Re Apple buying Beats: despite being its largest acquisition, Apple is only spending two weeks profits to acquire Beats. #pocketchange

Lots of companies invent things and lots sell branded things in volume, but rare to do both in the same firm.

yes, I think Gillette is also in the club. good one.

My thinking is that the 100 million volume mark is a very high bar to clear in any industry, even with low priced products.

Someone just tweeted Kleenex — another good non-tech example.

Presumably there are lots of food products (e.g., Coke probably sells more than 100m in a month).

Hah! I accept McDonalds as meeting the criteria!

But I think Nokia is in the club despite the many models.

Nokia is on the edge — they easily passed the 100 million units shipped, but those were spread out over many Nokia mobile phone types.

Whoops, left off Microsoft (MS Office)