The Most Popular Product Of All Time 367
Apple announced Wednesday that it has sold more than one billion iPhones. To understand the magnitude of the milestone, Asymco's Horace Dediu has compiled a list of the best-selling products across several categories. From his post (link shared via email by reader JoshTops):Car model: VW Beetle 21.5 million; car brand: Toyota Corolla 43 million; music album: Thriller 70 million; vehicle: Honda Super Cub 87 million; book title: Lord of the Rings 150 million; toy: Rubik's Cube 350 million; game console: Playstation 382 million; book series: Harry Potter Series 450 million; mobile phone: iPhone 1 billion.
The iPhone is not only the best-selling mobile phone but also the best selling music player, the best-selling camera, the best-selling video screen and the best-selling computer of all time. It is, quite simply, the best-selling product of all time. It is that because it is so much more than a product. It is an enabler for change. It unleashed forces which we are barely able to perceive, let alone control. It changed the world because it changed us. And it did all that in less than nine years. Update: 07/28 20:07 GMT by M :Dediu just told me that the list doesn't include consumable non-durable products.
The iPhone is not only the best-selling mobile phone but also the best selling music player, the best-selling camera, the best-selling video screen and the best-selling computer of all time. It is, quite simply, the best-selling product of all time. It is that because it is so much more than a product. It is an enabler for change. It unleashed forces which we are barely able to perceive, let alone control. It changed the world because it changed us. And it did all that in less than nine years. Update: 07/28 20:07 GMT by M :Dediu just told me that the list doesn't include consumable non-durable products.
BS "most popualar" (Score:4, Insightful)
There are plenty of others.. Like sliced bread, for example.
Re:BS "most popualar" (Score:5, Insightful)
Exactly, this is just an exercise in mental fapping.
Even then its still not the best selling product. Each model is a DIFFERENT PRODUCT.
Re:BS "most popualar" (Score:5, Interesting)
If they are counting all models of iPhone as one, they should count all Android phones as one too. In which case the iPhone is small fry - last year Android was estimated to have 1.4 billion active users.
Re:BS "most popualar" (Score:4, Insightful)
If they are counting all models of iPhone as one, they should count all Android phones as one too. In which case the iPhone is small fry - last year Android was estimated to have 1.4 billion active users.
All Android phones from different manufacturers? That's like saying if the most popular car is the Toyota Camry, then all American cars are more popular. Apple and oranges.
Re:BS "most popualar" (Score:4, Insightful)
The question is what makes for a valuable metric. For instance, let's play with the terms a bit more. Has Apple sold more phones than, say, Samsung or Nokia? I'm talking all cellphones, not smartphones. For the sake of argument (and because I don't want to bother digging up the statistics) let's say that Nokia sold more phones, when you include feature/flip/etc cheap-o's. Why is that number less or more relevant? Why include the 2g iPhone, but not those? Basically someone is making a choice of where to draw the line on the category, one way or another. It's a PR/marketing move, so of course Apple wants to do it in a way that puts them in a favorable light. You say apples and oranges, but I say they were comparing Apple sales to Car sales to Album sales. Why is it a bad thing to want to compare fruit to fruit, in that vein?
I mean, to play devil's advocate in another way, McDonald's has sold however many billions of hamburgers, but what does that tell us compared to smartphones?
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Re: BS "most popualar" (Score:3)
Since it took McDonalds 23 years to sell their 1 billionth hamburger (famously, on the Art Linkletter Show in 1963), and it only took Apple 9 years, I guess that tells us that iPhones taste better than McDonalds.
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Android OS is a product in itself. I bet Windows has sold more than 1 billion copies too, over all versions.
ARM processors definitely have sold billions, but not as many billions as some of the 8 bit ones. 8051 or Z80 perhaps. Depends what you consider a "product".
I bet BIC have sold more than a billion Biros. And disposable razors.
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If they are counting all models of iPhone as one, they should count all Android phones as one too. In which case the iPhone is small fry - last year Android was estimated to have 1.4 billion active users.
All Android phones from different manufacturers? That's like saying if the most popular car is the Toyota Camry, then all American cars are more popular. Apple and oranges.
Not really, an android phone is equal in scope to an iphone. That one company makes all the different versions of iphone and wont let anyone else make anything i... is irrelevant.
Also, I'm not a car guy but aren't toyotas Japanese? But in that example it'd be like saying the motorbike is the best selling transport when compared against fords, nissans etc
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Not really, an android phone is equal in scope to an iphone. That one company makes all the different versions of iphone and wont let anyone else make anything i... is irrelevant.
Would you compare all burgers sold by Burger King against the McDonald's Big Mac in a comparison. That's essentially what you're doing.
No, I wouldn't but that's essentially what they're doing. I get that they may well have sold more of the overall iphone line than say samsung have sold of the galaxy line or possibly even phones but the iphone is a special case. The modern smart phone market is basically ios vs android. the iphone is the only ios device, there are probably a million different makes of an android phone but there are more phones with android on them than ios but more idevices than any brand of android device. It's a shit comparison to start with and started as apples/oranges. Thanks for the toyota clarification though.
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No, I wouldn't but that's essentially what they're doing. I get that they may well have sold more of the overall iphone line than say samsung have sold of the galaxy line or possibly even phones but the iphone is a special case.
Why is the iPhone a special case? The Samsung Galaxy line is exactly like the iPhone line; different processors, different sizes, different specs. If Samsung wants to name all their smartphones "Galaxy" from now on, that's their choice.
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A cell phone is not a product. It is a component of a product.
How many of the old analog phones were in use in the previous system? Did anyone care or talk about it?
What about the road system? Surely that is the most popular man-made product ever. Two-tenths of one percent of the Earth is covered by roads/parking lots [quora.com].
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A cell phone is not a product. It is a component of a product.
So when I went to the store and bought cell phones all these years, Nokia, Samsung, Apple, Sony, they were not products?
How many of the old analog phones were in use in the previous system? Did anyone care or talk about it?
Not sure where you are saying but comparing a whole category of phones to one company's line is not a good comparison was my point.
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I'm saying that a cell phone is a commodity. Which is disaster for Apple of all companies.
As to comparing a whole category to one product, again we can look at old style phones. They were all the same, for decades at a time. When other companies were allowed to make and sell them, consumers didn't much care. Commodity item. Yawn.
One could argue that the Smartphone is the Calculator watch of cell phones. Just a passing fad, with basic functionality being all most care about. Again this is a disaster f
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They are both products in their own right. Same as nuts and bolts can be both products in their own right as well as components of other products.
Can you buy iOS? No you cannot. Can you "buy" Android? Not really. You can use it and license it.
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Sure you can purchase a copy of iOS or Android. You just have to also purchase (in the case of iOS) the phone it's bundled with. But that has nothing to do with my argument, which is that nuts and bolts can be both a product in their own right, and part of another product. Same as welding rods. Same as the toner you buy for your printer, which you then use to print up pictures for sale. Same as the gold in your phone. Same as water, which you can buy as a stand-alone product or as a component of Pepsi or Dr
iPhone vs Bible - 10 ways they look the same (Score:2, Funny)
So do Bible thumpers - and they've got a lot in common with Apple fanbois.
2. They both act smugly superior;
3. They both show the same behaviors as any other cult;
4. They both have over a billion sold;
5. They both end up costing a lot more to their average user than competing products (atheisim and android);
6. They both eagerly await the next revelation.
7. There's bugs in both - and the updates to "fix" them;
8. They both claim better security; 9. Th
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Like most stories with a bias. It all depends on how you want to categorize things.
For hardware brand Apple Wins. For a phone type Android may beat IOS. If you want screen manufacture perhaps Samsung will get it.
Politics does this all the time. The Republicans may ask if you liked Hillary Clinton. Over half don't so they make the point that over half may vote for Trump.
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They are also counting all models of the PlayStation as one.
I think products like the Bible or Quran are selling way more copies. But they don't have any usable numbers.
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Indeed, this is just cherry picking
The Bible has sold more than 6 billion copies; Agatha Christie books (they're including all the iPhones models as one lump quantity, we can include do the same with her books) has sold 2 billion books. Using the same logic, the Beatles have sold 2 billion albums. And these are just off the top of my head (stats all taken from statisticbrain.com [statisticbrain.com], I've no idea as to their accuracy but assume the numbers are within a reasonable margin of correctness ;-).
1 billion iPhones is a
Re:Planed obsolescence! (Score:5, Informative)
Apple supports their phones with updates longer than any other manufacturer. Even without updates, you can still use a first generation iPhone today.
Apple has been selling basically the same form factor -- the iPhone 5 for over four years.
- Call me when a car maker start to require you to replace your car every 24months (replacing the whole car, I mean. Literally. Not over billing you for a simple software update over some proprietary extension to the ODB port that they charge metaphorically as expensive as a new car).
Not only does Apple not force you to replace their phone every 24 months. If you bought an iPhone 4s in September of 2011, you are still receiving updates.
Apple hasn't sold DRM'd music since 2008.
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No one forces you to change phones every 24 to 36 months.
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I can't say I've ever had music or eBooks erased on me though. So far.
Re: BS "most popualar" (Score:5, Insightful)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
or the Bible at over 5 billion copies
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The Bible is also the world's most stolen product.
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Big Mac (Score:5, Insightful)
The Big Mac is the most popular product of all time.
Re:Big Mac (Score:5, Interesting)
This. Something like 14 billion Big Mac's sold.
Also, if they are grouping all the different model Iphones together, doesn't Toyota, Michael Jackson, etc get to group all of their similar products under one count as Apple got to?
Seems like one of the most fraudulent claims heard this ____ (insert arbitrary date range here)
Re:Big Mac (Score:5, Informative)
Errata- Looks like its more like 400 billion Big Macs (estimated), but they stopped counting.
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If you're going to count consumables Philip Morris may have something to say about who has the most popular product.
850 million cigarettes sold by Philip Morris .... in 2015.
Re:Big Mac (Score:5, Funny)
Apple also sells Big Macs. They call it the Mac Pro.
Well, it used to be big, anyway.
Re:Big Mac (Score:5, Funny)
And if you "register" your product, you get Fry's with it.
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Also, if they are grouping all the different model Iphones together, doesn't Toyota, Michael Jackson, etc get to group all of their similar products under one count as Apple got to?
Why yes, they should, oh wait, they did that already. They didn't list the 1997 and 1998 Toyota Camrys separately. They combined all the model years.
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I can't imagine that McDonalds has sold more Big Macs then it has sold regular hamburgers/cheeseburgers. In 2013 it was predicted McDonalds would be serving their 300 billionth burger (of any type).
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This source says nearly 400 billion estimated Big Macs https://www.reference.com/busi... [reference.com]
One guy has eaten more than 25,000 (lets see iPhone beat that)
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That source also says that it sells 900m a year. If it debuted in 1967, that was 49 years ago. 900m*49 = 44.1b. I think it's much more likely that 400b was a typo and supposed to be 40b. 400b would be about 259 Big Macs sold every second of every day for 49 years.
Follow the first search result [google.com] (or direct paywalled link [wsj.com]) for a WSJ article from 2013 about the 300 billionth burger estimate.
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Not a chance. Coke a Cola would beat it hands down.
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Which I really don't get, because the Quarter Pounder with Cheese is much tastier.
Re:Big Mac (Score:5, Interesting)
Not to mention things like Blu Tac, Sellotape, a lot of brands of condoms, Bic Pens, most brands of cigarettes.
Those are consumables. If you only look at durable goods, and you multiply the number manufactured by the useful lifetime, then I nominate the AK-47. Over 100 million have been manufactured, and many are still in use after more than 60 years.
Durable phone ? (Score:3)
Those are consumables.
Given how quickly smartphone obsolesce and how all manufacturer try to require you to buy a new one every 24 months max...
Well that isn't entirely inappropriate to compare smartphones and consumables.
If you only look at durable goods, and you multiply the number manufactured by the useful lifetime,
Wait, what ?
"durable goods" ? "useful lifetime" ? What the hell do these subjects have anything to do with a smartphone ?
Next, you're going to speak about battery longevity. Actual battery. The kind that holds for a couple of weeks instead of a couple of days/hours...
then I nominate the AK-47. Over 100 million have been manufactured, and many are still in use after more than 60 years.
Which would be very hard to say about smartp
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"Those are consumables. "
So is the iPhone. How many of the original iPhones are still in use?
Re:Big Mac (Score:5, Insightful)
Not to mention things like Blu Tac, Sellotape, a lot of brands of condoms, Bic Pens, most brands of cigarettes.
If you only look at durable goods, and you multiply the number manufactured by the useful lifetime, then I nominate the AK-47. Over 100 million have been manufactured, and many are still in use after more than 60 years.
Lord of War, while a little preachy, has one of the best gun comments ever: "the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It'll shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. " Perfectly sums up the engineering simplicity of the gun, as well as the mark (good or bad) that it has had on the world. But it definitely has made a much bigger impact on the world than the iPhone has.
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Not to mention things like Blu Tac, Sellotape, a lot of brands of condoms, Bic Pens, most brands of cigarettes.
Those are consumables.
So is the iPhone. ...
Apple do everything they can to stop you from using an iPhone for more than 2 years : sealed battery, unavailability of spare parts, software updates that make the phone slower and slower,
I have Bic pens that outlasted my phones.
If you only count only really durable items, I would go for the Zippo lighter. Half a billion have been manufactured and with proper care, they can last for more than a lifetime.
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I think the most popular product... (Score:5, Insightful)
Would be a knife. Everyone alive and dead has (had) at least one since longer than we've been human.
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iPhone is a series of models of cell phone. A knife isn't a brand. Maybe if you said a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife but I doubt they've sold a billion.
Even in the tech world, I can think of other things that have sold more than a billion. Windows licenses would easily be one of them. Intel processors routinely sell over 100m in a quarter.
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Would be a knife. Everyone alive and dead has (had) at least one since longer than we've been human.
Remember there is no spoon
Best selling product of all time? (Score:5, Interesting)
Look, I like my iPhone, but - I'm sure there are a myriad of products which have sold more than a billion units. Q-Tips and Reynolds Wrap are probably among that august group.
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Look, I like my iPhone, but - I'm sure there are a myriad of products which have sold more than a billion units. Q-Tips and Reynolds Wrap are probably among that august group.
Toilet paper. Pretty sure I've bought more than a billion myself.
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McDonalds passed 100 billion burgers in the 90s, the estimate today is 3-400 billion. And it's definitively changed America(ns) too.
Planned obsolescence... (Score:2)
Q-Tips and Reynolds Wrap are probably among that august group.
Things that you only use for a limited amount of time, before throwing them away and buying a new(er) one ?
No, no. I assure you, smartphones also qualify in this category...
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If we compared ALL Galaxy phones (S series 1-7 and so on) to ALL iPhones (1-6, c, se, plus, and so on) as this count is saying. I would think that Samsung would be in the lead. Hell, just look at global marketshare l
Um, if we ignore the Bible (Score:2, Interesting)
Recent estimates put the Bible at 5 billion copies sold.
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This was my first thought as well, particularly when I saw that LOTR was listed. I'd say that 5 billion is probably an extremely conservative estimate as well.
You'd be wrong there, it's around 150 million copies. While LOTR makes the "top tier" of lists of successful books, there's always an asterisk. For books there a "0th Tier", which are significantly above stuff like LOTR and Harold the Potter:
* The Bible
* Chairman Mao's Book You'll Be Shot If you Don't Buy
* The works of Shakespeare
* The works of Agatha Christie
If you look at the list of best selling fiction authors [wikipedia.org], you'll see the next 2 best sellers after Christie are both romance novelists, and you have
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Perception (Score:5, Funny)
It unleashed forces which we are barely able to perceive...
...except with an oscilloscope.
But seriously, hyperbolize much?
Re:Perception (Score:5, Funny)
It unleashed forces which we are barely able to perceive...
...except with an oscilloscope.
But seriously, hyperbolize much?
This is why marketing doesn't invite you to client facing meetings...
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Hi, I'd like to demo my new computer game, HyperboleCraft.
Give me a break. (Score:2, Troll)
Sorry, Apple fanbois, the iPhone is not the best selling camera of all time.
It may be the best selling "device with a camera" of all time, but it is not a "camera".
Furthermore: bic pens? razors? pine tree-shaped air-fresheners ... I would wager a bet these all sold more.
It has sold very well, yes, but let's not blow our load over it.
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As it turns out, just the BIC Cristal Pen sold one hundred billion by 2005 http://www.abc.net.au/radionat... [abc.net.au].
Lightbulbs (Score:2)
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accounting for total money value, as you suggest, will not make iphone get the absurd 'most popular product' title either.
total money value of variety of aircrafts(eg boeing 747) , and various industrial products, probably exceed iphones by several folds.
even in consumer products, as summery above mentioned, millions of toyota corollas, or variety of other cars, starting with model T, multiplied by their value exceed iphones'.
and if all iphone models are counted as one product , shouldn't all models of c
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The hyperbole is strong with this one (Score:2)
I won't argue that the iPhone is a successful product - clearly it is. The uncritical leap from reasonable statements about its success as a product to the "so much more" and "enabler of change" bugs me a bit. The blatant worship makes me question the entire article and leads me to believe that the reality is somewhat less profound. And that's too bad, because it takes away from the deserved praise that the iPhone and Apple should receive for their success. I've heard of "damning with faint praise". N
Not single products (Score:2)
The iPhone is not only the best-selling mobile phone but also the best selling music player, the best-selling camera, the best-selling video screen and the best-selling computer of all time.
There is no "the iPhone". iPhone is a model designation that has covered a family of phones. It's just as idiotic as saying the Toyota Corolla is the best selling car because each year the product is tangibly different than the year before. The Toyota Corolla sold today bears little resemblance to the one sold even 10 years ago much less 30. If they want to specify a particular build of those products then fine. But calling the iPhone brand a single product is just stupid.
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Indeed. Here [wikipedia.org] is a list of the best-selling cell phones ever. It is visibly ruled by Nokia.
One (two-part) word: Coca-Cola (Score:2)
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Who the hell is... (Score:2)
Asymco (the website that published this 'story')? Never heard of them. What makes them the authority on sales numbes?
Samsung Galaxy S? (Score:2)
If the iPhone is one product, how many Galaxy S have Samsung sold since the first one? The iPhone have its variants, Samsung has much more variants but still counts as 1 product, right?
This is as big fanboy clickbait article as it can be.
Ooopss (Score:2)
...sales NUMBERS..
Consumer electronics bullshit. (Score:5, Interesting)
FALSE COMPARISON (Score:2)
The iPhone is not a product, it's a brand. As in there are multiple different models.
When they compare it to cars, they compared it to specific models - the VW Beetle, the Lord of the Rings. They didn't compare it to all VW cars, or all Tolkien books.
That would have been a fair comparison.
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The Beatle did not go unchanged for it's production run and some of the changes where pretty significant including engine growing from 1100cc to 1600cc. So I would say it is valid. BTW they are wrong I would put money on Coke a Cola as being the most popular product of all time.
Oh, do hush (Score:2)
I dread to think what Horace Dediu was doing to himself as he wrote this, but I don't think it was sanitary.
It is, quite simply, the best-selling product of all time. It is that because
Because you've decided what counts as a "product" and what doesn't. How many cigarettes have ever been bought? How many copies of the Bible have sold? How many different versions of the iPhone are you bundling as a single product?
Bread? (Score:2)
What about loaves of bread? How many loaves of bread have been sold?
I'd call bread a product, certainly sold more than 1 billion loaves over the years. In fact, I'd bet quite a large sum of money far more than 1 billion loaves of bread have been made over the years and sold.
This seems like a desperate attempt to take a big number and wack off to it while claiming Apple is the greatest ever.
... and how many Android phones sold ever? (Score:2)
Bibles (Score:2)
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iPhone chargers, by far outpace iPhones (Score:2)
Product category compared to specific models (Score:5, Insightful)
You can't just arbitrarily take the sum of all the models that a company has produced in a category and compare it to specific models in other fields. Try comparing the iPhone to 3M's all types of post-it notes, who has sold more units? If you want Apple to win that comparison by going "by value" you are worse off, since most car manufacturers trump you, even if you just go by "model" as this BS topic does and not the total of cars that a manufacturer has made. Oh, and, by the way, and "Corolla" is just a model line when we say "brand" we usually refer to "Toyota".
If you want to get more serious, you can find products that sell more both in units and value. E.g. Coca Cola sells in a week, about as many bottles of Coke as Apple iPhones have been sold in history and it is just a matter of how many years back you have to go with Coke bottles to reach a greater overall value in Coke than iPhones...
And it gets even worse than that. Even among phones, the iPhone is not that remarkable in *numbers*. The lowly Nokia 1110 sold 250 million units. This is far above any single iPhone model. In fact, some of its directy predecessors each sold more units than all or most iPhone models (e.g. the 1100 also about 250 million, the 3210 over 150 million, the 3310 130 million etc). Similar to the iPhones Nokia made phones that were very similar in looks and software and differed only in the model number, so if you can sum up all iPhones you can sum up a line of Nokia phones and come up with more than a billion.
Why not just stay at the fact that the introduction of the iPhone was a paradigm shift that shaped the entire smartphone market and it continues to be one of the most popular platforms to this day? Why do you have to make up such BS headlines?
There is a good reason for this (Score:2)
Books don't break nearly as often, and VW beetles could be repaired.
easy to do (Score:2)
If you stop supporting you're products after a while. When they come out with a new phone the old ones start to develop slow downs and other crap.
So just what is counted? (Score:2)
A friend liked to go to integrated circuit design events so he could point out that he developed one of the most common chips of all time.
It was the AM/FM radio chip used in billions of devices. Does anyone know how many SATA connectors Foxconn has made?
Genericproduct (Score:2)
Peculiar logic (Score:2)
This article -- while an interesting opinion piece -- is clearly missing some key pieces in the argument it tries to make, which is largely why so many people are attempting to offer their own contrasting figures both here on /. and on the original article thread. So here's one more example, to add to the collection: The Bible is the best selling book in the world, at somewhere over 5 billion copies... but that's a sales figure which spans back over two centuries. So where's the time factor, in this analy
Not for Everyone. (Score:5, Insightful)
Call me a Luddite, and I respond that I've been using computers for hours every day since 1979.
I know hardware, I know code.
I will never own a smartphone.
Why, you ask? (or most probably don't)
I made an observation a few years ago that up until the early 90s, I would use computers to get away from people for a few hours. Now when I want to get away from people, I stop using them for a few hours.
The social media hivemind empowered by the smartphone is not for everybody.
Every evening I sit on my porch with my 16-year-old cat and watch people out walking their dogs or taking an evening stroll. It's astonishing how many people do so with their nose attached to a smartphone. Furthermore, it's really really sad to see.
Smartphones have made it too easy to be super-stimulated. I know enough about computers and enough about addiction to know when to abstain from certain behavior.
I know their utility, and having that much computing power in your pocket is certainly a dream I've held since I was very young, but how it's been promoted and indoctrinated and utilized by society at large is quite disconcerting from a certain point-of-view.
Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and smartphones... it's like the worst version of advanced inter-connectivity from classic science-fiction has come to pass. /rant off
Re: Apple(s) and oranges (Score:2)
The iPhone was really just a copy of the Palm Pilot phone...
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And, where is Palm today?
The same place where Apple will be in 10-20 years?
After all, who knows? ... and that barely.
IBM used to be everywhere, now it's just around.
Microsoft used to be ubiquitous in many areas, now it's only so in one
Before there was Twitter and Facebook, there was MySpace and before that, GeoCities?
Before cars were made, people bought horse carriages. Can you name one horse carriage builder now?
Things change and even the greatest empires eventually fall. No country on this earth is now even remotely like it was 5
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No country on this earth is now even remotely like it was 50 years ago.
There's plenty of shitholes that were shitholes back in the day. Even Somalis don't want to live in Somalia. Venezuela is, if anything, worse off than it was 50 years ago thanks to food riots, etc. And North Korea ... well, it's still North Korea.
Re:Made in the USA (Score:4, Informative)
And I can't wait for the Trumpers to jump on the fact none were built in Merica!
I often wonder if the people who post stuff like this are the same people who complain about H-1Bs. I suspect so.
If someone is unemployed, and would like products consumed in America to be built in America, so that he might have a better chance to get a job, well, I disagree but I have to respect where he's coming from. Mocking people like that is why we have Trump.
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The bulk of the iPhones are made by different vendors such as Samsung, LG, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments.
That statement is false and factually incorrect on its value. The iPhone is made by several manufacturing companies that Apple has contracted like the company formerly known as Foxconn; however, none of them are the companies you've listed. Those companies do make components of cell phones which are probably in many other phones.
If you are counting all the different iPhones over the years, then you need to count all the android devices; Google claims there 1.4 billion _active_ android devices.
Android being an OS and not a company nor a model that's not comparing apples to apples. Now if you want to match iPhone vs the Samsung Galaxy line of phones, that's fair. Your com
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The Bible estimates that over 5 Billion pints of Guinness have been sold.
Last St. Paddy's day.