The iPhone makes more money than every Microsoft product put together

You all must have heard something or the other about the mini iPad, and also the physical Apple television set rumors! And let’s not forget the Samsung and Apple controversies as well. It seems that the iPhone isn’t going to leave the limelight anytime soon and there’s a lot of hype a lot of talk as there’s a lot of speculation going around. This certainly works in the interest of Apple as this kind of interest really hypes up things and makes people really yearn for the next generation iPhone.

Now Apple doesn’t just make the iPhone, they have a variety of iDevices and their beloved Macs have a cult following of their own. But what may really jump out and surprise you is the fact that iPhone alone generates a higher sales than the total of all Microsoft’s products and services!

Now if that was said in relation to some other company it would have been believable, but this is Microsoft we are talking about! A company that has been around for decades! They have their MS Office, their operating system, mobile phone OS, their Xbox, and they have their own search engine as well! This news is not from any third party or an unreliable source, in fact the source for this story is Forbes. And they made this comparison keeping in mind all of Microsoft’s products that have been made since 1975!
The following is an excerpt from their article:

“One Apple product, something that didn’t exist five years ago, has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer. More than Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing, Windows Phone, and every other product that Microsoft has created since 1975. In the quarter ended March 31, 2012, iPhone had sales of $22.7 billion; Microsoft Corporation, $17.4 billion. ”

This seems quite hard to digest but the figures are out there. In the first financial quarter of 2012, iPhone shipped units to bring sales revenue of $22.7 billion, while Microsoft brought in $17.4 billion. However, do keep in mind that the iPhone is one product that costs a good deal of money, whereas Microsoft has multiple products and some are cheap while others are expensive, but still, the iPhones sales being more than Microsoft’s total revenue is somewhat appalling! What are your thoughts?