Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), launched in 2007 the first model of iPhone, his first smartphone, completely changing the industry of this type of mobile terminals, despite the fact that no one is giving success to those from Cupertino.
In the graph above you can see how much the sales of iPhone terminals have increased in recent years, in 2007 Apple sold 1.37 million units, while in fiscal year 2015 it sold no less than 231.22 million units in over 130 countries around the globe.
The spectacular evolution of iPhone terminal sales is also based on the fact that Apple managed to implement functions that made its terminals extremely popular, but also on the basis of the fact that its marketing team is extremely skilled in what it does to convince the world to buy the devices.
Based on the graph above, the Apple company sold in the last 8 years no less than 819.75 million iPhone terminals, the figure being a colossal one, especially since a quarter of all sales were made only during the fiscal year 2015 by those from Cupertino.
The biggest increases in the sales of iPhone terminals were achieved between the fiscal years 2011 - 2012 and 2014 - 2015, in the second case the increase was almost 50% in sales, a spectacular one for any kind of smartphone manufacturer -s with very high sales.
Having said that, at the end of the fiscal year 2016, the Apple company will register over 1 billion iPhones sold worldwide during the entire existence of this type of product.
