“With the release of its quarterly earnings earlier today, Apple revealed that it had sold 37.04M iPhones in fiscal Q1 of 2012,” Matthew Panzarino reports for TNW. “Those numbers are massive, far bigger than any other manufacturer and beyond industry estimates.”
“The 37.04M iPhone figure divided out over the period of 98 days in the quarter gives us… 377.9K sold every day,” Panzarino reports. “[That’s] higher than the world’s average birth rate which clocks in at 371K per day.”
“Apple is now making iPhones at a rate that exceeds the amount of babies that humans produce on earth every day,” Panzarino reports. “It’s a pretty staggering statistic, especially when you consider that Apple is selling every one of those devices it can make.”
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This is great. At this rate, Apple may some day be able to get an iPhone in the hand of every living person on the planet! I was starting to thing that Apple would never catch up with the demand.
Yeah, the doctor will say, “Congratulations! It’s a boy! Here’s his standard issue iPhone with apple ID.”
I guess if we extrapolate, eventually everyone on the planet will have an iPhone. Where will the stock price be then?
That’s a lot of fornication.
Once again proving P.T. Barnum’s dictum. “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
True. 37 million iPhones sold represent just a tiny fraction of the global population. That leaves a whole lot of suckers that haven’t yet bought one.
Makes you feel sad for them, doesn’t it?
Actually, there are about 258 born every minute.
With a 1bit depth brain 8-(
Well yea. You were born.
Suckers!?….. For purchasing a product that works that is backed by the best customer satisfaction rating in the industry? Go Suck on Ballmers left nut! You are a plaque on this earth. You TRUELY are one ingnorant parasite. The world will be a better place when you cease to exist.
That is not a sustainable rate over the long term. Not being a naysayer, but saying the party will eventually end and that is the big question.
Nothing is sustainable, not even life on earth. Big DUH. I can handle it if it’s only for another 50-100 years and I retire solely from Apple stock asset benefits alone.
I am TRUELY happy for you sir. I have the upmost respect for you Peter Blood. Unlike other left nuts on this site. The envy is so very apparent.
LOL, weren’t you cautioning us just a few weeks ago? Why would anyone listen to you after you were so wrong? Have you ever heard of the boy crying wolf? Have you ever been called, Mr. Obvious?
Siri for baby talk may already be under development.
iPhones made > Babies born …
glad the worlds priorities are in order
If someone offered me a baby or an iPhone, I’d pick the iPhone, every time.
A baby makes a data+voice+messaging plan look reasonably priced.
Well.. That’s not sustainable (:
Babies usually need a lot of debugging. Some never quite emerge from beta.
I was just going to say, babies are inherently more difficult and complex to build. They are constructed at the molecular level and require an exhaustive number of elements assembled in a very particular manor.
No surprise that babies take longer to build. It would appear there will be more iPhones than people in short order, and how will we feed them all. That’s the next question.
Really, “babies are inherently more difficult and complex to build”. I hardly think so. Any 2 people of the opposite sex can get together and create a baby, regardless of intelligence level. Let’s see those same 2 people build and iPhone, or for that matter, an Droid.
Danilko1 must have been asleep through most of his Biology and Sex Ed classes. That, or he went to Catholic school.
I’ll bet there is a lot more practice baby making than there is practice iPhone assembly.
The correlations don’t end there:
– Wireless network providers’ ability to support iPhone user demands is showing increased strains — not unlike Earth’s signs of limited ability to support unlimited human population growth.
– Apple’s limits to growth will not be manifested by competition, but by natural resource limitation driving down demand for luxury products by the mass market. Just give it another 2-3 human generations for the USA. You’d think Wall Street would be more cognizant of the fact that their “free” market ignores about 6 billion people of the planet — and will see a shrinking percentage of market share as the increasing percentage of humanity, coping with real resource constraints, migrates to used markets, barter markets, black markets, grey markets, or other means to survive without luxury goods like Apple products. Exponential popluation growth enabled by the reckless use of accumulated hydrocarbons will only be followed by exponential human conflict when the cheap energy is gone.