Apple has 1 billion active devices

[Kaido]

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/26/apple-has-1-billion-active-devices/

The figure includes all iOS, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch units that have used Cupertino's services in the past 90 days.

Makes me glad I'm not in charge of infrastructure over there

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Wow.

Makes me glad I'm not in charge of infrastructure over there

Are you kidding? Makes me wish I WAS.

 

[Printer Bandit]

I wonder how may inactive devices are in landfills?

 

[midwestfisherman]

I wonder how may inactive devices are in landfills?

Eleventy billion!

 

[NEDM64]

I wonder how may inactive devices are in landfills?

Apple offers a recycling program.

 

[JasonCoder]

Does Apple have to actually start worrying about when it runs out of markets?

 

[Oyeve]

I have a desk full of around 25 iphones and ipads at work. I bet a third of those active device numbers are IT guys just keeping this crap in a drawer like me.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I wonder how may inactive devices are in landfills?

And sharing space with all those AOL CDs.

 

[Kaido]

I have a desk full of around 25 iphones and ipads at work. I bet a third of those active device numbers are IT guys just keeping this crap in a drawer like me.

Hah yup, I have iPad 1's that won't go above 5.1.3 (iirc), iPhone 4's, etc. Piles of 'em. Some for spares, some with defects like screen cracks, some with just software that's so old that they aren't really useful anymore.