Apple Now Has Over 1 Billion Active Devices Worldwide

[Slix]

And that doesn't even include the 10+ iPods that I use regularly that aren't connected to the internet. XD

 

[bradl]

I wonder how Apple accounted for these devices, because if all inclusive, this would also include any active Hackintoshes that have been built and still in use. If that is the case, then not only purely Apple products are being counted.

I know for a fact that while I started back at Apple with my iPhone 3G, then went to a 4s, I started back with a Hackintosh to get my feet wet with OSX before going completely MBA. And judging how active a place like tonymacx86 is, there are definitely more hackintoshes out there than my old box.

BL.

 

[Glideslope]

Wait, so you think Apple's only market is China? Last I checked they are already diversified into other markets.

Ugh. Retention of previous statements would be beneficial.

 

[kdarling]

Appletopia is the third most populated nation on the planet, behind only China and India. There are three times as many Apple devices as Americans. Oy.

Many people here have noted that they own and use more than one of the listed Apple devices. For instance, I personally use three all the time.

So it depends on the average number of devices per user, divided into a billion, as to what the actual population of users would be.

This is a very useful stat to pull out right after the at best luke-warm quarterly results. The timing of its release is almost certainly intended to serve as a distraction for the media.

The timing would also have to do with the holidays.

Millions of people bought updated devices and replaced their old ones.

Thus, because Apple is counting any service access over the past 90 days, Apple could count both the old and the new replacement devices, even though many of the old ones are no longer being used.

Still, even if that added up to a likely thirty million old iPhones that accessed services within the last three months, but are now dormant in drawers, it's close enough to a billion.