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Originally Posted by chemgear
Additionally, if you look at the actual sales numbers (under data and references) - sales from every quarter roughly doubled (or more) from the previous year in numbers of iphone sales. Every year with the exception of Q4 2011 when everybody was waiting for the 4S.
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Which is precisely why they can't grow at this rate forever. Your link showed 72 million iphones in 2011. If they sell ~140 million in 2012, ~280 million in 2013, ~560 million in 2014, and then over a billion in 2015.
That's basically impossible, since it would require every 2nd person on earth to purchase a new iPhone every 3 years.
I'm not saying Apple isn't a great company with good products and huge consumer cachet. But everything hits a practical limit at some point.