π Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-31
3 Billion iPhones.

Apple has now sold over 3B iPhones since the device's 2007 launch; it announced 1B sold in July 2016, and is estimated to have reached 2B around September 2021
By Chance Miller / 9to5Mac. View the full context on Techmeme.
18 years ago, rumors swirled.

Rumor: 3G iPhone Coming
According to an engineer who worked on the network/radio for the iPhone, there's a good reason Apple didn't have 3G in this iteration of the iPhone. He
When the iPhone launched, it was $499.
If you had invested $499 in AAPL 18 years ago, you would have $20,421 today. Thatβs enough to buy about one dozen iPhone 16 Pro Max 1TB.