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BTW, that "one billion iOS devices" in the field, has to be a pure pipe dream of yours.

So I am a liar, or a terrible exaggerator, am I? As I once posted to another one of you trolls, it may have been you, I do not post things I am not prepared to back up. . . completely. You. . . are again hoist on your own petard.

"WWDC statshot: 800 million iOS devices sold, 75 billion apps downloaded" — June 2014
Apple has sold “well over 800 million” iOS devices since the launch of the first iPhone, according to Cook. This number includes over 100 million iPod touch units, over 200 million iPads and over 500 Million iPhones. iOS devices brought 130 million new customers to Apple during the last 12 months.

That number was based on the audited numbers as of the end of the second fiscal quarter of 2014. . . and Apple was selling approximately 50 million iOS devices between iPhones and iPads, not counting iPod Touches. . . by the time the end of 2014 rolls over, Apple will easily hit 1 billion iOS devices. In fact, it was reported that Apple would sell its 1 billionth iOS device sometime in the last quarter of 2014 (Apple 1st FY Quarter 2015).

Also, this referencing the Apple Financial Conference Call on October 21, 2014 in which Tim Cook and the CFO of Apple reported Apple's last Quarter of fiscal 2014 and the entire fiscal year, proves you are completely out in left field, again:

"Tim Cook was pleased to announce that in FY2014, Apple sold 250 million iOS devices. That means that since 2007, Apple has sold over 950 million iOS devices in total and is on track to sell it's billionth iOS device sometime in Q12015.—Source Seeking Alpha—Things Overlooked in Apple's Conference Call, by Ryan Jones, Oct. 22, 2014 8:33 AM

On Sept. 23, Tim Cook announced that iOS 7 downloads had passed 200 million within an active device base of 350 million units. Fortune notes that this means that as of Monday, Oct. 14, 250 million were running iOS 7.

Oh, WOW! You take a quotation from Tim Cook completely out of context. Tim Cook was talking about the iPhones and iPads capable of DOWNLOADING iOS 7. . . not about the entire iOS installed base. Again you don't know anything about what you are talking about. None of the iOS devices earlier than the iPhone 4 could install iOS 7. . . so he was NOT REFERRING TO THEM in his 350 million units. Good Grief, do you love to spout off about things you know nothing about, just to sound knowledgeable and think you are "smart." You aren't.

Remember that, the majority of iOS device sales is to the same loyal user-base.

Only in your warped mind. . . you don't sell one billion devices to repeat customers, adorno. . . nor do you start out in one country and sell repeat devices to those same customers in over 150 countries. Are you this much of an idiot that you believe the bilge you post?

Why are you so offensive? And why are you always so wrong????

You are a very terrible exaggerator, or somebody that just loves Apple to death.

Apple DOES NOT have anything even approaching the billion users mark. They may have sold close to a billion iOS devices, but, simple common sense says that, not all of them are still in use. People do upgrade their devices, and with Apple, people upgrade without even having a need to do so.

I’ve owned about 30 PC devices over the last 30 years, and I’ve only got 4 of them in use right now. If one were to count the number of Windows devices that people bought over the last 20-30 years, and then assumed that they were active installations, then, Windows would have an installed active user base of some 40-50 billion. But, people don’t keep the old technology around when they purchase upgraded equipment. That would be ludicrous. Your figures are very faulty and ridiculous.

I gave you a bit of logical interpretation of Apple’s own numbers, but you are so upset that I would even think about disputing your numbers, that you are failing to think rationally.

The same kind of thing occurs with the Android faithful, who constantly mention the number of activations of Android devices, without regarding that, perhaps not all of them can get added to the number of active installations. Sales of devices does not equate to having that number added to the current installed base. It doesn’t happen that way..

Here's a report (from 2013):

http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/06/800-million-android-smartphones-300-million-iphones-in-active-use-by-december-2013-study-says/

"By the end of this current year (2013), 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use: 798 million of them will run Android, 294 million will run Apple’s iOS, and 45 million will run Windows Phone, according to a new study by ABI Research."

Though the report is about a year old, there is absolutely no way that the figure for iPhones is going to surpass the "leader", that being Android, which had close to 800 billion.

iPads are losing sales, and the only thing that will continue selling in high numbers will be iPhones. But, iPhones won't get anywhere to 100 new users any time soon, and not even in the next 5 years. People are content enough with devices which do all they need from smartphones, with plenty of features and power to spare.

So, again, your 1 billion is about the number of iOS devices "sold", and not the number of active installations of the OS. People do retire their old devices, you know, and not all iOS devices sold in the last 13 years will still be around to keep the number at 1 billion active users.