Re:Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ b...
by kllrnohj on Monday December 21, 2020 @11:51PM
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To put that 10 million sales in 2008 into context, the Motorola Razr sold 140 million devices over a 4 year period ending in 2007.
So... by & large nobody had an iPhone or smartphone. They all had Razrs (or other feature-phones) instead.
Re:Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ b...
by peddling-brink on Monday December 21, 2020 @07:04PM
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There weren't that many smartphones then. Most people were using feature phones.
I don't think that's true. For example, less than a year after its release, the iPhone accounted for 28% of smartphones sold in the U.S. (and presumably for a greater percentage of smartphone-sale revenue): see https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/02/iphone-owns-28-perce....
And half a year after that, the news was better still: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/10/apple-officially-sur...