Apple Now Has 1.5 Billion Active Devices Worldwide

[MacRumors]

In today's earnings release where Apple reported record numbers due to the strength of iPhone sales, wearables, and services, Apple said that it now has 1.5 billion active devices.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the milestone was hit over the holiday period, and serves as a "powerful testament to the satisfaction, engagement and loyalty of our customers -- and a great driver of our growth across the board."

Apple's active installed base include iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch models in use around the world.

The active install base has grown from 1.4 billion, a number that Apple reported in January 2019.

Article Link: Apple Now Has 1.5 Billion Active Devices Worldwide

 

[now i see it]

and maybe 25M users

 

[Baymowe335]

Absolutely crushing. The user base cannot be underestimated.

 

[profets]

and maybe 25M users

Really? So 60 devices per user?

 

[ruslansv]

Battery life continues to be terrible - same symptoms as before the upgrade - healthd on the watch is using a ton of CPU seemingly at random - clearly not fixed

 

[jayducharme]

That's mind blowing, given that they're reporting ACTIVE devices. That averages out to about 1 in 6 people worldwide using an Apple product. (Naturally, that assumes one device per person whereas many people own more than one Apple device.)

 

[e1me5]

If you think about it, Apple is the manufacturer with the most devices in a household.

 

[ColBatGuano]

I think it would be 1.4 billion devices, if not for our household...

 

[JosephAW]

And that's not counting all the devices not signed in with an Apple ID and old retired devices like my 4S.

 

[Abazigal]

and maybe 25M users

They have more than 900 million active iphone users (I am guessing 950 million myself), so that seems like a pretty good gauge of the number of users.

 

[MartyvH]

My active Apple devices: 2 iPhones because I'm in transition back to 1 iPhone. I will likely buy one of the iPad range late this year and I may buy a MacBook (not a Windows laptop, I prefer my Windows desktop) sometime in the future. That's all. Sorry, Tim. 😁

 

[russell_314]

Battery life continues to be terrible - same symptoms as before the upgrade - healthd on the watch is using a ton of CPU seemingly at random - clearly not fixed

I'm guessing you meant to post this in another thread?
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I would love to see the breakdown by type of device. I bet iPhone is the majority.

 

[scrapesleon]

Well that about sums it up

 

[Seanm87]

Not surprising. The iPhone is like a gateway drug to all the other products apple make. And I'm completely guilty of it considering I own about 6 different apple products.

 

[recoil80]

I have 5 active devices, not counting the many iPads I have at office to test my apps.

 

[foodandart]

Really? So 60 devices per user?

That seems about right, though it is a bit low - more like a beginners number.. Let me count the devices in my home..

Yeah, between my Macs and husband's Androids and of course the dual-boot hackintosh/gaming PC.. Eeesh. We got lotsa electronics.

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

Shoot, I'm at... 8, +2 for my girlfriend, +4 for my parents.

So 14 directly attributable to me.

 

[lec0rsaire]

For those of us born in the 80s who lived through the 90s, it is truly extraordinary how successful Apple has become. Apple was a niche company in the 90s. Macintoshes were computers that only wealthy upper middle class people, artists and musicians used. Only some of my well off school friends on the Upper East Side had them.

The reason is that they were f’n expensive! Typically you wouldn’t be able to buy one for less than $2000. With inflation that’s about $3300-4000 today. A lot of money for something that most people didn’t find necessary yet.

Schools typically had a bunch of Apple IIe and maybe just a couple of Performas and lower end desktop Macs on the era that ran OS 7, 8 and 9. Apple has always tried to get kids used to Macs early.

It was only towards the end of the decade around 1998-1999 that the America Online and dial-up Internet was really taking off. The now iconic iMac arrived just in time.

But what really made Apple the household name it is today was the iPod. Even PC people who would never think of buying a Mac had to have an iPod. It really was the gateway drug. It certainly was for me even though it still took me over a decade to finally make the switch. A couple of iPads, the iPhone 3G, the iPad 2 and before I knew it I was trapped!

 

[Shanghaichica]

and maybe 25M users

The population of the U.K. is around 70 million and about 50% of the U.K. use iPhones....
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For those of us born in the 80s who lived through the 90s, it is truly extraordinary how successful Apple has become. Apple was a niche company in the 90s. Macintoshes were computers that only wealthy upper middle class people, artists and musicians used. Only some of my well off school friends on the Upper East Side had them.

The reason is that they were f’n expensive! Typically you wouldn’t be able to buy one for less than $2000. With inflation that’s about $3300-4000 today. A lot of money for something that most people didn’t find necessary yet.

Schools typically had a bunch of Apple IIe and maybe just a couple of Performas and lower end desktop Macs on the era that ran OS 7, 8 and 9. Apple has always tried to get kids used to Macs early.

It was only towards the end of the decade around 1998-1999 that the America Online and dial-up Internet was really taking off. The now iconic iMac arrived just in time.

But what really made Apple the household name it is today was the iPod. Even PC people who would never think of buying a Mac had to have an iPod. It really was the gateway drug. It certainly was for me even though it still took me over a decade to finally make the switch. A couple of iPads, the iPhone 3G, the iPad 2 and before I knew it I was trapped!

The iPod was certainly the gateway for me. Had a few then the iPhone 3G and well now I have an iPhone, Mac, Apple TV’s, Apple Watch, iPads, AirPods, HomePods.

It all started with an iPod mini.