Before announcing the iPad 2 Wednesday , Apple CEO Steve Jobs consume some time to provide a few numbers and sales digit in some central byplay areas .
iBookstore : client have downloaded more than 100 million e - books from Apple ’s e - Good Book store , which was launched with the original iPad . iBooks has since expanded to all Apple devices run iOS 4 and above .
On Wednesday , Jobs said Random House would fall in Apple ’s iBooks offering , bringing more than 17,000 new title to the store . Earlier this workweek , Random House announced that it would sweep up the government agency poser for e - book sale , which pave the path for Wednesday ’s announcement . Random House had been the last holdout among the six major publishing house to join the iBookstore .
All told , Jobs said , there are now more than 2,500 publishers on the iBookstore .
iPhone : Apple has now sold more than 100 million handset , Jobs announced Wednesday . Interestingly , Apple ’s CEO did n’t cite the recently - launched Verizon iPhone 4 , or supply any elaborate entropy on how many of those gadget were sold .
iPad : In 2010 , Apple sell 15 million iPads in just nine months — more than any other tablet computer ever sold . The iPad generate $ 9.5 billion in receipts for the company , and has gained over 90 percentage of market share .
iTunes and App Store : There are now some 200 million account with credit cards on iTunes — probably the declamatory database of client report in the humanity according to Jobs . The App Store has more 350,000 apps , of which over 65,000 are designed specifically to take advantage of the iPad ’s sophisticated capabilities . Finally , Apple has deal out more than $ 2 billion to developers who sell their apps through the App Store .
