O IMPÉRIO APPLE

Aquando da apresentação do iPhone 4S, Tim Cook, o novo CEO da Apple, avançou estes dados que mostram, claramente, qual a posição da empresa no mundo digital:

• Apple currently has 357 retail stores in 11 countries.
• More than six million copies of OS X Lion have been downloaded through the Mac App Store.
• That’s 80 percent more than Snow Leopard.
• It took Lion two weeks to reach 10 percent of its user base. It took Windows 7 20 weeks to do the same.
• The Mac is the number one best-selling desktop and notebook in the United States; it’s approaching 60 million users around the world, and its growth has outpaced the PC market every single quarter for the past 5 years.
• The iPod, which launched 10 years ago, is still the number one music player in the world.
• Apple has sold more than 300 million iPods to date. It took Sony 30 years to sell 220,000 Walkman cassette players. (Note: it seems Apple is a bit off on the Sony portion of this metric)
• The company sold 45 million iPods last year alone, and almost half of purchasers bought for the first time.
• iTunes is the number one music store in the world.
• There are now 20 million songs in iTunes; over 16 billion songs have been downloaded from it to date.
• The iPhone is the number one smartphone in the world.
• 93 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are deploying or testing the iPhone.
• The iPhone is number one in customer satisfaction.
• J.D. Power has ranked it as the number one smartphone six times in a row.
• Almost 1,000 K-12 schools have a 1:1 iPad deployment program.
• More than 80 percent of hospitals in the U.S. are testing iPads.
• 92 percent of the Fortune 500 are testing or deploying the iPad.
• The iPad is the number one tablet in the world.
• Three out of four tablets sold in the U.S. are iPads.
• There have been 250 million iOS devices sold so far.
• There are more than 500,000 apps in the App Store. More than 140,000 are designed specifically for the iPad.
• Customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps to date.
• There are about 1 billion apps downloaded per month.
• Apple has paid out $3 billion dollars to developers so far.
• The iPod touch is the number one portable game player.
• By December, the iPhone will be in more than 70 countries on more than 100 carriers.
• [via allthingsd]