eBay sold over $2 billion in Apple products last year in the U.S. alone

While Apple just announced its second quarter numbers, there’s another economy — and not a shadow economy, either — involving Macintosh and iOS products that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company doesn’treport: Resales of older Macs, iPhones and iPads. And that other economy isn’t small. Nearly $2 billion worth of Apple devices — Macs, iPhones, iPads and iPods — were sold on eBay over the past 12 months in the U.S. alone, according to Apple. Data mined from eBay’s analytics platform and provided to Computerworld by eBay showed that, as with Apple’s own sales, the iPhone dominates and the Mac and iPad bicker over second place. In Apple’s universe, the iPhone accounted for a majority of sales for the seventh straight quarter: 53% of Apple’s $37.4 billion in revenue came from new iPhones. The other two lines split most of the rest. The iPad accounted for 16% of all revenue, while Mac sales represented a relatively robust 15% of the total, up from 12% the quarter before. The iPod — yes, people still buy iPods — accounted for just 1% of Apple’s sales, nearly a rounding error.