Ondrej Holzman Perhaps a little surprisingly, Apple kept this incredible milestone to itself, but in November of last year it managed to sell its billionth iOS device. Only now did Tim Cook reveal it during a conference call after announcing record financial results.
In the last three months alone, Apple sold over 74 million iPhones, which amounts to 34 thousand iPhones sold every hour. This also contributed to November's milestone: 1 iOS devices sold.
Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that the billionth device was a 64GB iPhone 6 Plus in space gray and that Apple kept it in its headquarters as a keepsake. In fact, only iOS devices with serial numbers 999 and 999 have apparently reached customers.
Interest in the large iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was greater than any other Apple phone in history, and the high sales figures were helped by the rapid development of the new iPhones in all markets. Six iPhones are currently sold in 130 countries, also the most in history. Chief Marketing Officer Phil Schiller also boasted on Twitter that one billion iPhones, iPads and iPod touches had been sold.
1 Billion iOS devices shipped!!
- Philip Schiller (@pschiller) January 27, 2015
I don't really understand how Apple could keep the device it sold as a memento?
Either he sold it - then the customer owns it, or he didn't sell it, but then it can't be the billionth device sold.
well, as the billionth device sold, the first billionth will probably be thought of here, and the billions actually produced were kept as a keepsake
Well... but billions sold and billions produced can easily be a few thousand off (samples, distributed unsold units, test units).
A few thousand next? Do you even see the information that 34 thousand iPhones are sold per hour? Totally irrelevant..
So Schiller bought it... and then donated it to Apple for an exhibition,,,
well, you could buy it...but then it has to be in the library...I admire their database system, when they know exactly which order the exact piece will be.
It is easier to make, but more difficult to sell.
Apparently, it is a device that was activated via iTunes as a billion (that's a word :-) ).
Apple probably contacted the customer and offered him two new ones for exchange :-)
you solve the unsolvable, the respectable thing is that they made a billion of them and probably even sold them :-)
not many companies in the world will have sold a billion products