the smartphone wars...people. platforms. analysis.

Steve Jobs. Apple. WWDC. iOS. Mac OS. The numbers.

The smartphone is the ecosystem

Review, critique, analysis and I-told-you-so to follow.

But to start, numbers from the opening of WWDC as compiled across the Internet:

MAC:

  • 54 million Mac users
  • 28% year-over-year Mac sales growth (vs -1% PC sales growth)
  • Mac OS X Lion (4GB download) for $29.99 (available July) (remind me again who the low-cost leader in global software is)
  • Mac OS X Lion to include 250+ new features (good 'top 10' list at TechCrunch)
  • For the past 5 years, Mac growth has outpaced PC growth every quarter
  • 3,000 new APIs promised for Mac OS X Lion
  • Mac App Store is the #1 channel for Mac retail software purchases
  • The Pixelmator app earned $1 million in its first 20 days on the Mac App Store ($30 per sale)

iOS:

  • 200 million iOS devices sold (iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone)
  • iOS is the #1 mobile operating system in the world (this can be disputed but Apple made the claim)
  • 25 million iPads sold
  • iOS 5 includes single sign-on to Twitter (and across Twitter connected sites, apps and services via Twitter oAuth)
  • Newstand magazine app for iPad (with update and downloading in the background)
  • 200 iPhone (and iPad) carriers, up from 186 at the end of the March 2011 quarter
  • 200 new features and 1,500 new developer APIs for iOS 5

iTunes/App Store ecosystem:

  • 225 million iTunes customers (with credit cards on file) (fear the Sony hackers!)
  • 15 *billion* songs sold from the iTunes Store
  • iTunes is the largest music retailer in the world
  • 130 million books downloaded from iBookstore
  • 14 billion apps downloaded (in three years)
  • 425,000 apps in the App Store
  • $2.5 billion paid to iOS app developers
  • $24.99 annual fee for iMatch which will enable subscribers to have their own ripped songs upgraded to 256kbps AAC format and streamed to their iOS devices
  • 50 million Game Center users (signees)