Apple Reveals 900 Million Active iPhone Users In The World; 1.4 Billion Active Users Of Apple Devices

For the first time since iPhone’s launch by Apple’s late co-founder, Steve Jobs in 2008, the company has disclosed that iPhones account for 900 million of its active devices, an increase of around 75 million over last year, reports Tech Crunch.

“Our global active install base of iPhone continues to grow and has reached an all-time high at the end of December. We are disclosing that number now for the first time; it has surpassed 900 million devices,” said Apple’s chief financial officer (CFO), Luca Maestri, during the company’s earnings call on 29 January.

The company also added that the number of active Apple devices, including iPhones, Macs, iPads and Watches, stood at 1.4 billion at the end of December 2018, growing 1.3 billion at the end of January 2018.

If all 900 million iPhone users were considered to be a single nation, then it would be the third largest country in the world. Also, if all 1.4 billion users of Apple users were considered similarly, it would be the largest country in the world, bigger than China and India.

Slowing iPhone Sales

Despite these impressive numbers, Apple has had a not-so-impressive quarter. For the first time in a decade, the company’s revenues and profits fell and iPhone sales also took a hit owing to changing customer preferences and increasing competition in China, one of Apple’s top performing markets.

However, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has stated that the company will introduce a slew of products in 2019 to fight back the decline.“Apple innovates like no other company in the world and we are not taking our foot off the gas,” he added to Wall Street Journal.

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