Apple’s iPhone sales have reached one trillion dollars…
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Determining the average Apple device lifespan
Knowing active devices and cumulative devices sold allows one to determine the average device lifespan…
Apple’s most important number
This is only the second time this number was revealed…
Apple’s custom silicon sets their products apart
Apple’s in-house chip design team currently develops its A-series application processors, the bionic neural engine…
When Apple Watch surpassed iPod
The last time Apple reported iPod unit and revenues was for the third quarter of 2014…
Apple sees its mobile devices as platform for artificial intelligence
Apple Inc sees its mobile devices as a major platform for artificial intelligence…
Apple ships more microprocessors than Intel
The Apple A11 Bionic processor has 4.3 billion transistors and in some benchmarks exceeds the performance of current laptop PCs…
Why Apple’s flagship OLED iPhone will be so expensive
Apple’s OLED iPhone will cost well over $1,000…
How much will the new iPhone cost?
iPhone’s average selling price (which combines the revenues and the volumes of all units sold and is reported every quarter)…
The changes ushered by Apple’s iPhone have been as momentous as those of electricity, telegraph, radio or TV
The iPhone is the best selling product ever, making Apple perhaps the best business ever…
Apple isn’t working on a car, they’re working on something much bigger
The automotive market is valued at anywhere from $5 trillion to $15 trillion…
Asymco predicts Apple’s second quarter
The last quarter of 2016 was Apple’s biggest ever…
The ethos of Apple is rigid so why is perception about the company so fickle?
Life expectancy for humans has been rising but for companies it has been declining…
Apple shipped 1,591,092,250 computers in its first 40 years, more than any other computer company
In Apple’s first 40 years it shipped 1,591,092,250 computers…
Apple blew past Microsoft in personal computer shipments in 2015
Last July, sales of iOS devices caught up with sales of Windows devices…
Apple looks poised to sell 21 million Apple Watch units generating $8.4 billion in first year
Cupertino is on track to sell 21 million watches and rake in about $8.4 billion in revenue…
Apple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app released for Android on Google Play
Apple has made no secret of wanting to convert as many Android users as possible over to the iOS platform…
Android fanboy actually uses an iPhone for 2 months, dumps Android phone
I will be making the switch to the iPhone…
Apple iPhone sees highest switching rate from Android ever recorded
Apple has seen the highest switching rate from Android that they ever recorded…
Asymco: Apple Watch is a phenomenon for mass consumption, a watershed event
Nothing ever worn on a wrist, or anywhere else for that matter, has done any of these things before…
Asymco: Peak cable
Disruption theory suggests that once a product over-serves…
Apple’s apps economy ‘as big as Hollywood’
Apple’s app developers earned as much collectively as Hollywood did…
Horace Dediu: Sapphire will become a signature feature across many Apple products
The scope of the plant they are building with GT implies that they will have massive volume…
WWDC 2014: The most significant event Apple ever staged
WWDC had a great deal of meat…
Apple TV sales topped $1 bilion in 2013, becoming Apple’s fastest growing hardware
Sales of the Apple TV have increased by 80 percent year over year…
Apple’s iTunes empire alone would be ranked number 130 in Fortune 500
Apple’s iTunes total reported revenues increased to a new record…
Apple’s iTunes division is now nearly half the size of Google’s core business
iTunes is nearly half of Google’s core business and growing slightly faster…
Apple’s growth scorecard
Apple revenues grew at the rate of about…
Asymco: Apple Q114 estimate
As Philip Elmer-DeWitt is still interested in my estimates…
How and why Apple is beating Microsoft to a pulp
Microsoft, as we know it, is doomed…
How many years does Apple have?
The market suggests that Apple has…
The Quantum Leap in retail: In fiscal 2013 there were 395 million visits to Apple Retail Stores
Except for seasonal peaks, the visitors per store per quarter has been…
Asymco: The value of zero-priced software
Apple’s latest product launch…
Morgan Stanley, UBS estimates concur: Apple’s iPhone 5C to be priced at $399
Apple rumored upcoming iPhone announcement with updated models and estimates…
Android usage in the U.S. declines for the first time
iPhone usage over the last six months is up by 11 million users vs. 6.6 million for Android…
The Anti-Apple
Building a successful business is hard…
The latest performance figures for Apple Retail Stores
When looking at the latest performance figures for Apple’s Retail Stores…
Apple’s biggest acquisition
Apple has made what amounts to its biggest acquisition ever…
Do you remember RAM upgrades?
The top-selling MacBook Air dominates the thin and light notebook market…
Asymco: U.S. smartphone market not saturated, rate of adoption not slowing in any perceptible way
Not only is there no saturation, but there is no slowing of adoption…
Apple is valued at $440 for each of its users
This week Apple announced that iTunes has 575 million accounts…
Asymco’s Horace Dediu: Tim Cook’s answer to my first question
It would take a great deal more sourcing effort and risk while dealing with…