Unbelievable iPhone Numbers

Posted: January 16th, 2009 | Author: John Koetsier | Filed under: tags-not-categories | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment »

Read this slowly:

But late last year, he crunched the numbers and came to a shocking conclusion: that the 13 million owners of iPhone owners had already downloaded as much software as—are you sitting down—1.1 billion other cell-phone owners.

The “he” is Jeff Holden, an Amazon alumnus, and founder of Pelago, a mobile applications development company. The quote is in a BusinessWeek article announcing that iPhone users have downloaded 500 million apps from Apple’s App Store.

Think about that: 13 million iPhone users … more software than 1.1 billion other cell phone users.

If anyone thinks that the game has not changed, they are deluding themselves.

If anyone thinks that there’s nothing all the special about the iPhone, they’re delusional.

If anyone thinks that all the iPhone excitement is just hype, they’re not living in this world.

This is simply amazing. And the reason is: a device that works, a device that is friendly, a device that is usable, a device that invites use.

More on that last though later … as my wife just got her first cell phone: an iPhone.

Related posts:

  1. Apple Must Improve iPhone App Approval
  2. What really is the iPhone?
  3. Device turns iPhone, iPod touch into universal remote | The Loop
  4. The iPhone comes to Canada … well, sorta
  5. iPhone is a trojan horse for Mac software development

Comments(1)
  1. Eric Lee says:
    January 16, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    Hello. I was reading someone elses blog and saw you on their blogroll. Would you be interested in exchanging blog roll links? If so, feel free to email me.

    Thanks.

Leave a Reply