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ebw on 30 August 2016
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thismeintiel said:
ebw said:

Hmmm, a console that's sold 44 million units worldwide since launch 3 years ago, versus a phone that's sold 200 million units in the last year alone and which has about a BILLION active users.  There are a lot of people who give a crap about the new iPhone, probably more than any other device on the planet.  To be fair it is tempered by the fact that the iPhone is much more mass-market and the PS4 is somewhat more specialized (with the great success of the PS4 also comes a higher proportion of casual customers).  The logic you propose would imply that since Apple Watch has a dominant share of the smartwatch market, the world will be paying more attention to the Apple Watch 2 than the iPhone 7: I seriously doubt that.

200M units?  Yes.  1B ACTIVE users?  Lol, no.  Apple makes quite a bit of their money from a lot of repeat buyers who MUST have the new iPhone every year.  That's not to downplay their success, cause 200M is still nuts.  I'm just saying ~1/7th of the world's population is not on iPhones.  They'd have WAY more marketshare than ~15% if that were true.

Sorry, I was mistaken about active users.  The actual hard number is that there are >1B active Apple devices in use today.  Consequently your repeat buyer explanation doesn't hold water.  The active devices figure must be coming from crossover sales of Macs, Apple TVs and Apple Watches, and the iPhone no doubt comprises a substantial portion of those.  Do you believe that only half of those 1B are iPhones?  If not, what fraction of those 1 billion active devices do you think is iPhones?