Apple's iPhone installed base hits 900 million

Engadget --------- Apple has been happy to tell you how many iOS devices it has shipped, but how many iPhones are there in the wild, really? You now know. As part of a call discussing the company's mixed earnings, CFO Luca Maestri revealed that Apple has an installed base of 900 million iPhones -- the first time the company has revealed that statistic. We've asked Apple if it can clarify the definition of that term, but it added that there were 1.4 billion active iOS devices as of the end of 2018. There's no shortage of hardware in the market, even if Apple might not enjoy Android's sheer ubiquity. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.