Random notes from the Apple announcement
Random notes from the Apple announcement
Three things we've come to expect from an Apple music event: a live performance, an iChat videoconference with a celebrity, and a stat- and graphic-filled PowerPoint, er, Keynote presentation by Steve Jobs. Today's Rokr event featured two songs by Kanye West (to a sober audience of journalists and geeks, which also included Yo-Yo Ma), a videoconference with a London-based Madonna, and the following statistics:22 million iPods have been sold worldwide (from the iPod's introduction to the end of June 2005) 6.2 million were sold worldwide in the June 2005 quarter alone 2 million Sony PSPs were sold in the same quarter The iPod franchise has 74 percent of the market share in the United States for all MP3 players There are more than 1,000 accessories for the iPod iPod connectivity as an option was introduced in the Honda, the Acura, the Audi, and the Volkswagen 30 percent of cars in the United States will have an iPod option in 2006 The iPod Mini is the most popular MP3 player in the world (in terms of players sold) The iPod Nano is thinner than a No. 2 pencil It's also 80 percent smaller than the original iPod And 62 percent smaller than the iPod Mini And 69 percent smaller than the Creative Zen Micro And 58 percent smaller than the Creative Zen Neon And 67 percent smaller than the Sony NW-HD5 And 66 percent smaller than the Motorola Razr The iTunes Music Store has sold half a billion songs to date It currently sells 1.8 million songs a day It has an 82 percent market share for downloads in the United States There are iTunes Music Stores in 20 countries There are 7 million podcast subscriptions to date There are 15,000 podcasts in the iTunes directory and a thousand new ones added each week iTunes now has 2 million songs The iTunes Music Store has 10 million accounts The average number of songs downloaded by a user is 60
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