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June 27, 2012 01:56 pm GMT

Strategy Analytics: Apple Has Shipped 250M iPhones, Made $150B In Revenues In The Past 5 Years

iphone-4We know that Apple has been making a killing from the iPhone, with the device reigning as the single-most popular smartphone in a number of markets -- despite Android-based handsets collectively having a bigger lead. Now, with the fifth anniversary of the iPhone fast approaching -- it's June 29 -- Strategy Analytics has calculated just how big that killing is: Apple has shipped 250 million iPhones worldwide, and the iPhone has generated $150 billion in cumulative revenues.The figures cover the entire family of iPhone devices -- from the first model released in 2007 through to the most recent iPhone 4S; but Strategy Analytics tells me that the device that has sold the best of all has been the iPhone 4. However, there is a dark shadow around today's news, too. Strategy Analytics thinks that if the first five years were awesome, the next five will be a lot more challenging, for several reasons:

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