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| The iPad launched in January 2010, and has sold more units every quarter. |
This chart shows unit sales of each products in the first six quarters after launch. The iPhone launched in June 2007, but didn't really take off until the iPhone 3G launched in July 2008, five quarters later.
Apple sales charts shows what analysts like to call a "blow-out
quarter till q4, 2010 , selling more than 16 million iPhones during the three
months that included the holiday season.
In fact, Apple has sold 30 million iPhones in the last two
quarters. In the three years before that, the company had sold a total of 60
million units.
The iPhone may have kicked off the smartphone revolution, but so far the iPad is selling much faster.
That's partly because the iPad
benefits from all the work Apple did for the iPhone, including a huge base of developers and customers
who already understand how the product works. The iPhone is also constrained by
carrier contracts -- it's hard to convince customers to buy a new phone before
their current contract is up -- and had stronger competition at launch (like
the BlackBerry).
And the numbers are huge:
It shipped 9.25 million iPads and
20.34 million iPhones.
Mac shipments were a miss at 3.95
million, vs. a 4.2 million Street consensus.
iPods were another miss with 7.54
million shipments vs. a 8.4 million Street consensus.
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