Letters to the Editor
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Billions & Billions
>Apple has a long way to go before it has numbers
>in the billions, literally. Won't be on our
>lifetimes.
If you'd bothered to read my post, you'll note that Apple isn't the ONLY company in that list I made - I said companies like Apple, Google and Nintendo. Perhaps you should bone up on your reading comprehension before you make boneheaded criticisms.
That having been said, there are 3.3 billion cell phone accounts worldwide already, according to this website:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22410
Assuming Apple can capture a 10% share of that market - not unreasonable, as hardware prices continue to plummet - that's 330 million devices sold. Assuming people replace them every 3 years - again, not an unreasonable assumption - that's a billion mobile phones over the next decade.
This doesn't even include all of the other devices we're gonna see crop up running full-fledged computer operating systems like OSX over the next decade. There are gonna be home media receivers, automotive devices, a new generation of video cameras, e-books, videogame systems, and probably quite a few devices nobody has even though of . . . yet.