Apple sold 645,000 devices per day in the 2nd quarter - Blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes over at ZDNet did the math and came up with some staggering statistics about Apple's hardware sales during the last quarter. As we heard during the Q2 201245,000 devices per day in the 2nd quarter. This is an amazing number of hardware by just one company. This means that 4.5 iPhone is sold every second. To put it in perspective, this is the same number of babies being born every second worldwide.

Individually, the numbers are staggering. Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones, 11.8 million iPads, 7.7 million iPods and 4 million Macs. This works out to an incredible 58.6 million devices sold over the 91 days of the financial quarter. To put that another way, it is nearly 645,000 devices a day, with over 385,000 of these being iPhones, and almost 130,000 of them iPads.

This is more than the number of children being born every day. So theoretically there will be a day that every one on earth will own an Apple of some type.

It's also obvious from Kingsley-Hughes's almost-obsessive charting of cumulative and quarterly sales of Apple's devices that Apple has "undoubtedly made the transition to being a true post-PC company." As he notes when discussing the chart below, "If we add Macs into the equation, they are barely a blip on the post-PC landscape." It's a fascinating visual look at the changing product mix at Apple and how it is has completely moved away from dependence on the Mac as a primary revenue source.

iPod sales may be declining reflecting the decline of Music Industry as a whole, and Mac sales stagnant reflecting the stagnant PC sales, but strong iPhone sales along with the iPad going from strength to strength means that Apple has nothing to worry about.

However, one has to start thinking about what will replace the phone and tablet in 5-6 years or so as one has to start developing the next big thing now.

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