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How Much Are Apple's 45 Million Users Worth?

Good assumption, 4.1 billion mobile phone user, however, Apple store is only available in US, Europe, and well developed countries, total mobile phone user of these areas are less than a billion.

Unless Apple store open up in China, India, Indonesia and other emerging countries where piracy is rampant, 4 billion potential paying users is a huge market.

> but I re-check the link in the article and 4.1 billion is accurate--there
> are approximately 1.2 billion landlines. Sticking with 10% of 410
> million users forecast as Apple's share of the smart phone pie once
> the market reaches maturity.