A Fascinating Guest Post Today:
Forget apple pie, Apple, the multinational corporation, is American. In 2011, Apple’s total sales totaled a whopping $128 billion. That’s more than the Gross Domestic Product of 160 countries, including New Zealand, Iraq and Syria, around the globe. It’s the twentieth largest U.S. stock company; it ranks up there with Google, Walmart and Microsoft.
Although Apple promotes its products, it really does not have to. During the release of the new iPads, three million devices were sold in the first seventy-two hours. In terms of sales, 694 iPads are sold every minute, or eleven are sold every second. In 2012, Apple projects to sell another 56.4 million devices; these devices could stretch from Apple’s home base in Cupertino, California to the Big Apple and back, and halfway back to New York City again. Since 2008, sales indicate that owning Apple is as important as owning a vehicle. Apple’s real moneymaker is its iPhone; forty percent of the company’s revenue is from the iPhone alone. In 2011, seventy-two million iPhones were sold worldwide. That’s roughly the weight of the Eiffel Tower. Apple really is the apple of the world’s eye. The facts are absolutely stunning. Let us know what you think below.
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