I just recently got around to listening to Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, speak at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium (a “symposium?” Faaaancy). A lot of people made note of his comment that Apple’s sold 90 million iPods like it was news. In fact, Apple first posted that number when discussing their most recent quarterly results (Q1 F2007) in January 2007. Since we’re going into the final month of Q2 of the current fiscal year, and estimates have Apple selling between 10 and 12 million more iPods, I think we’ll see Apple’s cumulative iPod sales cross 100 million by the end of this month.
That’s 1, followed by eight zeros.
So what does 100,000,000 iPods mean? Well, over the course of the iPod’s life, Apple has sold:
18,181,818 iPods per year
1,666,667 iPods per month
353,357 iPods per week
50,352 iPods per day
2,098 iPods per hour
35 iPods per minute
1 iPod roughly every 2 seconds
On average, of course.