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Comment by endisneigh | Hacker News Reader

when's the last time any company has launched a product everyone really uses? for the sake of conversation let's say 2 billion+ for everyone.

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In 2021 there were "only" one billion iPhone users[1]. By the time, Apple was the most valuable company in the world, and it still is today. So I'll say 2B is a very arbitrary and unrealistic number.

[1]: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/27/there-are-1b-ipho...

the parent said "everyone". there are about 5 billion people over 20. 2 billion is quite conservative.

as for your link. iphones are popular, but it's definitely not true that "everyone" has an iphone, which is my point. android has almost 4 billion active users, for comparison.

TikTok is the closest I can think of.

TikTok is probably closest, but I don't think they've hit 2bn yet.

I think 2 billion is an arbitrary number but I'm thinking of Search, Maps, Gmail, Google Docs. All of those are ancient.

Instagram? (launched 12 years ago)

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Not even close to 2B users. Google have probably 10 different products with more than 2B monthly users.

It's very hard to believe. Besides search, Android, Chrome and Gmail are in 2B~4B range. Are there really another 6 products that are ubiquitous as these 3? Google Docs definitely doesn't have 2B monthly users. Some built-in Android apps might be installed on >2B phones, but it doesn't mean they have that many active users.

Google Search, Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Play Store, and YouTube

Also Google Maps, Google Photos and Google Drive have more than 1B users.

The article mentions they have six products with 2 billion users.

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