
