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“Apple sold 16.24 million iPhones in the December quarter. That sure is a lot of iPhones, and while dwarfed by the 650 million bottles of Heinz Ketchup sold around the world each year means Apple sells more iPhones each year than there are cars sold worldwide,” Evans reports. “7.33 million iPads were sold in the last quarter. Apple has sold 14.79 million iPads since the product went on sale. That’s rather more than the three million some ‘analysts’ had predicted the company would shift in the year. It means. Apple has sold 55,393 iPads each day since the industry-defining tablet went on sale in the US on April 3, 2010. While lower than the 300,000 sold on the first day the iPad went on sale in the US, that’s still more iPads than the number of people you can fit inside the Yankee Stadium. Every. Single. Day.”
Evans reports, “Apple sells 2.47 iPods every second… Apple sells 31.52 Macs every minute of each day. 45,384.6 Macs are sold each day… Apple’s Mac sales have grown at a faster rate than industry averages not just for the last few quarters, but for the last 19 consecutive quarters. In other words, Mac sales have been ascending at faster than industry growth for almost five years.”
Tons more shocking stats and facts here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dow C.” for the heads up.]
Some of those “shocking” facts are ridiculous. How much does a car cost? How much does an iPhone cost? I think that’s pretty obvious that iPhone sales would far outnumber car sales. How many chocolate bars were sold compared to iPhones? Sheesh.
If those Window PC box makers would just get those PC to crash and burn every 3 or 4 months instead of every 6 months to a year, they could pick up their numbers. Apple Mac sales are lower because they last years!
Have you ever wondered why these Window PC believers keep buying those turds so often and think it is normal?
Don’t forget that every six seconds a newborn baby is named Steve.
What’s shocking is the huge amount of headroom left for Apple to grow into all these product categories. And there is no-one in a position to stop them. Considering those points, $1,000/share doesn’t seem at all crazy.
31.52 Macs per minutes… Must be an amazing production line to watch. Especially the machining center for AL macbooks.
I wonder just how many people like me are sitting and just waiting for the iPad 2? Can’t believe RIMM is planning to leave calendar and email off their for now vapor iPad competitor…arm-twisting the consumer with a very late and untested product…forcing them to already own or buy a Blackberry and have to sync the two devices…what is in those CEO’s brains the last several years??…a solid competitor gone bad.
Texting, emailing, and Inboxing everyone today who scoffed at my prediction of at least 10 million sold in 2010 when the iPad was first released.
One of my friends even said that Apple would be lucky to sell a million in 2010. Why? Because it doesn’t have any ports!!!
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Didn’t MS say that the Kinect would outsell the iPad this holiday season? Does anyone have the Kinect numbers?
Due to the iPad and iPhone, the last ramparts (enterprise) of the Dark Empire are finally starting to fall. We’ll know we’re in a new, brighter computing age when Apple dominates office client machines as much as the home. It’s coming and the so-called analysts STILL don’t see it! Another buying opportunity…
Go Apple!!
@peterJ,
Next time you’re stuck in traffic, imagine all those cars being iPhones.
jdoc,
658 sold.
(I just pulled that number out of my ass)
(In training to be an analyst)
@istep…… Me too
@Big….. Good luck
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Big Als MBP,
The trick is you have to make it sound almost believable when you pluck numbers from your posterior. And, you need to sound like you mean it…
1,568,200 units sold was the actual number of Kinect boxes sold, roughly 1/10 the number of iPhones that Apple sold in the same quarter
…see… much better
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@ Peter
Let’s see one brand of candy bar and see how that stacks up, lol
Good for Apple and no unions, no bailouts.
Heck, AAPL has made 6.022 x 10^23, no never mind…
Here’s another fact… if there were no Steve Jobs, there would be no iPhone or iPad, etc. Imagine how many iOS devices were sold on Boxing Day!
@peterJ
“How much does a car cost? How much does an iPhone cost? I think that’s pretty obvious that iPhone sales would far outnumber car sales.”
Dude- it was meant to be a light hearted presentation of the numbers.
Turn off your left brain occasionally and relax.
Let’s say the Windows collective has about 90% market share and Mac has 10%, just to keep the numbers simple. Being precise is not that important, to make the point. Apple sold about 4 million Macs in the quarter, so that’s a rate of 16 million per year. If that’s 10%, 160 million total PCs are sold per year.
Therefore, it’s like Apple has a huge untapped resource of 144 million computer-savvy customers every year to go after (those “first time” Mac buyers), while the Windows collective has exhausted their resource of “new” customers; they are mostly re-selling to existing Windows users (there are not that many novice computer users make a first purchase). In comparison, Apple just needs a small percentage of current Windows users to become Mac users each year while continuing to re-sell to existing Mac users, and the Mac business keeps setting new sales records.
In the “mature” PC market, this is why Apple is the only growth opportunity.
In the friendly sibling competition between iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad I predict that within a year iPad will be the top seller.
Some other web sites are showing how the Anal-ists went with their predictions. Nine of the ten top spots went to the Bloggers and the pros fucked it up big time. It’s always the same story. These overpaid professional tools get it frigging wrong. WHY are they still employed.
@Jersey_Trader
Apple Mac sales are lower because they last years!
So true! I writing this on my 5.5+ year old PowerBook G4. It’s no longer my primary Mac, but it’s still going strong after years of constantly running.