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Anyway, lets work it out to an approximation. As per the link below Apple's  installed base in Jan 2018 was 1.3B, an increase of 300M in 2 years:

We’ve achieved a significant milestone with our active installed base of devices reaching 1.3 billion in January. That’s an increase of 30% in just two years, which is a testament to the popularity of our products and the loyalty and satisfaction of our customers.

(source http://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/02/01/apple-active-installed-devices-base-january-2018/ ) 

That increase was between Jan 2016 and Jan 2018. Not all of these are iPhones I suppose but as an approximation I am going to assume they are all iPhones for now. 

1) The installed base increased by 300M devices.

2) However we know that about 427M iPhones were sold in the last 2 years. 

(source https://www.statista.com/statistics/276306/global-apple-iphone-sales-since-fiscal-year-2007/ )

3) If the 427M devices were sold only to existing users, then the installed base would have increased by 0 users. If all of the 300M extra installed base were Android switchers then the number of Android switchers would be in the region three quarters of new sales which it isn't, per this report. 

4) Instead, the Android switchers accounted for ~85M of the 300M increase in the installed base ( 20% of 427M). 

5) As an approximation then, the rest of the increase of about 215M in the installed base is out of 400M sales must be be people who are getting a second hand device, for the first time. 

This is approximate. From that figure for IPhones you need to subtract the increase in the installed base of the other devices. Except for the watch though, I don't think the rest of the devices add up to much of that increase. Apple doesnt break it down for watches, but it does for Macs. 

You also need to take away defectors from the platform. 

Nevertheless theres clearly a lot of people not retiring their phones but passing them on. 

gatorguy said:

Soli said:

;@"tallest skil" nailed it. Points! ߏ榬t;/div>

Rather than rummaging thru recent posts what did TX "nail"? 

Mojave desert. He called it first. ( From the screen shot from Steve Stoughton)

nunzy said:

Who do they think they are? If Apple is so horrible, then they can simply go somewhere else. Who needs 'em?

nunzy said:

Who do they think they are? If Apple is so horrible, then they can simply go somewhere else. Who needs 'em?

Me. I need apps that Apple don’t supply. Apple also needs developers to supply those apps. That’s why they have SDKs and court developers at the WWDC. 

ajmas said:

sellerington said:

Here in the UK companies like Sky, Virgin and TalkTalk provide smart tv boxes that are far more capable than  TV. I have difficulty justifying buying an  TV when I receive a free box that can record multiple channels at once as well as access Netflix and download or stream movies from the provider. I can’t see any UK provider offering  TV in place of their own tv boxes.

For recording functionality you may be right. For everything else they are all solvable by providing a software solution, in this case an app for the AppleTV.

My provider (Bell Canada), which provides an IPTV solution, provides an app that allows me to watch all the channels they offer, their on-demand content and even offers PVR functionality (the latter being in beta). So, with the right software any hardware can be you cable client. In France, Free.fr even allows you to use your PC for this. 

Any company that demands you use their hardware exclusively, is very quickly going to look out of touch. 

Well in this case that French crowd are using Apple TV only.

You are right that the only issue is recording, which in fact can be solved in software too, but the issue there is not software ( since recording can be set in an app) but the relatively paltry storage size of the AppleTV and the fact that the app itself will be sharing space with other apps. So you may be ok with the tenth and oldest episode of Poirot being deleted because of a new episode in an existing internet setup box, but in a shared environment it may be deleted because you downloaded some game, or the game didn't download and you needed to launch the TV app, or the specific vendor app to delete some episodic content manually.   

People don't want to worry about memory management. 

launfall said:

Solar would not have been the best option in Ireland...sunny days are rare and short-lived.

Wind is better but Ireland does have long summer days, as does Britain. Even today mid spring sunset is as late as 9:10 pm in Dublin and sunrise is 05:32. I think the latest is about 10pm and earliest 4:50 or so. Dublin is to the north of all cities in the contiguous US and most large cities in Canada. 

Of course this means short days in winter.

As you suggest  Ireland should do is off shore wind farms. It is never not windy in the Atlantic west of Ireland, even when the island isn't bothered by wind. 

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-21.58,49.19,1332/loc=-10.526,53.184