Apple CEO Tim Cook came toTuesday ’s media eventarmed with numbers — a stack of them — to demonstrate his company ’s continued dominance . The crowing number ? In themonth since its release , Io 6 has been download to more than 200 million devices .
“ This is phenomenal , ” Cook said . “ This is the fastest software upgrade rate in history , that we ’re aware of . ”
Cook also divulge other unexampled , mostly eye - come out numbers across the range of Apple ’s product lineup :
• Apple sell its 100 one-millionth iPad two weeks ago — just two - and - a - half year after the product launched . “ That ’s unprecedented for a unexampled product in a Modern category , ” Cook said . And the pad seems to be trouncing its contest : The iPad accounts for 90 per centum of all pad - based Internet traffic .
• More than 5 million unit of the iPhone 5 have been sell since its recent launch . “ It ’s the fastest - selling iPhone ever , ” Cook said .
• The latest version iPod nano and iPod tactile sensation , he articulate , have link up the residuum of Apple ’s iPod lineup to betray 3 million unit . “ Sales are work fantastic , ” Cook sound out .
• Meanwhile , drug user of Apple ’s Mac and iOS devices have combine to share 125 million documents in the cloud ; they ’ve also share more than 60 million photos using the unexampled shared picture stream service . And iMessage user are now exchanging 28,000 substance per secondly .
• On the iOS platform , Apple ’s iBooks lotion now has 1.5 million Book available ; more than 400 million Word have been downloaded since the app ’s launch . iBooks textbooks , Cook said , are now used in more than 2,500 classrooms nationwide .
• And the broad App Store now contains 700,000 apps , including 275,000 made specifically for the iPad . Customers have download more than 35 billion apps , and Apple has paid out $ 6.5 billion to app developers .
• The Mac product furrow has done somewhat well , too . Cook said that for the year ending in June , its sales outgrew the PC food market by seven times — the 6th straight class Apple has outperformed the market . The event ? mac are the No . 1 background and laptop computer computers in the United States .
