There are now more iPhones sold than babies born in the world every day
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Re: There are now more iPhones sold than babies born in the world every day
#2I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this may not be a sustainable trend.
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#3Partially due to all the couples going to sleep with their phones?
Re: There are now more iPhones sold than babies born in the world every day
#4I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this may not be a sustainable trend.
That was my first thought, too. Then I realized that it just might be: the lifespan of an average baby is significantly longer than the lifespan of an average phone.
Now, if the statistic was Apple was selling more iPhones to new cell phone customers or even to people who'd never had an iPhone, then you'd be exactly correct.
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#7I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this may not be a sustainable trend.
Why not? Humans (hopefully) have a much longer lifespan than phones. This should stay true even if Apple merely retains their current market share.
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#8Partially due to all the couples going to sleep with their phones?
sexting must be through the roof
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#9Its interesting that this number, 400k per day, is significantly less than the 700k per day that Google has recently claimed to be activating.
Yet at the same time, the iPhone is %55 of Verizon's sales, and the iPhone is not the only iOS device, with the iPod touch doing pretty well (7M last quarter) and the iPad having essentially no competition and growing around %100 a year.
To me, this implies that a very large number of the android phones being activated each day are outside the USA, and I suspect to people who otherwise would have bought a feature phone. It looks like the difference in distribution (android's distribution is much broader since it has more hardware partners who have more longstanding agreements with more carriers) is the key to the difference in activation numbers.
Re: There are now more iPhones sold than babies born in the world every day
#10Its interesting that this number, 400k per day, is significantly less than the 700k per day that Google has recently claimed to be activating. Yet at the same time, the iPhone is %55 of Verizon's sales, and the iPhone is not the only iOS device, with the iPod touch doing pretty well (7M last quarter) and the iPad having essentially no competition and growing around %100 a year. To me, this implies that a very large n…
Sales numbers by Apple are hard, cold, verifyable numbers.
"Activations" is still a term that has no clear definition. Google has hinted at what they are (and are not), but even their meaning to Google in terms of the bottom-line are unclear.
Android is no doubt a phenomenon that is sweeping the mobile world... how does Google profit or succeed from this?