As the world’s tech media waited for news about the new iPhone on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the opportunity of a captive audience to deliver a long list of favorable Apple stats.
Here’s the rundown of the numbers he revealed during his long windup:
- Apple has six stores in China, bringing Apple’s total to 357 stores in 11 countries.
- More than 6 million copies of Lion have been downloaded since it launched in July. This is 80% more downloads than Snow Leopard.
- Macbook pro and iMac are the best selling noteboook and desktop in the U.S.
- There are 60 million Mac users around the world. Apple has sold 45 million iPods so far this year (ending in June).
- iPod marketshare in the U.S. is above 70%.
- iTunes users have downloaded more than 16 billion songs.
- iPhone has 5% of the Worldwide Mobile Phone market.
- More than half of all iPhones that have been sold were iPhone 4s.
- Apple has sold more than 250 million iOS devices.
- There are 500,000 apps in the app store, 140,000 of them are iPad apps.
- 1 billion apps are downloaded every month.18 billion apps have been download in the past three years.
- Apple has paid $3 billion to developers (while keeping 30% of revenue on their apps).
Tim Cook takes the stage
Tim Cook takes the stage
Live bloggers at the Apple event
iPod sales
iPod sales
iPhone sales
iPad’s impact on education
iPad stats
Scott Forstall talks iOS
Scott Forstall talks app downloads
Scott Forstall introduces Apple Cards
Scott Forstall introduces Apple Cards
Scott Forstall talks iOS 5
Eddy Cue talks camera updates
Eddy Cue talks location sharing
Eddy Cue talks iTunes
Eddy Cue on app updates
Philip Schiller introduces new gen iPods
iPod nano as a watch
iPod nano customizable watch face
iPod nano
iPod nano
iPod nano
iPod nano
iPod touch, nano, shuffle
iPhone 4S
A5 chip
iPhone 4S plays Infinity Blade
iPhone 4S plays Infinity Blade
iPhone 4S plays Infinity Blade
iPhone 4 & 4S data speed comparison
iPhone 4S data speed market comparison
iPhone 4’s impact on photography
iPhone 4S megapixel sensor
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Abdul Rahman Alieh 