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