Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/12/wwdc_numbers/
Apple juggernaut cranks out big, big numbers
Trillions, billions, millions, and so on
Posted in Business, 12th June 2012 00:33 GMT
Watch Now : Virtual Machine Movement with Hyper-V
In addition to updating its laptop line [1]; providing more details [2] about its July release of the next OS X, Mountain Lion ($19.99); and unveiling the Google-goading iOS 6 [3], 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 [4]) 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. ®