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2001ipod launched Cumulative

sales pass one million

Cumulativesales of 5.7 million

Cumulative sales of 1.34 million

Cumulative sales of iOS 100 million

Cumulativesales of iOS approached 600 million

iphoneis launched

ipadlaunched

Sources | AAPL Investors; iPad versus iPhone versus iPod, Asymco; and Television History - A Timeline, The University of Texas School of Law Tarlton Law Library 1878-2005

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2014Cumulativesales of iOS approached 900 million

The TV: from nought to most homes in the US in half a century.

iOS: from nought to 900 million pockets, purses and bags in just 13 years.

TIME TOTAKE-OFF

It used to take decades for a new product to take off. Now it can happen in hardly any time.

The indications are that this change is accelerating.

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GE sells first mechanicaltelevision set in England

Evening TV broad-cast across four stations in the US, estimated 380,000 audience

3% of TV owning households have colour TVs in the US

17,368,000 colour TVs sold in one year

98% of US households have at least one colour TV

50% of TVs in the US are colour

67,145,000 TVs in the US

First TV commercial; its broadcaster Charles Jenkins is fined

The coronation of King George V1 & Wimbledon

First colourTV set sold

9,000 TVs soldin London

1925fIRST MOVING TELEVISION PICTURES

1937

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2008average US home has two or more colour tELEVISIONS

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