“Let’s talk iPhone” reads the banner above today’s iPhone event in Cupertino. Newly minted CEO Tim Cook glossed over some pretty impressive iPhone statistics in introductory overview on the phone, namely that the iPhone 4 has sold one half of total iPhones sold since it was introduced late last June.
“The iPhone has 5% share of the worldwide market of handsets,” Cook revealed. “I could have shown the bigger smartphone numbers. But we believe over time all handsets become smartphones.” Emphasizing that the mobile phone market is 1.5 billion units annually Cook noted, “An enormous opportunity for Apple.”
Cook went on to state that 93% of Fortune 500 companies are testing the iPhone on an enterprise level and that it ranks first in customer satisfaction among smartphones, according to JD Power and Associates. “The iPhone is pummeling the competition,” he said, emphasizing that there was more coming on the iPhone later in the talk, obviously.
As Cook began the announcement emphasizing the Chinese Apple Store foot traffic, namely 100K visitors on opening weekend in Shanghai, (“six stores in China now — we will do more!”) it’s worth noting that the burgeoning Asian smartphone market is opportunity enough.
Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007. Among the key offerings from Apple’s product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod (offered with...
Apple’s iPhone was introduced at MacWorld in January 2007 and officially went on sale June 29, 2007, selling 146,000 units within the first weekend of launch. The phone has been hailed as revolutionary with its bundle of advanced mobile web browsing, music and video playback, and touch screen controls. The iPhone is exclusively carried on the networks of both AT&T and Verizon in the U.S. An iPhone can function as a video camera (video recording was not a standard feature...
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