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Apple’s iPhone is the most successful product of all time

[cfsp key=”getamac.jpg”]”The iPhone is the most successful product of all time,” Horace Dediu writes for asymco. “Over 1.6 billion have been sold. Including the iOS products it spun off, the total is over 2.2 billion. Of those 2.2 billion sold, 1.5 billion are still in use.”

“There are about 1 billion iPhone users. Economically speaking, iPhone sales have reached one trillion dollars,” Dediu…

50% thinner 30% lighter 35x faster CPU 1000x faster graphics 5x pixels 25% greater color saturation 50% brighter 5x faster WiFi 23x faster LTE 16x storage

@asymco

I've been thinking about this tweet since yesterday nonstop. It blows my mind — even though we all know this — to see how much progress you can make with incremental changes over a long period of time.

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Interestingly: Battery life: exactly the same.

Determining the average Apple device lifespan

“In The Number, I provided a model for estimating the number of active Apple devices at any point in time. The relationship between active devices and cumulative devices sold gives us a rule of thumb that says that 2 out of 3 devices ever sold are active,” Horace Dediu writes for Asymco. “I propose now that knowing active devices and cumulative devices sold allows one to determine the…

Apple’s most important number

“The first number that Tim Cook mentioned in the fourth quarter investor conference call was the number of active Apple devices. The 1.3 billion monthly active devices is the most important measure of the health of Apple’s business,” Horace Dediu writes for Asymco. “It’s the primary way the company chooses to measure itself and it’s the best instrument available to understand the company’s…

When Apple Watch surpassed iPod

“The last time Apple reported iPod unit and revenues was for the third quarter of 2014. Thereafter the product segment called “Other Products” was used to include what was formerly the iPod segment and the ‘Accessories’ segment,” Horace Dediu writes for Asymco. “Exactly two quarters later Apple began to sell the Apple Watch. Apple Watch was not broken out as a separate product segment and…

Apple ships more microprocessors than Intel

“You’ve probably heard of Jony at Apple but probably don’t know about Johny,” Horace Dediu writes for Asymco. Jony is a celebrity executive known as the face of Apple Design. Johny is the executive in charge of custom silicon and hardware technologies across Apple’s entire product line. Under Johny’s leadership, Apple has shipped 1.7 billion processors in more than 20 models and 11 generations.…

Why Apple’s flagship OLED iPhone will be so expensive

“In the last few weeks, I’ve fielded numerous calls about rumors that an OLED iPhone will cost well over $1,000. While this might seem excessive, it’s really just basic supply and demand,” Tim Bajarin writes for PC Magazine. “It seems that media types inquiring about this subject either did not take economics in school or are just not seeing the big picture.”

“OLED displays are in high…