Since hitting the market in December 2016 (they were officially introduced a few months earlier), AirPods have become a major source of income for Apple in addition to being the best-selling wireless headphones in the world, with almost half the market share.
The second generation of AirPods, with a wireless charging case, along with the new AirPods Pro with an active noise cancellation system, they are selling like churros and before the end of the year they will exceed 4.000 million dollars in revenue in the last quarter.
Asymco has published a report in which they analyze the possible quarterly revenues of Apple within the category of wearables and where we can see how Apple's AirPods they have become an important source of income.
While Apple Watch sales exceeded $ 4.000 billion, during the last quarter of 2018, now it's the turn of the AirPods. It should be remembered that Apple AirPods are available in three versions: with and without wireless charging in the case and AirPods Pro.
Asymco says that it is difficult to know exactly what the income of any product is by individual categories within the wearables section, since Apple does not break down these figures, but estimating the sales figures of the Apple Watch they have been able to arrive at these data.
Based on these figures, Apple's AirPods could exceed the peak of iPod income $ 4.000 billion in one quarter. According to this company, sales of both AirPods and Apple Watch in the coming years will increase by 50%.
Bloomberg claimed last month that Apple was doubling the production of AirPods and AirPods Pro, due to the demand that both models are having in the market since their launch, especially now that Christmas shopping is approaching.