Apple Now Has More Than Two Billion Active Devices Worldwide

[Shasterball]

They may be owned by someone else, but that would not change the ratio of devices to people.

Perhaps. But it would make the ratio much more reasonable.

 

[deevey]

Perhaps. But it would make the ratio much more reasonable.

How would the ratio be more reasonable when it's an absolute number you're starting with ?

Currently there's Appx 137M iPhones in use in the USA
Less than 20% of PC's out there are Macs - So lets say 70-80M
iPads - Appx 60M in use
Watches Appx 50M
Airpods Appx 100M
Apple TV's - Appx 13M
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They are the rough numbers some on the high side not factoring in broken/lost devices.

It's a long way from 1.5B though.

 

[_Spinn_]

That’s a lot of devices. Very impressive numbers!

 

[Unregistered 4U]

iPads - Appx 60M in use

I think the iPad number alone is quite low, considering they sell 40 to 60 million a year.

 

[deevey]

I think the iPad number alone is quite low, considering they sell 40 to 60 million a year.

40-60M are sold globally - I was going by the US numbers only.

I cant remember where the heck I found (or how I calculated) 60M iPads active in the US. But they sold 19M iPads in the USA in 2021, factoring in 40% market growth year on-year, take into consideration Broken, Vintage and scrapped devices and the number 60M active iPads in the USA I'd guess is closer to being right than wrong.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

40-60M are sold globally - I was going by the US numbers only.

I cant remember where the heck I found (or how I calculated) 60M iPads active in the US. But they sold 19M iPads in the USA in 2021, factoring in 40% market growth year on-year, take into consideration Broken, Vintage and scrapped devices and the number 60M active iPads in the USA I'd guess is closer to being right than wrong.

Maybe here?

Canalys Newsroom - US PC shipments grew 1% to reach 135 million in 2021

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www.canalys.com

And, yes, I WAS looking at the worldwide numbers! Still though, they sold 23 million in 2020, 19 million in 2021 and that’s 40 million in two fairly recent years (where it’s more likely there’s a larger percentage still considered ‘active’). I’m guessing that there at least that many more in the US still active from the 10 years prior to that.

(And, while I was looking at this, they announced they had sold 500 million iPads by Sept. 2020! It’s really on a whole ‘nother level from the Mac)

 

[deevey]

Maybe here?

Canalys Newsroom - US PC shipments grew 1% to reach 135 million in 2021

Find the latest press releases, channels and tech analysis available

www.canalys.com

And, yes, I WAS looking at the worldwide numbers! Still though, they sold 23 million in 2020, 19 million in 2021 and that’s 40 million in two fairly recent years (where it’s more likely there’s a larger percentage still considered ‘active’). I’m guessing that there at least that many more in the US still active from the 10 years prior to that.

All the number sources say different things on the active number of devices.

I use my gear till it literally falls apart at the seams. But have plenty of friends that receive new iPads every other year on cellphone contracts. Old onea end up in a drawer "as a backup" or "I'll just buy a new one" when their cat swipes one off the table and the screen breaks.

There probably is at least 100M+ "functioning" iPads knocking about in the USA - I guess only Apple knows for sure how many are really active.

Anyhow, my point was just to show that there's no way theres 1.5B devices were active in the US 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

(And, while I was looking at this, they announced they had sold 500 million iPads by Sept. 2020! It’s really on a whole ‘nother level from the Mac)

Crazy times we live in where the fastest "computer" in my household is currently is a tablet and not by a small margin either.

 

[JosephAW]

I wonder what the oldest active activated device is?

I'm still using my iPhone 4S with 8.4.1
There are still apps you can download.

I just got an update for my scan app on iOS 8.4.1.
BUT... I can no longer sign into iCloud. I guess Apple is forcing users to ditch older working iPhone devices.
I'm still signed in but it keeps asking for the password but it no longer works. Probably dropped older TLS versions, Safari doesn't work for most sites. Too bad Apple doesn't allow third party browsers with their own TLS binaries.
I could update to 9.5.3 or whatever it is but will it still fail? I'll stay.
I'm still able to use iCloud shared photos and App Store and email and a few apps.

 

[Bodhitree]

In my household of three people we have three Macs, two iPhones, two iPads, and an Apple TV. So that’s eight devices for three humans. Which basically means Apple’s customer base might be a lot smaller than 2 billion devices suggest, although more than a billion iPhones suggests they have a lot of customers, I don’t see too many people having more than one.

 

[Bodhitree]

Apple follows the Pareto Principle and only caters to the top ~20% of any given market.

That's why even when Apple ships near quarter billion iPhones worldwide annually vs about 1 billion Android smartphones in the same time period they are earn ~80% of all smartphone hardware profits.

Canalys Newsroom - US PC shipments grew 1% to reach 135 million in 2021

Find the latest press releases, channels and tech analysis available

www.canalys.com

True for Macs as well, I guess. The roughly 11% market share Apple has in personal computers is all in premium devices, and in that price segment they probably have more like 40% share and take a disproportionate amount of profit.