AirPods Are Becoming a Platform?

Re:AirPods Are Becoming a Platform? by Dwolb on Thursday December 26, 2019 @07:06AM (#21883279)

Regardless of where this debate ends up, AirPods are estimated to have sold 60M units in 2019 [0].

This means AirPods as a stand-alone business is somewhere between a $5B-$15B/year.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-airpods-pro-production...

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Re:AirPods Are Becoming a Platform? by scarface74 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @08:34AM (#21883651)

For another point of reference, that’s larger than the iPod revenue when it peaked in 2007.

So the entire narrative that Apple hasn’t released a successful product since Cook took over is provably false. Both the Watch and AirPods lines are larger than the iPods ever were.

http://www.asymco.com/2019/12/12/ipods-pro/

Yes I realize that the $4 billion quoted in the article was for the Christmas quarter.

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