According to Horace Dediu Asymco.com blogger and Apple analyst, Apple sold more iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads in the last 12 months than it has sold Macs in the entire company’s history.
That’s right, in 2011, Apple sold 156 million iOS devices, while the company has only ever sold 122 million Macs. Just how much does Apple’s mobile industry dominate its computer industry? Well, in the last several years, the company has sold a cumulative total of 316 million iOS devices, which is more than double its total Mac sales.
Impressively, 2011 accounted for more than half of Apple’s total sales since 2007, when iOS was first released. The iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 had a major impact on people’s willingness to adopt mobile devices.
The lead iOS device is the iPhone, which will reach 200 units sold during the first quarter of this year. During the holiday season last year, Apple managed to sell 37 million iPhones after the launch of the iPhone 4S.

In the last two years, though, Apple has sold a staggering 55 million iPads. Earlier this week, at the Goldman Sach’s conference, Tim Cook mentioned that iPad sales had exceeded his expectations. He had this to say:
To put it in context, it took us 22 years to sell 55 million Macs. It took us about five years to sell 22 million iPods, and it took us about three years to sell that many iPhones. And so, this thing is… on a trajectory that’s off the charts.
I’d never thought of the iPad in those terms, but it’s true that the device has exploded in popularity since its release. It’s incredible how many people own an iPad, and that number is only expected to climb as Apple prepares to launch its most powerful iPad yet on March 7th.