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It’s quite close! They sold nearly 136 million iPhones last year – http://www.statista.com/statistics/12743/worldwide-apple-iphone-sales-since-3rd-quarter-2007/
and the estimated number of births this year will be just over 131 million – http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/greatc.html
However, people last three score years and ten whereas iPhones will be lucky to do the ten
Yes,
Though actually, given that Samsung sell more Android phones than Apple do iPhones, the overall number of smartphones per head of population must be rising very fast…