According to a new study, the sales curve for iOS devices is soaring upward that it is likely to hit the billion-unit mark by the end of 2014 and early 2015. Horace Dediu, an analyst at Asymco, released a graph yesterday that he used iTunes account growth as a measure of device growth.
Last week, during the recent presentation of the new iPhone, Apple announced that iTunes now has 435 million active accounts.
Dediu calculated that the number of new iTunes accounts is increasing by 12 million every month. He found that this growth pattern reflected a corresponding rise in iOS usage.
Although he admitted that such a count is "not very accurate," the analyst suggests that Apple will sell more than a billion iOS devices - iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch - by the end of 2014 / early 2015.
Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that his company had sold 400 million iOS devices in total by June. Apple's quest to reach 400 million iOS devices sold began in mid-2007 with the launch of the first iPhone.
If the trend followed by Dediu still turns out to be true, then this will mean that Apple will sell 2 times more iOS devices in the next two years than it currently has. While it took Apple 5 years to reach the 400 million mark, current growth trends suggest an additional 600 million units will be sold by early 2015.
