{"id":1251,"date":"2010-04-30T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2010-04-30T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:05:25","slug":"hmmm-are-iphones-and-ipads-really-as-popular-as-everyone-thinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/30\/hmmm-are-iphones-and-ipads-really-as-popular-as-everyone-thinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmmm&#8230;Are iPhones and iPads Really As Popular As Everyone Thinks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the mainstream media is constantly reporting on the popularity of iPhones and iPads. \u00a0And there&#8217;s a raging debate over Flash vs. HTML5 video because of them. \u00a0But in the grand scheme of things, are these products really that popular, or is Apple simply brilliant at generating press? \u00a0Well, I decided to dig up some numbers and find out.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that statistics on anything web related are never truly accurate. \u00a0And on top of that, major companies are often very secretive when it comes to revealing actual product sales. \u00a0But I tried to dig up the most reputable numbers I could find&#8230;and here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Number of iPhones sold:<\/strong> 41,153,000 (<em>source Canalys<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Number of mobile phones in the world:<\/strong> 800,000,000 (<em>source Bloomberg<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>That gives iPhones 5% of the mobile market<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Of the top 20 mobile phone manufacturers, the number who build phones that support Flash:<\/strong> 19 (<em>Apple is the only one who doesn&#8217;t, source Bloomberg<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Number of iPads sold:<\/strong> 1,150,000 (<em>source Chitika Labs<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Number of netbooks sold, 2008 and 2009 combined:<\/strong> 50 million (<em>source Gigaom<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>That gives the iPad 2% of the market<\/strong>. \u00a0But then again everyone argues the iPad isn&#8217;t a netbook and it&#8217;s only a month old. \u00a0Then again, the estimated sales for netbooks in 2010 is another 40 million units<\/li>\n<li><strong>The number of Kindles sold to date:<\/strong> 1.5 million (<em>source Amazon<\/em>). \u00a0The Kindle is also considered an iPad competitor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take from these numbers what you will, but it sure seems the popularity of iPhones and iPads, in the grand scheme of things, is roughly equal to the popularity of Macs vs. PC&#8217;s, where it&#8217;s long been estimated that Windows owns around 85% of the market.\u00a0 Or in other words, Apple makes a lot of noise with their products, but their user-base (historically and currently)\u00a0 is an overwhelming minority.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, just so you know, I&#8217;m not partial to any platform or device&#8230;I use &#8220;Mac stuff&#8221; and &#8220;Windows stuff&#8221; equally every day&#8230;whatever gets the job done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the mainstream media is constantly reporting on the popularity of iPhones and iPads. \u00a0And there&#8217;s a raging debate over Flash vs. HTML5 video because of them. \u00a0But in the grand scheme of things, are these products really that popular, or is Apple simply brilliant at generating press? \u00a0Well, I decided to dig up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[529,528,531,530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}