Apple has now sold three billion iPhones
Apple has sold three billion iPhones since the product was launched in 2007, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Thursday during the company’s second-quarter earnings call. It took Apple nine years to sell the billionth iPhone, a milestone the company reached in 2016. This implies that Apple sold two billion between 2016 and now — also a nine-year period — marking the product’s growing popularity. While Apple celebrates three billion iPhones sold, the company has struggled a bit in the stock market this year, as the tech giant fell behind Nvidia and Microsoft as the market’s most highly valued businesses. So perhaps a bigger cause for celebration at Apple is that its iPhone sales were stronger this quarter than expected. Sales of the iPhone, Apple’s most popular product, are…
