Apple is now World’s 3rd Largest Mobile Phone Supplier - In Terms of Revenue
By Aaron Besson at 21 October, 2008, 5:31 pm
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Steve Jobs took the mic today at Apple’s conference call discussing Q4 - 2008 financial results.
Steve Jobs says that Apple has sold 6.9M iPhone 3G’s last quarter, that’s more than RIM (BlackBerry) who managed 6.1M in phone sales this last quarter. He also mentioned that Apple is now the World’s 3rd largest mobile phone supplier - in terms of revenue generating $4.6 billion in sales revenue from the iPhone 3G. Nokia and Samsung are first and second respectively while LG and Motorola are fourth and fifth.
(Apple had mobile sales of $4.6 billion for the quarter, Apple is ahead of Sony Ericsson $4.2 billion, LG at $3.4 billion, Motorola with $3.2 billion, and seventh place RIM at $2.1 billion.)
Apple has surpassed its 10M iPhone goal for 2008/9. Steve also mentioned that Apple has no plans to go forward with NetBooks or Tablets saying that the iPhone/Touch covers that market.
Other interesting things mentioned were that AppStore customers downloaded almost 200 million apps from the App Store by tomorrow, with the figure being reached in just 102 days. There are over 5,500 apps in 62 countries. “Competitors are scrambling to copy the App Store, but it’s not easy,” Jobs adds.
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