CNBC December 16, 2019
- In the last 10 years, Apple’s iPhone has transformed from a niche product for early adopters to a dominant economic force.
- Apple sold at least 1.4 billion iPhones during the decade, according to its official sales figures, and probably closer to 1.6 billion units after this year’s estimates are added.
- The last 10 years could be viewed as the iPhone decade — when smartphones went mainstream, created billion-dollar corporations, rearranged existing industries and changed the world.
My iPhone is the first thing I see in the morning, after its alarm wakes me up. It’s often the last thing I see at night, when I check a few emails or play...