Stating that the iPhone is popular is much akin to making other obvious statements concerning the religious leanings of the Pope and the woodland bathroom habits of members of the Ursidae family.
But few people would have guessed that in the space of a year the iPhone would lift Apple’s total revenue by a whopping 27 percent. The company has now shifted 13 million iPhones worldwide, 3 million more than Jobs’s initial projection of 10 million in the first calendar year.
Not only that but the App Store’s performance is currently nothing short of stratospheric, reaching the 200 million download mark just 100 days after its launch. Admittedly, many of those downloads will have been of free applications, meaning that of those 200 million downloads, a significant percentage will not translate into generated revenue. Still, with the App Store generating $60 million in sales within the first month, chances are Apple isn’t too concerned about the number of free downloads iPhone users are racking up.
Look’s like dinner’s on Apple for the time being.
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