Apple now has 1.8 billion active devices

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During the holiday season, Apple made more money than ever, and its growth has helped the company add 150 million more active devices. Apple has over one billion active devices, according to Tim Cook, the company's CEO.

In January 2020, Apple reported 1.5 billion active devices, which is up from 1.65 billion a year ago. After selling its billionth iPhone in 2016 and then hitting 900 million active users in 2019, Apple crossed the 1 billion active iPhones milestone a year ago. The number of Apple hardware covered by the 1.8 billion figure is based on the fact that a device is counted as active if it has an Apple service within the past 90 days.

There are now over 3 billion active devices that have access to the Play Store. There are more than 3 billion devices that are based on the OS. There are more than one billion active Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices. The Xbox One and Series X are counted as Windows 10 devices by Microsoft.

In the first quarter of its fiscal year, Apple had a record-breaking revenue of $123 billion and record profits of $34.6 billion. Thanks to holiday sales, the Apple product accounted for a staggering $71.63 billion in revenue.