Apple Has Bought 3 Billion iPhones, And It is Nowhere Close to Carried out

Throughout Apple’s newest earnings name, the corporate’s CEO Tim Cook dinner revealed that since 2007, Apple has shipped 3 billion iPhones. He stated, “It is tough to see a world the place iPhone’s not dwelling in it.”

On X, Apple executive Greg Joswiak additionally celebrated the landmark: “3 billion iPhones bought! Thanks to everybody who’s made the iPhone such an vital a part of their lives. I am extremely excited for what’s forward.”

3 billion iPhones bought!  

Thanks to everybody who’s made iPhone such an vital a part of their lives. I am extremely excited for what’s forward!

— Greg Joswiak (@gregjoz) July 31, 2025

Whereas Joswiak might be immediately hinting on the upcoming iPhone 17 lineup, experiences counsel that Apple has an even more enticing roadmap planned for the upcoming years, as the corporate goes to extend the variety of iPhones it launches, from the brand new iPhone 17 Air later this yr to “e” fashions to Apple’s first foldable devices, which may begin to see the sunshine of day in late 2026. Not solely that, however Apple additionally has the iPhone 20, anticipated for 2027, which may very properly supply the most important redesign for the reason that iPhone X.

Whereas the iPhone stays Apple’s greatest income, the corporate continues to suppose “about different issues,” Tim Cook dinner stated within the third-quarter earnings name this week. It nonetheless views new {hardware} as “complementary units” to the iPhone, corresponding to OpenAI’s upcoming AI device being developed by Jony Ive. Nonetheless, Apple’s new tackle the iPhone’s future may be very totally different from the one its companies chief Eddy Cue shared throughout his United States v. Google antitrust case testimony. In March, the corporate’s prime government stated, “Chances are you’ll not want an iPhone 10 years from now, as loopy because it sounds.”

At that second, the chief was speaking about how AI will proceed to evolve and play a vital position in folks’s routines, which might be a problem for Apple, which is presently lagging behind within the race.

Apparently sufficient, Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner has additionally been sharing his imaginative and prescient for AR glasses that might doubtlessly change smartphones for a few years. Bloomberg previously reported that Cook dinner has a “grand imaginative and prescient, which hasn’t modified in a decade.” Whereas the iPhone will doubtless proceed to stay round for the following decade, it won’t look very like the system we all know at this time.