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Numbers game: 75M Mac OS X users, 1M SDK downloads, 50,000 apps

by Robert Palmer (RSS feed) on Jun 8th, 2009

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.

Tags: apps, iphone, keynote, market research, MarketResearch, numbers, statistics, wwdc

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple Financial

Analyst roundup: 5m iPhones for Q4, gloomy Christmas ahead

by Robert Palmer (RSS feed) on Sep 22nd, 2008

Widely-read Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is revising his prior estimate for the quarter ending a week from Tuesday, and his outlook is even rosier than before.

Instead of 4.1 million iPhone 3Gs, Munster expects Apple will sell 5 million of the handsets. Likewise, he's revising his estimates for Mac sales up by 300,000 units, and iPod sales up by 200,000 units.

If he's right, it will mean Apple will have sold 7.4 million iPhones so far this year. That puts Apple well on track to meet its own prediction of selling 10 million handsets for calendar year 2008.

On the other hand, we have Morgan Stanley, who cut price targets for nine hardware companies, including Apple. Morgan cited a "fragile consumer," slower overall spending, and a stronger dollar (the last of which impacts sales abroad for U.S. companies).

This comes after a weak August for Mac sales, which -- in context -- only means that Apple's numbers didn't grow quite as fast as they did in prior months. They still sold 23 percent more Mac units than August 2007, but that was sharply lower than July 2008's 43 percent increase over July 2007.

[Via Fortune, Silicon Alley Insider, and 24/7 Wall St.]

Thanks, Robert!

Tags: alleyinsider, fortune, market research, MarketResearch, morgan stanley, MorganStanley, munster, statistics

Filed under: Humor, iPod Family

College students: iPods better than beer

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Jun 8th, 2006

Kids these days. When I was a college man, my pals and I spent many an evening tying one on getting to know the locals socializing. According to Student Monitor, which conducts market research of student life, the iPod was rated as being more of an "in" thing than beer when the company recently polled 1,200 students. Granted, it was a close call (the iPod nabbed a rating of 73% while beer brought in 71%), but still, I was quite surprised. I love my iPod and all, but I'm not going to turn down a (properly poured) Guinness.

What's your take, students: Your brew or your iPod?

[Via Blogging Stocks]

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

Tags: beer, college life, CollegeLife, ipod, market research, MarketResearch, student monitor, StudentMonitor

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