Numbers game: 75M Mac OS X users, 1M SDK downloads, 50,000 apps
As with most keynote presentations, Apple released a lot of numbers about just how many people are adopting the Mac and iPhone platforms.
First, over the last three years, the active Mac OS X installed base has grown from 25 million users to 75 million users. This is great news for the platform and for the entire Mac ecosystem.
Also, over 5,200 developers from 54 countries around the world are attending WWDC. Over a million people have downloaded the free iPhone SDK, and created 50,000 applications for Apple iPhones and iPod touch devices.
Speaking of which, over 40 million iPhones and iPod touches have been sold to date. In April, Apple announced that those users had downloaded a cumulative total of one billion applications.
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As with most keynote presentations, Apple released a lot of numbers about just how many people are adopting the Mac and iPhone platforms....
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Just to be clear here, Apple's numbers are talking about "OS X", not "Mac OS X" as referenced in your article. Apple uses "Mac" to mean the desktop/computer variant and "OS X" to be for its derivatives, such as the iPhone and Apple TV OSes. I hate to nitpick here but you won't find "Mac" anywhere in those slides.
June 08 2009 at 3:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou're absolutely right! The article is wrong.
Watching the keynote, it clearly referenced 'OS X', including the iPhone OS as well as Mac OS.
Did I hear correctly that AT&T will NOT offer MMS or Teathering?
How soon can we drop AT&T??
ya-no tethering or mms for at&t. at&t should have been ahead of the game for this. if apple is implementing services that att will have to adjust for, shouldnt att have a heads up? i mean 3.0/mms was shown awhile ago, that should have been enough time for them to do something.
June 08 2009 at 3:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJust to be clear AT&T is saying that they will support tethering, but no time frame as of when. Also, MMS "later this summer" with AT&T.
I'm not defending them - it sucks. Just wanted to make sure people understood it wasn't just "not supported". I'm pretty upset it won't be offered as soon as 3.0 comes out. Not to mention at least MMS should have been offered at the original launch, probly even tethering.
Since the Palm Pre has a flash player doesn't that mean it has access to millions upon millions of apps?
June 08 2009 at 3:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe Pre does NOT have Flash capability.
June 08 2009 at 3:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyis it just me, or was WWDC kind of lame?
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