“Last July, sales of iOS devices caught up with sales of Windows devices, making it a tight race as to who would ship the most units as 2015 wrapped up,” Chance Miller reports for 9to5Mac. “Now, Asymco has shared a chart depicting the extraordinary growth of iPhone shipments and showing that in 2015, iPhone shipments overtook Windows shipments as a whole.”
“Apple shipped just over 300 [million] Macs, iPhones, and iPads in 2015, continuing its consistent yearly growth,” Miller reports. “There were 275 million Windows devices shipped in 2015, according to Asymco, down from 300 million in 2014.”
Miller reports, “Around 10 million Macs were shipped, meaning Apple shipped 290 million iOS devices.”
iOS overtook Windows last year, as expected. pic.twitter.com/5LgnZsxWaL
— Horace Dediu (@asymco) January 12, 2016
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MacDailyNews Take: Steve Jobs’ ultimate goal is now coming to fruition.
As we have always said, even as many short-sightedly waved (and continue to wave) the white flag, the war is not over. And, yes, we shall prevail… No company is invincible. Not even Microsoft. — MacDailyNews, January 10, 2005
Apple’s “iPhone” isn’t really a phone at all. It’s really a small touchscreen Mac OS X computer, a Mac nano tablet, if you will… the main thing about the “iPhone” is that it’s really a pocket Mac. — SteveJack, MacDailyNews, January 9, 2007
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