12 Mind-Blowing Facts About Apple That Show Just How Massive The Company Really Is
12 Mind-Blowing Facts About Apple That Show Just How Massive The Company Really Is
Last quarter Apple's revenue was $42.1 billion. That's larger than the entire economy of Turkmenistan.
Apple has $155 billion in cash on hand. Split equally among the US population (316 million), that's 49 cents per person.
That's enough cash to buy 2,384 Gulfstream G650s, with a little left over for fuel.
Apple sold 5.52 million Macs last quarter. That's enough to give every Minnesotan his or her own computer.
Apple sold 39.3 million iPhones last quarter, more than enough to give one to every Canadian.
If Apple were a national economy, it would be the world's 27th largest, between Belgium and Venezuela.
Apple is expected to net over $100 billion in profit this year. That's enough to buy Snapchat 10 times over!
The difference in value between Apple and the next-largest publicly traded company, ExxonMobile, is roughly $60 billion. That's enough to buy 444 F-22 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin.
Apple sold 243 million iOS devices in the last 12 months. That's one device for 77% of Americans, or nearly 10 devices for every North Korean.
Apple sold 12.9 million iPads last quarter, or 258 for every employee.
Apple is expected to sell around 30 million Apple Watches in the next two years. Assuming each watch will sell for at least $350, we're talking about $10.5 billion in revenue, which is about the size of Nicaragua's economy.
Put another way, Apple's Watch revenue will be large enough to buy Roman Abramovich's "Eclipse" yacht 433 times over by the end of 2016.
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