Apple juggernaut cranks out big, big numbers

Trillions, billions, millions, and so on

By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco, 12th June 2012

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In addition to updating its laptop line; providing more details about its July release of the next OS X, Mountain Lion ($19.99); and unveiling the Google-goading iOS 6, set for a fall debut, Apple also tossed around some interesting – and some very, very big – numbers on Monday morning during the keynote to its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco:

1,500,000,000,000: Push notifications sent to iOS devices so far
150,000,000,000: iOS 5 iMessages sent so far
30,000,000,000: Apps – paid and free – downloaded to date from the iTunes App Store
10,000,000,000: Tweets sent from iOS 5 devices
7,000,000,000: Push notifications sent to iOS devices per day
5,000,000,000: Dollars paid to developers of iOS apps
5,000,000,000: Scores submitted to the Apple Game Center per week
1,000,000,000: iMessages sent per day
400,000,000: Credit card–backed accounts in the iTunes App Store
365,000,000: iOS devices sold through March 31, 2012
140,000,000: iOS 5 iMessage users
130,000,000: Apple Game Center members
100,000,000: Worldwide business listings in iOS 6's homegrown Maps app
5,184,000: Pixels in the "Retina display" of the new high-end MacBook Pro
650,000: Apps now in the iTunes App Store
225,000: Apps specifically designed for the iPad
1,700: New APIs in OS X Mountain Lion
1,000: Miniumum number of Apple engineers attending WWDC
120: Countries currently with access to the the iTunes App Store
103: Minutes it took for this year's Worldwide Developers Conference to sell out
80: Percentage of iOS-device users who have upgraded to iOS 5
60: Countries represented by WWDC attendees
32: Countries that will gain access to the iTunes App Store by the end of this year
23: Years that Apple has held WWDC

We'll add a couple of other numbers that weren't mentioned from the keynote stage: Apple's per-share stock price at the close of trading on Monday: $571.17. The price one year ago: $325.90. ®

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