Joke about the fact that after the announcement of the new iPhone to the previous generation model turn into a pumpkin, has nothing to do with reality. The old version of “Apple” smartphones are very much alive.
According to research firm Newzoo, currently in working condition is two-thirds released in the last 10 years iPhone. You can calculate how much this is in real terms. At the end of last year, Apple sold a billion iPhone, and as of March 2017 were sold about 1,163 billion devices. Of them are still working as 62.6% or approximately 728 million phones.
Now the share of iPhone in the global sales of smartphones is about 15%. However, in April the share of active smartphones Apple has reached its target of 25% of the total. The bulk of the active iPhone accounts on China — 228 million devices. In second place is the USA, where there are 120 million, or 16.4%.
Among all the active devices on the most popular was the 2014 flagship iPhone 6 with a share of 21%. On the second place in popularity — the iPhone 6s (18%), followed by the iPhone 7 (11%), iPhone 6 Plus (9%) and iPhone 6s Plus (8%).