During the last evening the company Apple announced financial results for Q4 2015 and together with them he offered some information about his users, more precisely it seems like fish 1 billion iPhones, iPads and iPods are active globally at the moment.
The figure is 25% higher than the one reported in Q4 2014 by the Apple company, so from then until now 250 million more iPhones, iPads and iPods were activated worldwide, this being a real achievement thanks to the substantial increase in sales of iPhone terminals.
If you are curious how Apple counts active terminals, well Apple's CFO, Luca Maestri, stated that Apple marks as active any terminal that has accessed iCloud services in the last 90 days, so we are talking about a fairly accurate counter of active iDevices.
The figure of 1 billion active iPhones, iPads and iPods announced in 2016 by the Apple company is smaller than the total number of active Android terminals on the entire planet, but we are talking about two completely different ecosystems.
The growth of our Services business accelerated during the quarter to produce record results, and our installed base recently crossed a major milestone of one billion active devices. We have a huge number of devices actively engaged with our services and that number is growing very fast.
For the Apple company, we are talking about a real achievement, and this is because a single manufacturer managed to add up to 1 billion active mobile terminals on the entire planet, those from Cupertino being in an extremely select group of companies with such achievements.
