(Aditya Shaw, Intern Journalist): Apple’s iPhone is the most valuable company in the world making premium phones and this is proving to be true. Yes, more than one billion people worldwide have iPhones, that is, every seventh person has an iPhone. Although the number of iPhone users is more in the US and European countries, in developed countries like Asia as well as developing countries like India, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of iPhone users during the last 2 years.
According to a tech analyst named Neil Cybart, the number of iPhone users across the world has crossed the one billion or 100 crore mark even before the launch of smartphones from the iPhone 12 series last month. This gives an idea of the popularity of the iPhone that despite being expensive, users have a craze for this phone, which increases over time as well as increasing the price of the iPhone.
Apple stopped telling 2 years ago how much its iPhone sales increased or decreased or what the company set in terms of sales. But in the past, Neil Cybart, who knows the Apple company closely, told that the company has so far sold more than one billion iPhones. However, it is important to mention here that there are companies like Samsung and Xiaomi, who have set records in terms of sales of smartphones.
It is notable that Apple launched the first iPhone in the year 2008 and sold around 11 million phones in the first year. After that, the figure increased and by the year 2009 28 million, 60 million by 2010, 116 million by 2011, 206 million by 2012, 329 million by 2013, 442 million by 2014, 569 million by 2015, 710 million by 2016, by 2017 814 million, 888 million by 2018, 948 million by 2019, and then in September of the year 2020, the company achieved a record sales of more than 1000 million units of iPhone.