You won't believe how many Apple devices are in use right now
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| There are now one billion Apple devices in use worldwide, the California technology giant confirmed |
Apple
posted a staggering profit of $18.4 billion – some £12.8 billion – for
the quarter ending December 26, having sold 74.8 million iPhones during
the three-month period.
"To put
that volume into perspective, it's an average of over 34,000 iPhones an
hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 13 straight weeks," said
Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Those figures
helped the Cupertino company hit a major milestone – one billion active
devices, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod touch, Apple TV, and Apple
Watch.
CEO Tim Cook said: "Our
team delivered Apple's biggest quarter ever, thanks to the world's most
innovative products and all-time record sales of iPhone, Apple Watch and
Apple TV.
"The growth of our
Services business accelerated during the quarter to produce record
results, and our installed base recently crossed a major milestone of
one billion active devices."
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| Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed the figure while announcing the company's Q1 2016 results |
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| iPhone growth was down from 46 per cent to 0.4, the slowest rate in the history of the smartphone |
Apple says it gathered this data by tracking device that interacted with its services within the last 90 days.
For
comparison, Google confirmed a total of 1.4 billion active Android
devices were currently in circulation worldwide back in September.
"We
have a huge number of devices actively engaged with our services and
that number is growing very fast," Apple chief financial officer Luca
Maestri said.
"If you think about
it in the context of how [other] internet services businesses are
valued, it seems very clear to us that our services business is not
valued correctly."
