Ever wondered why Apple is special? Their AirPods business (you know, those little white earbuds you see everywhere) is a whopping $18,000,000,000 per year revenue driver.
> Bloomberg estimates that AirPods sales have exceeded $18 billion yearly since 2021. To put that number in perspective, it surpasses Nintendo's reported total net sales for 2023 (roughly $10 billion). Furthermore, PCMag recently calculated that AirPods generated more revenue than total annual earnings for companies like Spotify, eBay, Airbnb, DoorDash, and OpenAI.
Nearly twice as much as all of Nintendo, more revenue than a lot of Silicon Valley’s darlings. Chapeau, Tim Cook.
