By: Michelle Maisto, eWeek
Apple sold 156 million iOS devices in 2011, which is putting the company on pace to outsell its signature Mac. Still, Apple CEO Tim Cooks thinks the company can do even better. Apple CEO Tim Cook offered new ways of considering the success of Apple products during a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco Feb. 14. Since the April 2010 introduction of the iPad, Apple has sold 55 million of the tablets, Cook shared. Put in context, it took Apple three years to sell as many iPhones, five years to sell as many iPods and 22 years to sell as many Macs. Asymconf’s Horace Dediu, plotting these numbers, put things still a different way in a Feb. 16 blog post: “The iOS platform as a whole reached 316 million cumulative units at the end of last year,” wrote Dediu. “The iOS platform overtook the OS X platform in under four years, and more iOS devices were sold in 2011 (156 million) than all the Macs ever sold (122 million).
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