<story><title>Apple reports third quarter results</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/08/apple-reports-third-quarter-results/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yen223</author><text>&amp;quot;We are happy to report that we had an all-time revenue record in Services during the June quarter, driven by over 1 billion paid subscriptions...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What counts as a subscription? Because 1 billion feels incredibly high to me, like 1 out of 8 human beings has a paid Apple subscription?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;There are more than 1.46 billion active iPhone users worldwide as of 2023.&lt;/i&gt; [1]&lt;p&gt;Given that some people have more than one subscription (e.g. iCloud + Apple TV+), it actually doesn&amp;#x27;t seem that crazy. Especially when the cheapest subscription is only $0.99&amp;#x2F;mo for 50 GB of storage, which a ton of people probably have since it&amp;#x27;s incredibly easy to blow past the free 5 GB tier for your iPhone backup.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.demandsage.com&amp;#x2F;iphone-user-statistics&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.demandsage.com&amp;#x2F;iphone-user-statistics&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple reports third quarter results</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/08/apple-reports-third-quarter-results/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yen223</author><text>&amp;quot;We are happy to report that we had an all-time revenue record in Services during the June quarter, driven by over 1 billion paid subscriptions...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What counts as a subscription? Because 1 billion feels incredibly high to me, like 1 out of 8 human beings has a paid Apple subscription?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eclarkso</author><text>Willing to bet a subscription is a service&amp;#x2F;person pair, not a person.  E.g., a person with iCloud and Apple TV+ is 2 subscriptions, and wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if the Apple One (or whatever the bulk-subscribe thing is called) counts for all the individual services even if you only use say 3 of the 5 (or whatever the right counts are).</text></comment>