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Apple celebrates sale of one billion iPhones
MacDailyNews ^ | July 27, 2016

Posted on 07/27/2016 8:59:00 PM PDT by Swordmaker

At an employee meeting in Cupertino today, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company had recently sold the billionth iPhone.

“iPhone has become one of the most important, world-changing and successful products in history. It’s become more than a constant companion. iPhone is truly an essential part of our daily life and enables much of what we do throughout the day,” said Cook. “Last week we passed another major milestone when we sold the billionth iPhone. We never set out to make the most, but we’ve always set out to make the best products that make a difference. Thank you to everyone at Apple for helping change the world every day.”

Source: Apple Inc.

MacDailyNews Take: Congrats, Apple!

Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. … Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these. — Steve Jobs



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: 1billionsold; applepinglist; iphone
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1 posted on 07/27/2016 8:59:01 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

I won’t own anything but an iPhone.


2 posted on 07/27/2016 9:00:46 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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3 posted on 07/27/2016 9:02:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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“More than a constant companion”

Are people finally sleeping with their smart phones?. Bowing to the clearly superior intelligence? Wouldn’t shock me.

How many workers making two bucks a day at Foxconn killed themselves in despair, in that commie hellhole where the beloved product was disgorged?

The answer is: “Who cares?”

Not me, certainly. But it does make you think ...


4 posted on 07/27/2016 9:16:17 PM PDT by Dirt for sale (QS)
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Apple is about to pass 1 billion iPhones milestone (U: Apple confirms 1B sold)
Jordan Kahn

Cupertino, California July 27, 2016 At an employee meeting in Cupertino this morning, CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple recently sold the billionth iPhone.

“iPhone has become one of the most important, world-changing and successful products in history. It’s become more than a constant companion. iPhone is truly an essential part of our daily life and enables much of what we do throughout the day,” said Cook. “Last week we passed another major milestone when we sold the billionth iPhone. We never set out to make the most, but we’ve always set out to make the best products that make a difference. Thank you to everyone at Apple for helping change the world every day.”

With iPhone sales reported for Apple’s fiscal Q3 yesterday, the company is now at around 988.15 million iPhones sold, meaning it’s about to pass the 1 billion units sold milestone and will likely do so any day now.

Considering Apple is selling around 40 million iPhones per quarter— it announced 40.4 million for Q3 yesterday and reported 48 million units shipped in Q4 last year—and we’re now a month into its fiscal Q4, there’s a good chance Apple is just about to hit the 1 billion mark if it hasn’t already.

Apple’s iPhone sales in its Q3 2016 earnings reported yesterday were down 15% compared to the 47.5 million units it sold in the same quarter last year. It also saw its iPhone revenue fall -23% during the quarter year over year.

During a call with investors, Tim Cook highlighted a ‘very successful’ launch of the iPhone SE, noting its popularity in both developed and emerging markets and among first-time iPhone buyers. Cook also pointed to India as a promising market, noting iPhone sales in the country were up 50 percent YoY, and said the company had strong sales in Japan, Turkey, and Russia during the third quarter. In addition, he once again said the company has seen a record number of Android switchers in recent months. 

The decline for iPhone sales and revenue during Q3 comes ahead of Apple’s expected introduction of its next-generation iPhone this fall. The device, which would be called iPhone 7 if following Apple’s current naming scheme, is rumored to include an upgraded camera system, new storage tiers, the removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack, and more, in a package that largely resembles the current iPhone 6’s physical design. 

Apple first passed the 1 billion iOS devices sold milestone back in January of 2015 and back in January of 2016 announced that it had 1 billion total active devices, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod touch, Apple TV, and Apple Watch. The company’s products other than iPhone made up a relatively small percentage of the total 1 billion devices in use that Apple reported in January, as Apple was already at around 900 million iPhones sold at that point.

5 posted on 07/27/2016 9:22:03 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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To: Swordmaker
Thanks bro. I will get the IPhone 7 next year. 😀
6 posted on 07/27/2016 9:24:05 PM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure.)
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To: Dirt for sale
How many workers making two bucks a day at Foxconn killed themselves in despair, in that commie hellhole where the beloved product was disgorged?

Very few. You fall for propaganda that means NOTHING. The suicide rate at all of FoxConn at the height of the breathless claims of suicide at FoxConn in 2010 and 2011 was less than 1 per 100,000 workers per year, yet you are decrying that "horrendous" rate, when the suicide rate among American young people in the SAME AGE GROUPS attending Ivy League Universities was 11 per 100,000 per year!

During the years of 2010-2011, during an 18 month period, there were just 18 suicides among all of FoxConn's many plants, where between 750,000 (early 2010) to 1,000,000 (mid 2011) people between the ages of 18 and 32 worked. FoxConn CEO Terry Gou was making it a personal practice to compensate the families of the workers who killed themselves with a cash payment of between 20 to 25 times the workers' annual salary.

Outside, independent investigators found that the suicides at FoxConn had NOTHING to do with working conditions but were instead the normal psychological conditions one would find in the usual mix of people. Some of the suicides were due to psychiatric problems, three left notes that stated they killed themselves for the financial reward for the families, noting they were worth more to their families dead than alive, and several others mentioned the award to co-workers before they died. When Gou was apprised of these motives, he ceased making these large payments in favor of the government workers' compensation payments and the suicides essentially stopped!

The worst spate of suicides occurred at a plant assembling Microsoft X-boxes, Nokia cellular phones, Sony Playstations, and HP Computers. . . not a single suicide occurred at a plant assembling any Apple products.

After those 2010-2011 suicides, the suicide rate at FoxConn fell to near ZERO and in 2013, there were, in fact ZERO suicides at all 27 FoxConn plants which employed a total of over 1,500,000 workers, resulting in a ZERO SUICIDE RATE.

Workers on Apple's assembly lines are paid between 2.4 to 3.5 times the regular factory wages. It is for this reason that workers queue by the thousand to apply for work on those lines when openings become available. Apple also specifies minimum working conditions and then place Apple paid monitors to assure those conditions and wages are met. Apple has actually pulled multi-billion dollar contracts from suppliers who failed to meet those conditions!

YOU do not know what you are talking about.

These "suicide claims" and "poor working conditions" at slave labor have been shot down multiple times. They come from a NEW YORK based organization called China Labor Watch that has been caught falsifying evidence and using faked videos, and mis-translating worker interviews from Chinese to English to misconstrue what the worker actually said. They have NO presence at all in China. Their purpose is to raise funds of which less than 2% is ever expended on programs for Chinese workers.

7 posted on 07/27/2016 9:44:14 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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To: Dirt for sale
How many workers making two bucks a day at Foxconn. . .

By-the-way, the workers at FoxConn, even on non-Apple assembly lines, earn around $2.34 an hour! Not two bucks a day. . . And those rates were back in 2013. They've had raises since then. The standard Chinese minimum wage for factory work was around $1.14 an hour then. . . Which was better than the 68¢ per hour minimum wage for clerks and office work!

However to put those prices in perspective, a two bedroom apartment in the city rented for around $70 per month. One bedroom for $60. Although there was no time-and-a-half overtime, most workers took advantage of liberal overtime policies allowing 60 hours of optional overtime per month.

8 posted on 07/27/2016 9:57:52 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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You’ve got me convinced. Now, when I think of Apple products, I’ll think of willy wonka and his dwarves joyously making chocolates at a comfortable living wage.

I am against everything Apple stands for so of course I will mock it and knock it. I am against buying Chinese crap.
Biting the apple started this mess.
If the workers were the happiest in the world I would continue resenting our manufacturing being gifted to a communist country. I vote with dollars and that’s all.


9 posted on 07/27/2016 9:58:11 PM PDT by Dirt for sale (QS)
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To: Swordmaker

Useless Cupertino foam party tools.


10 posted on 07/27/2016 10:04:01 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: Swordmaker

Thank you for the reply about possible suicides in Chinese sweat shops. Steve Jobs was clearly trying to clean up the Apple factories before he passed away. The main offender is Payless Shoes and their sweatshops need cleaning up. I have purchased three used iPhones from Ebay and my present 4 syncs smoothly with my Mac mini. My brother has a poor sense of direction and uses Siri directions even when trying to find the freeway near Disneyland.


11 posted on 07/27/2016 10:37:52 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: Dirt for sale
am against everything Apple stands for so of course I will mock it and knock it. I am against buying Chinese crap.
Biting the apple started this mess.
If the workers were the happiest in the world I would continue resenting our manufacturing being gifted to a communist country. I vote with dollars and that’s all.

Apple was the last major computer maker to move and resisted until competition forced it on them. They are also the first to move back. Apple makes the Mac Pro in Austin, Texas, and assembles the iMacs in Elk Grove, California. Apple has never off-shored its tech support.

12 posted on 07/27/2016 10:42:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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However, Foxconn and Pegatron are starting to integrate a LOT more robotics in the production of the iPhone. The 2016 model iPhone coming in September may have a lot of its final assembly done by robots.
13 posted on 07/27/2016 11:45:36 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Tau Food
I won’t own anything but an iPhone.

Gee, never had one, never will. Wife did get some Samsung thing, much to my confusion why such a thing was necessary. Verizon convinced her to get the goofy thing over a new "normal" phone.

14 posted on 07/27/2016 11:46:01 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Swordmaker

Several of my former co workers live in Elk Grove. I always thought it was too long of a commute to Vacaville. One lived a few minutes from Seafood City on Mack Road.


15 posted on 07/28/2016 1:30:14 AM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure.)
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To: Tau Food
I won’t own anything but an iPhone.

My phone of preference is my iPhone. But I have to use a droid in my work. I hate them, they suck bigtime. Samsungs are the worst, but LG and Motorola are tolerable...

16 posted on 07/28/2016 2:10:46 AM PDT by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces!)
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To: Swordmaker

Well in a few months, we might just see whether Apple is serious about this.

Trump will be for bringing back manufacturing to America.

What will Apple do?


17 posted on 07/28/2016 2:40:14 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Swordmaker
Beats announcing that Apple just got nuked by Samsung in sales...

Samsung sales have risen 13% in the past year and overtake Apple by 3%....The Apple-Samsung power struggle is starting to tip in Samsung’s favour as over the past year they knock Apple from a 54% share of sales to 41%. This sees the first time Samsung outsold Apple in the latter half of the year despite Apple releasing their latest flagship iPhone range.

http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/07/samsung-beats-apple-inc-in-yearly-sales-figures/

18 posted on 07/28/2016 4:45:13 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Swordmaker
This is a stupendous achievement. One BILLION iPhones. And as I recently upgraded to iPhone 6S PLUS model, my phone is probably around the 999,876,990th iPhone ever made. Just a wild guess.

Others will come here to mock and chitter-chatter, but they are simply envious of other people's achievements. If they were around during the 1870s, they'd probably be wishing for the Brooklyn Bridge to fall into the river to show the "folly" of other people trying to achieve something.

19 posted on 07/28/2016 5:58:34 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Swordmaker

Thank you for this detailed rebuttal of the anti-Apple propaganda.


20 posted on 07/28/2016 8:07:40 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
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