Chormecast overtook Apple TV sales volume for the year

According to research analyst firm Parks Associated, Chromecast Roku and became the best selling devices strimingovyh last year. 

Apple TV takes the third place. 

According to Parks, sales Chromecast, entered the market in the middle of 2013th in the United States totaled 3.8 million, which is approximately equal to the volume of Roku for the entire year. Development Apple almost 1.5 times behind the competitors.

However, outside their homeland gadgets showed more impressive results: the total volume of sales of Apple TV was 20 million since the advent of commercially available in 2007. Roku, entered the market a year later, the company was able to realize in the amount of 8 million units. 

The reason for this difference is most likely that the Roku is only available in the U.S., Canada, Ireland and the UK, while the geography of sales Apple TV has dozens of countries. Chromecast spreading rapidly into international markets and is sold today already in the 19 regions.