Some noteworthy numbers picked up today from Apple while watching the 2013 WWDC livestream…
WWDC 2013 By the Numbers
- 26th annual WWDC – the longest running devcon to date (they think)
- 1 million daily visitors to Apple retail outlets
- millions come for personal training
- 407 stores in 14 countries
- App store celebrates 5th birthday in July, 2013
- Users have Downloaded over 50,000.000.000 (billion) apps
- 900,000 apps
- 375,000 ipad apps
- 575,000,000 accounts
- Developers paid $10 billion
- over 5 bill last year.. over 3X more than all other platforms combined
- Mac install base is 72 million
- #1 desktop and notebook in the US
- Mac 5 year annual growth rate is soaring and up 100%
- OS10 – Mountain Lion is the latest and best selling release of all time
- 35% of Mac users are on Mountain Lion whereas Win 8 boasts 5% use
- The latest R of OS X is the 9th of the big cat releases in the past decade
- New naming will see OSX releases themed on California – enter OS X Mavericks – boasts responsiveness, speed, and features for the power users
- Chrome uses 16x more memory than Safari
- 3D maps and flyover data in the new maps see https://developer.apple.com/
- New 11″ macbook air gets 9hrs of battery life
- New 13″ goes from 7 to 12 hrs or battery life
- iCloud has enabled the sending of 7 trillion messages!
- wow moment – keynote 3D animations over iCloud…
- Enter iOS 7
- over 600 million devices sold
- iPhone users use their device 50% more than Android users use theirs
- iOS accounts for 60% mobile web market share
- iPad accounts for 82% tablet marketshare
- iOS accounted for 18.7% black Friday sales
- iPhone #1 smartphone in customer satisfaction 9 times (JD Power) with 97% customer satisfaction
- iOS users considered 73% “very satisfied” whereas Android is 49%
- 93% iOS users have the latest version of iOS
- more than 1/3 Android users are still using an OS from 2010
- iOS 6 is the World’s most popular OS
- Today Apple unveils the latest OS – Enter iOS 7
See more at https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/
