WWDC 2011 Stats: The Best Figures From Apple's Huge Press Conference

Some huge announcements were made at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference Monday, including the new mobile operating system iOS 5, PC software OS X Lion, and the unveiling of the iCloud.

Amid the flash were an equally intriguing set of statistics about how Apple's been doing, with startling insight into the company's success in the mobile market, the growth of its PC sales business, and the strength of its iTunes store.

Check out some of the best figures announced at Apple's WWDC keynote address, and share your thoughts in the comments. Then, view our slideshow of Apple's biggest announcements from Monday.

#1: App store's rank among software retailers
5,200: Number of developers at WWDC 2011
14 billion: Apps downloaded from store in its history
425,000: Apps in the app store
2.5 billion: Amount paid to developers building apps
130 million: Books downloaded iBooks store

225 million: Number of credit card accounts linked to iTunes store
15 billion: Songs sold from iTunes store
18 million: Songs offered in iTunes
#1: Apple's rank among music retailers

25 million: iPads sold in 14 months
90,000: Apps made specifically for the iPad

200 million: iOS devices sold
44 percent: Share of mobile market Apple claims to have
#2: iPhone 4 camera's popularity ranking on Flick
Over 1 billion: Tweets sent per week by iOS users
100 billion: Push notifications sent to iOS devices
66 percent: Amount of mobile browsing done on mobile Safari

54 million: Active Mac users
73 percent: Number of those users with laptops
28 percent: Amount Mac sales rose year-over-year in Apple's last quarter
3-4 million: Macs sold each quarter

$100 per year: Cost of MobileMe
$0: Cost of iCloud
$24.99 per year: Cost of iTunes Match
10: Devices that can be used with iCloud

$130: Usual cost of OS update
$30: Cost of OS X Lion update

Comments

[becky bradshaw]

02:33 PM on 06/08/2011

"The iPhone today is as attractive a product as a Mercedes convertible was 50 years ago. It isn’t just a question of design and ease of use. People who use devices from Apple also demonstrate, consciously or unconsciously, that they have social capital and that they belong to a successful, cosmopolitan, hedonistic elite." (http://www.the-atlantic-times.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=428:apple-slightly-blemished&catid=29:business&Itemid=54)

[moldndecay]

08:09 PM on 06/07/2011

This is a best figure?

3-4 million: Macs sold each quarter

That is laughable. There were ~85 million computers sold last quarter. And Apple sold less then 5% of that market. The iPad is cannibalizing their own laptop sales.

[J242]

09:11 PM on 06/07/2011

Wrong. Apple's laptop division has shown 28% annual growth. Windows based laptops? 5% growth. Windows based Desktops? NEGATIVE 5% growth. Mac desktops? Neutral. iPad growth? Massive. Windows tablet growth? Non existent. Android tablet growth? Non-existent.

Apple is growing faster than the competition in EVERY field but smartphones where Android is beating them in numbers there and in hardware sales only. They are losing in add-on sales, developer payouts, applications submitted, applications approved, peripherals and so very much more. Good for Android. Symbian is still #1 world-wide because just like what Google is trying to do with Android, Nokia already did with Symbian over a decade ago and ported it to every single free after rebate phone they possibly could on the market. You can walk into a 7-11 and buy a Symbian powered "smartphone" for $30 with an included $25 calling card to get started. That doesn't mean it's higher quality, it means they are cheaper and thus more people will spend money on them. Does Wal-mart carry higher quality inventory than Pier 1, Best Buy, a local farmer's market, or really ANY of their competition? No. They win by brute force because tens of millions of neanderthals will buy from them to save a few cents on every item because they get cheap, plastic knockoffs. That's not anything worth bragging about, if anything it's something to be ashamed of...

[Jabali]

09:30 PM on 06/08/2011

Bam!

[theveggiedude]

09:32 PM on 06/07/2011

Apple has 8.5% of the entire PC market (last quarter). They have never competed for the under $1000 category. For PC's over $1000 and up, Apple has a 90% share of that market. And that is why they make the money while the others don't.

[Draekia]

01:37 AM on 06/08/2011

Where do you get your statistics?

Thin air? Cite or it never happened.

[Richard Genco]

06:36 PM on 06/07/2011

Oh boy, what a patriot. Lets see how many more jobs we can create for China. Nobody seems to care about that fact.

[J242]

09:18 PM on 06/07/2011

Everything dealing with iCloud is on American data canters +r0//. Where's your vitriol towards MS for having even their release DVDs manufactured in China or Indonesia as well as their XBoxes, phones, keyboards, mice and joysticks hmmm? PS, all of which combined sell FAR more than Apple's entire hardware lineup. Where your outrage there +r0//?

Oh, and what about all of those Android phones? What about the HP, Sony, Dell, Toshiba, Samsung, Fujitsu and every single other major hardware OEM currently selling electronics in the US? Are they all off the hook even though they actually have ALL of their manufacturing, assembly, support and even their documentation print outs handled by China?

You're a rabid basher which is just as bad if not, in many cases, worse than being a fanboy. Educate yourself before forming your opinions in the future let alone speaking publicly on them.

[Richard Genco]

10:22 PM on 06/07/2011

Maybe you did not know this?? http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread651749/pg1

[Richard Genco]

11:15 PM on 06/07/2011

Also Google and Apple are 2 of the biggest supporters of liberal causes (you know for the little people) yet they do everything to avoid paying what they should pay in taxes.

[JohnTheMac]

07:04 PM on 06/09/2011

"Why don't they build one here? "

They don't want to tie up money in a manufacturing facility. Easier to farm it out to people who specialize in that. So why don't those people build one here?
It's also not so easy, because beyond the immensity of the Foxconn facilities are all the supporting industries nearby. I'm sure outside the Foxconn facility, there are probably all the companies making chips, wiring harnesses, etc. All those would have to be onboard with locating a plant in a major US city. If there's 300,000 workers there, that's a lot of people.
There are only 60 cities with populations that large. Pittsburgh is the smallest of those at 330,000. So that would mean every cop, doctor, and retiree. Everyone in Pittsburg would have to quit what they're doing now for your dream job of assembling phones and music players.

"Take all the tax money they save by avoiding our tax system."

If this is so awful, let's start charging sales tax on all internet purchases to the state they are delivered to. No one should complain. I mean, "avoiding taxes" isn't something internet shoppers care about.

" I thought the big liberals were for the little people and the GOP was for the big people?"

Not even sure where you're going with that comment. You must have had a lengthy conversation in your mind before you wrote this.

[dsa1115]

04:27 PM on 06/07/2011

Hows this stat....Steve Jobs looks like he weighs about 80lbs.

[J242]

09:19 PM on 06/07/2011

He could weigh 10 lbs and probably still easily slap some sense into your thick, rude skull.

[theveggiedude]

03:37 PM on 06/07/2011

They left out one stat from the conference: if you include Android, the browser share of Safari based code browsing the web on mobile is well over 90%.

[ogaraj]

06:07 PM on 06/07/2011

source?

[theveggiedude]

09:33 PM on 06/07/2011

Re-read my message.

[David Landry]

08:54 PM on 06/07/2011

You mean the share of open source Konqueror KHTML browser based code don't you?

If you're going to place ownership based on those guidelines, then you should really place it correctly.

[theveggiedude]

09:36 PM on 06/07/2011

It may have originated there, but no developer confuses Konqueror with Webkit, especially not Google.

[VolsFans]

02:32 PM on 06/07/2011

How about this stat,

1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial. Its worth a look-see. Oozes with irony.

[J242]

03:08 PM on 06/07/2011

Perhaps you should look into the definition of what a "stat" is. A reference to a commercial is not a statistic.

[VolsFans]

04:12 PM on 06/07/2011

Nuh uh, that aint right! Its called a pun, irony, not what it looks like on the outside.
Kiddies these days...shesh

[Kanzi]

01:20 PM on 06/07/2011

Really HuffPo? E3 is ongoing and all that you keep covering is trivia about Apple?

[LightShadow62]

01:11 PM on 06/07/2011

"$24.99 per year: Cost of iTunes Match"

So while the iCloud service is supposedly free, that is only the case if you have purchased ALL of your music from the iTunes store. If you have even one piece of media that Apple didn't make money on it will cost you $25 a year to sync to the iCloud.

[dead WASP]

01:24 PM on 06/07/2011

Yup.

[JudScott]

02:51 PM on 06/07/2011

^ sorry wrong

[beedish]

01:40 PM on 06/07/2011

No. iTunes Match allows the users to upgrade their entire iTunes library to DRM-free, 256kbps, etc. quality files for a one-time fee of $25. Of course, the only applies to music that is in the iTunes library. But this is no way mandatory or necessary to use iCloud. iCloud is exactly what it has said it is; a free, cloud-based back-up/sync server. Whether it remains that way is to be seen.

[LightShadow62]

01:47 PM on 06/07/2011

The "$24.99 per year" is not something I made up, it comes directly from Apple. iCloud will only 'match' your non-iTunes content as long as you continue to pay that $25 a year.

I am glad that you realize the very real possibility that the 'free' part is probably temporary. Much like the "Only $15 a month for the first 6 months" teasers to get people into a program.