Which devices is sold more every day, than there are babies born?
What else could it be, but the iPhone.
In its 2012 1st quarter sales figures, Apple sold 37.04 million iPhone’s across the planet accounting for 53% of all of its revenue.
More people across the planet now take home new iPhone’s every day (402,000 units per day), than take home human babies (300,000 human births per day).
The figure needs to be seasonally adjusted as it includes Christmas sales, but nevertheless the numbers are huge and the implications for consumer preferences for their tech and connectivity needs even bigger.
In this weeks FutureTech segment Jason Jordan of Perth’s 6PR and I chat about what this means; what technological road we’re going down and where to from here for mobile technology.
Listen now:
and listen live each week at around 5:05 p.m. (AWST).
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