Steve Jobs. Apple. WWDC. iOS. Mac OS. The numbers.
Submitted by brian s hall on 6 June, 2011 - 15:05
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)
