Disposable, shmisposable, the AirPods' Christmas sales hit peak iPod

Recently, a Piper Jaffrey survey pegged the most favorite outlay of gratitude this holiday season to be... Apple's AirPods. Along with Nike, Apple's brand is a pretty predictable winner in the teen demographic, but last year the meme "Airpods for Christmas" was trending, too.Тhis one won't be an exception, it seems, especially with the launch of the AirPods Pro model. Apple can sleep tight knowing that its wearables and the basic iPhone 11 are among the most desired items for this season's stocking stuffers, as renowned analyst Horace Dediu of Asymco fame ran the numbers, and found out that it may have cracked the $4 billion revenue from AirPods alone over the holiday quarter.There were reports not long ago that Apple has doubled the AirPods orders to its suppliers - from 2 million to 4 million units - so it's entirely plausible that it may have made more from AirPods than from the "peak iPod" last quarter of 2007. 

That statistic alone is pretty staggering, as Apple was known at the time as "the iPod company" and even stopped calling itself Apple Computer as a result of the runaway success of its music player.

Apple's holiday AirPods revenue alone may have passed peak iPod times

To know that a single, almost obligatory to have "hearable" is now hauling in more than what the iPod hauled for Apple at its most popular, is pretty staggering. Long story short, if your teen isn't giving you easy clues what they'd most like as a present, those would be $160-$250 well-spent.

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Daniel, a devoted tech writer at PhoneArena since 2010, has been engrossed in mobile technology since the Windows Mobile era. His expertise spans mobile hardware, software, and carrier networks, and he's keenly interested in the future of digital health, car connectivity, and 5G. Beyond his professional pursuits, Daniel finds balance in travel, reading, and exploring new tech innovations, while contemplating the ethical and privacy implications of our digital future.

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