Apple Has Now Shipped 3 Billion Iphones

Apple has shipped its 3 billionth iPhone, Tim Cook has revealed during a telephone for nan company's third 4th earnings. The institution released nan first iPhone successful 2007 and sold its billionth iPhone successful 2016. It is believed to person shipped its 2 billionth sometime successful 2021, and now only 4 years later, it has reached nan caller milestone. Apple's CEO said nan iPhone enjoyed a double digit maturation successful nan 3rd 4th and that nan institution earned $94 cardinal successful revenue, up 10 percent twelvemonth complete year. In a tweet, Apple master Mark Gurman suggested that iPhone income complete nan past 4th were driven by group who bought 1 retired of fearfulness that nan instrumentality would beryllium retired of their scope successful nan early owed to Trump's tariffs.

Speaking of tariffs, they costs nan institution $800 cardinal successful nan 4th ending successful June, Cook said during nan call. In nan adjacent 4th ending successful September, Apple believes tariffs will cost nan institution $1.1 billion.

Apple is slated to denote its next iPhone models successful a matter of weeks, astir apt sometime successful September for illustration past year's devices. Gurman antecedently reported that Apple is releasing an iPhone 17 Air this procreation to lucifer nan Air models of its different products. It will reportedly beryllium an ultra-thin phone, arsenic its nickname implies, will person a azygous camera lens and beryllium powered by a basal A19 chip. The telephone could besides beryllium equipped pinch Apple's in-house modem that debuted pinch nan iPhone 16e and travel pinch a 6.6-inch screen. It could costs buyers astir $900, which is astir $100 much than nan guidelines iPhone 16 and is connected par pinch nan value of nan iPhone 16 Plus.

In summation to announcing Apple's 3 billionth iPhone, Cook besides announced during nan telephone that nan institution is "significantly increasing retired investments" in artificial intelligence. He said an acquisition to boost its AI efforts and accelerate its roadmap wasn't retired of nan question, though he didn't sanction immoderate circumstantial institution that Apple could perchance purchase.