back to article BEEEELLIONth iPhone sold

Apple has announced it sold the billionth iPhone some time last week. CEO Tim Cook's canned announcement contains a telling sentence, to whit: “We never set out to make the most, but we’ve always set out to make the best products that make a difference.” El Reg's corp-speak pars-o-tronic reckons that's a coded message to …

  1. Jeffrey Nonken

    A million million, or a thousand million? "Billion" in the U.S. usually means the latter.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Obviously a US billion, since it is a US company with a US CEO. And to sell a million million would mean everyone on the planet has over a hundred iPhones in a drawer somewhere.

      1. djstardust

        Most people do have about a hundred of them in a drawer .... all with smashed screens!

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          That would be rather stupid, since replacing the screen costs a lot less than buying a new phone. I've dropped my past iPhones onto concrete once each, the only damage was some scuffing to the edge (plastic on the 3gs, metal on the 4S and the 5) So far the 6S has managed to be drop free (well, drop free onto concrete at least) *knocks on wood*

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