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The iPhone is more than half of Apple’s revenue

The iPhone is more than half of Apple’s revenue

One way to measure the importance of the iPhone is to note that it now accounts for more than half the sales of its increasingly upwardly mobile manufacturer, despite surges in iPad and Mac sales.

It could probably be said that the Apple iPod is the electronic device that convinced a generation or two of people that Apple products were worth carrying with them everywhere. That, of course, was primarily a music thing. Then Apple came out with the iPhone, and a bit later the iPad Touch. Now that generation not only had something to carry with them everywhere, but that something was multitalented. The iPhone was a little computer that people could put in their pocket and run useful little applications on, as well as listen to their music, and by the way, it was also a telephone.

This device has taken over where the iPod left off, becoming an icon of popular world culture that is also a very useful tool for its owners. The accumulated effect of all this positive product Karma is that Apple is selling so many iPhones that they represent more than half of the company’s sales revenue, even though Apple’s iPad tablet computer is selling like wildfire and sales of the Mac computers that are the foundation of the company are also way up. Everything is headed skyward for Apple and the iPhone is now officially more than half that ride, according to a Business Insider article.

The iPhone has been largely responsible for the growth of Apple from a niche computer manufacturer to a leader in the tech and electronics industry. It is also the most popular single handset in an arena full of smartphones, one of the fastest growing segments ever seen in the huge overall cell phone arena. Now, the iPad is in the wings with a similar growth pattern to the iPhone. Could Apple end up with two next-big-thing products in a row?

[Thanks: http://iphonetouch.blorge.com]

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