This is the 24th year for Apple’s World Wide Developers confernce. In keynote’s opening remarks, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that there were attendees from 66 countries, and 64% of attendees were there for the first time. There are 100 sessions and 120 hands-on labs with 1000 Apple engineers.
Apple has 6 million registered developers with 1.5 million joining in the last year. This year’s WWDC tickets sold out in 71 seconds. Apple keeps stressing that Moscone West is the biggest venue they can find. The company will be posting session online each day.
Apple is seeing 1 Million visitors each day across their 407 retail stores in 14 countries.
In regards to the company’s digital offerings, the App Store will turn five years old next month. There have been 50 billion apps downloaded, over 900,000 iOS apps, 93% of which are downloaded each month. Some 375,000 are designed strictly for the iPad.
Apple’s digital stores have 575,000,000 accounts- this is more than any other internet store. Â Developers are seeing the benefits as well, with Apple paying out $10 billion to them, $5 billion of which was in the past year.
As for the Mac, there is a 72 million installed base, the iMac being the #1 desktop in the U.S. and the MacBook being the #1 notebook in the U.S. The Mac as a whole has seen a 15% 5-year annual growth rate, compared to the 3% growth seen in the rest of the PC industry.
When Mountain Lion launched last year, it shipped 28 million copies, with 35% of Mac users on Mountain Lion. Compare this to 8% of Windows users on Windows 8.
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