[Westbrook]

I’m no Apple fanboi by a long shot, but 31 million at a few hundred bucks a pop is a LOT of money.

[Boogieman]

Yeah, but that’s not how you gauge these things. You have to look at opportunity cost. If they would have made more money just investing their R&D and marketing into a new iphone or ipod or ipad, then they are losing revenue.

[ctdonath2]

Twelve billion dollars _minimum_ revenue in just one year. One product, first model, revenue exceeding entire major industries.

[wardaddy]

Not by Apple standards

They sold 65 million Iphone 6 first quarter 2015

Samsung sold almost 90 million

Out of roughly 350 million smart phones sold worldwide in that period

Pretty incredible isn’t it

The issue I see is your phone is already now sort of your watch

And Dick Tracy was long ago

But what do I know

Apple sure pegged the very first smart phones

[ctdonath2]

In comparison: the entire worldwide movie box-office revenue for 2014 was $38B. Apple will make no less than 1/3rd that off one product (an untested new category at that) this year alone.

[HamiltonJay]

350 (cheapest option) * 31,000,000 = 10,850,000,000 in revenue assuming every sale is the cheapest option.

Given the latest build cost estimate by folks who have tore one down, cheapest options cost to assemble is under $100 that leaves you with about

250*31,000,000 = 7,750,000,000
Obviously marketing and other costs further come out of that number but it’s safe to say at 31 million sales that’s probably somewhere in the 6-7 Billion profit range for the company....

He’ll lets just round it down to 5 Billion just to play conservative. Not a bad payday.