The iPhone That Outsold Every Other iPhone - How One Phone Sold 222 Million Units

222 million. That's how many iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units Apple sold — more than the population of Brazil, and still the best-selling iPhone ever made, twelve years later. It bent in pockets, it got Apple sued, and it decided what a phone looks like to this day. This is the full story: the 4-inch problem Steve Jobs refused to fix, the September 2014 reveal, every spec inside it, Apple Pay, the record-breaking numbers, Bendgate, the five reasons it sold like nothing before or since — and the number at the end that's bigger than the one at the start. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 222,000,000 0:40 Chapter 1 — The problem (2013) 1:13 Chapter 2 — The reveal 1:53 Chapter 3 — Anatomy: every spec 3:11 Chapter 4 — Apple Pay & iOS 8 3:49 Chapter 5 — The numbers 4:32 Chapter 6 — Bendgate 5:21 Chapter 7 — Five reasons it sold 222M 6:35 Chapter 8 — vs. every other iPhone 7:13 Chapter 9 — Legacy 7:51 The bigger number 📱 IPHONE 6 / 6 PLUS SPECS (2014) • 4.7-inch 1334×750 (326 ppi) / 5.5-inch 1920×1080 (401 ppi) Retina HD • A8 chip (64-bit, 20 nm) + M8 motion coprocessor with barometer • 8 MP iSight with Focus Pixels, 1080p60, 240 fps slo-mo, OIS on Plus • Touch ID, NFC (Apple Pay), 20 LTE bands, Wi-Fi ac, 1 GB RAM • 16 / 64 / 128 GB · Space Gray, Silver, Gold · 129 g / 172 g · 6.9 mm / 7.1 mm • $199 on contract / $649 unlocked (Plus +$100) 📈 THE NUMBERS • 4M pre-orders in 24 hours · 10M sold in the first weekend • 74.5M iPhones and $18B profit in Q1 2015 — the largest quarterly profit of any company at the time • ~222M units lifetime (industry estimates) Did you own an iPhone 6? Which color — and did it bend? Tell me in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe — next: the phone that almost killed Apple. 🖼️ Device renders via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA) — credits on screen. #iPhone6 #iPhone #Apple #Bendgate #AppleHistory #TechHistory #BestSellingPhone #iPhoneHistory #TimCook #JonyIve