Apple iPhone sales surpass human reproduction in the fourth quarter
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Actually, the daily rates cited on the tweet are a little off. Based on stats from Apple and Wolfram Alpha, the number of Apple iPhones sold daily during the fourth calendar quarter was 377,551 which still outnumbers the 371,124 average daily birthrate. There is no denying that many Apple iPhone users treat their handset as though it were a child.
In at least one way, raising a baby is like owning an iPhone. You must teach both to take their first byte.
source: CNET
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In Q4, more Apple iPhones were sold per day than live births on Earth |
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1. superguy posted on 25 Jan 2012, 13:29 12 5
Wasn't Google claiming they were activating 350k+ Android phones per day? Come on PA, if you're going to mention the one with a stat like this, you should at least mention the other.
19. xoutrageousx posted on 25 Jan 2012, 16:07 2 2
you said it right..."claiming"...claims and stats on paper are 2 different things there bud.
20. andro. posted on 25 Jan 2012, 16:07 8 5
Agreed. This PA article is yet another ridiculous apple article. There actually up to 900,000 android activations per day.
Hmmmm so that's 900,000 per day x about 90 days in a quarter period = 81,000,000. Surely there hasn't been 81,000,000 births in that same period so android sales have surely massively out numbered births
35. JeffdaBeat posted on 25 Jan 2012, 17:12 8 1
I love Apple...I really do. But even I'm getting tired of the massive amount of Apple stories. I come to PhoneArena to hear about both popular devices as well as obscure ones. But this site has literally turned into a lot of Apple and a slightly lesser amount of Android stories.
Maybe we just need to have conversations on the few other stories they post. If this is anything like television journalism, whatever gets the most response is what gets the most airtime. So maybe we need to change and start having 35 comments on a different topic.
36. JeffdaBeat posted on 25 Jan 2012, 17:19 3 1
Now that I think about it, other stories don't really get too much conversation going. I looked at the front page and if it's an Apple story, people flock to comment, whether it's good or bad. But the Android and phone posts have maybe 3 or 4 comments. The reason there are so many Apple stories is because both Apple haters and fanboys flock to it.
I kind of think that's funny in a way. People who hate Apple don't just ignore the story. In fact, they make it more popular by starting fights. And PhoneArena makes money because of how many views the adds on the page gets...Thanks
50. thinking posted on 26 Jan 2012, 12:16 0 0
And maybe they should have a like/dislike button on the stories just like they have on the comments? Now, is that a patentable idea?
53. drahmad posted on 26 Jan 2012, 12:23 0 1
yest but iPhone is a single device....and androids are many devices.
62. thinking posted on 29 Jan 2012, 07:29 0 0
Android is one OS running many devices, just like iOS, with their different releases..
3. remixfa posted on 25 Jan 2012, 13:38 4 6
Yet android activations are still higher. Why is it some odd comparison when ios is involved but not android? And let's be clear, it's not just "the one iphone", it's a total of ios devices.
38. Lucas777 posted on 25 Jan 2012, 17:32 2 2
so then there is no "one android phone" that sells more than babies
40. andro. posted on 25 Jan 2012, 17:41 0 1
stepping back and looking at it theres only one company crude and controlling enough to have a statements circulating paying more attention and glory to its sales figures boasts and money gouging than that paid to the actual event of human life births
46. Lucas777 posted on 25 Jan 2012, 21:59 2 1
lol who wud that be? samsung? they seem to be making nasty commercials… dont see apple or rim or htc making things like that...
51. thinking posted on 26 Jan 2012, 12:18 0 0
Apple has quite a few nasty commercials comparing their "great" macs with the windows systems.
55. Lucas777 posted on 26 Jan 2012, 16:06 0 0
i wud not consider those "crude"... neither wud i really consider samsungs... so idk who the guy was refering to
43. remixfa posted on 25 Jan 2012, 21:02 0 2
there is no "one iphone" that sells more than babies either, dumbnuts, there are 3 of them on sale right now. wow, u crazed ibots really have to get with the times and get new arguements.
45. Lucas777 posted on 25 Jan 2012, 21:56 2 0
did i say anywhere that there is one iphone that does? obviously u did not even bother to read my comment… i simply said there is not one android phone either… but then again anything anti-android seems to be "ibots" to u..
58. remixfa posted on 28 Jan 2012, 04:13 0 0
no, i read it quite clearly. your implying that "1 iphone" sells more than babies with your question about "1 android phone". Otherwise your quip is completely pointless. Well.. its pointless anyways, but still.
60. Lucas777 posted on 28 Jan 2012, 14:25 0 0
haha funny considering i was simply restating what u were saying, albeit not making android seem glorious--sorry... i think u read too much into my comment as i was simply saying that while there is not one iphone, there is not one android phone, as you were implying there was (quite falsely in fact)
