Apple has sold more than 1 billion iPhones
Apple CEO Tim Cook at an employee meeting on Wednesday said the company recently sold its one billionth iPhone, a watershed moment for the popular smartphone.
Cook told employees gathered at Apple's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters that the billionth unit was sold sometime last week.
"Last week we passed another major milestone when we sold the billionth iPhone," Cook said. "We never set out to make the most, but we've always set out to make the best products that make a difference. Thank you to everyone at Apple for helping change the world every day."
Late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs introduced the world to iPhone in 2007. At launch, the unassuming candybar smartphone was touted as a communication device, mobile web browser and iPod -- then Apple's bread-band-butter product -- wrapped up in a single package. Since then, iPhone has improved through nine iterations and four major redesigns to become one of best-selling handsets on the market. Not coincidentally, the device now accounts for a lion's share of Apple's profits.
The news comes a day after Apple announced tepid sequential iPhone sales growth for the third fiscal quarter of 2016. While iPhone sales saw another year-over-year contraction, the company posted $42.4 billion in revenue and quarterly net income of $7.8 billion, beating Wall Street expectations.
Looking ahead, Apple is widely expected to introduce a next-generation iPhone model at a special event this fall. Rumors and parts leaks suggest this year's update will come with minor tweaks to the existing iPhone 6 series design, the biggest modifications being a 3.5mm headphone jack deletion and a dual-camera setup for the 5.5-inch model. The most recent rumblings say "iPhone 7" -- or "iPhone 6SE -- will replace the traditional push-button home button with a capacitive Force Touch version, though evidence backing up those claims has yet to surface.
Cook told employees gathered at Apple's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters that the billionth unit was sold sometime last week.
"Last week we passed another major milestone when we sold the billionth iPhone," Cook said. "We never set out to make the most, but we've always set out to make the best products that make a difference. Thank you to everyone at Apple for helping change the world every day."
Late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs introduced the world to iPhone in 2007. At launch, the unassuming candybar smartphone was touted as a communication device, mobile web browser and iPod -- then Apple's bread-band-butter product -- wrapped up in a single package. Since then, iPhone has improved through nine iterations and four major redesigns to become one of best-selling handsets on the market. Not coincidentally, the device now accounts for a lion's share of Apple's profits.
The news comes a day after Apple announced tepid sequential iPhone sales growth for the third fiscal quarter of 2016. While iPhone sales saw another year-over-year contraction, the company posted $42.4 billion in revenue and quarterly net income of $7.8 billion, beating Wall Street expectations.
Looking ahead, Apple is widely expected to introduce a next-generation iPhone model at a special event this fall. Rumors and parts leaks suggest this year's update will come with minor tweaks to the existing iPhone 6 series design, the biggest modifications being a 3.5mm headphone jack deletion and a dual-camera setup for the 5.5-inch model. The most recent rumblings say "iPhone 7" -- or "iPhone 6SE -- will replace the traditional push-button home button with a capacitive Force Touch version, though evidence backing up those claims has yet to surface.
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How the hell do you know what Steve would have done? I'm sick of these well if Steve were here, Apple would do this, or Steve would have done this. Steve isn't here anymore...give it a rest already! Steve isn't god and isn't everything some people made him up to be.
This isn't modeled after iTunes giveaways or a competition where some wizard at some computer watches each iPhone sale made in all time zones in all parts of the world and notifies corporate when they reach a number.
I still wonder how a person can agonize over S. Jobs and feel clairvoyant enough to channel a dead man's thoughts and never exercised actions. Or maybe some one is retired and it gives hope to get through the day, though an insult to the judgement of the person who selected Cook to manage Apple.
Now in all seriousness I think that people reference Steve Jobs because, because they do it jokingly, and some like to reminisce and some because they feel that Tim Cook is not doing a great job as Apple's CEO. There is probably some truth in all of that.
Tim's good at what he does. What he doesn't do is try to act like Steve.