Strategy Analytics: Apple Has Shipped 250M iPhones, Made $150B In Revenues In The Past 5 Years

We know that Apple has been making a killing from the iPhone, with the device reigning as the single-most popular smartphone in a number of markets -- despite Android-based handsets collectively having a bigger lead. Now, with the fifth anniversary of the iPhone fast approaching -- it's June 29 -- Strategy Analytics has calculated just how big that killing is: Apple has shipped 250 million iPhones worldwide, and the iPhone has generated $150 billion in cumulative revenues, it estimates. The figures cover the entire family of iPhone devices -- from the first model released in 2007 through to the most recent iPhone 4S. Of them, Strategy Analytics tells me that the device that has topped the list has been the iPhone 4 -- both in terms of price and volume. However, there is a dark shadow around today's news, too. Strategy Analytics believes that if the first five years were awesome, the next five will be a lot more challenging, for several reasons:

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