Apple by the numbers: 84M iPads, 400M iOS devices, 350M iPods sold
Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off today's event by tossing out a lot of milestones.Below are some of the key numbers, and go here for CNET's full coverage. Mountain Lion upgrades. 7 million since release.MacBook together with MacBook Air. Number 1 in market share for last three months.iPad Sales. Cook notes 17 million sold from April to June, with 84 million sold through June. Says iPads are in 94 percent of Fortune 500 companies.Worldwide tablet market share. 68 percent for April through June.Apple marketing chief Phil SchillerCNETiPad Apps. 250,000 downloaded.iOS devices. 400 million sold through June.Here are some details on the iPhone 5, offered by marketing chief Phil Schiller: Thinnest iPhone yet. 7.6mm thick, 18 percent thinner than iPhone 4.20% lighter than 4S. Schiller said iPhone 5 weighs 112 grams.Bigger screen. Measures 4 inches, and offers 44% more color saturation than iPhone 4S; 16:9 aspect ratio. Widescreen videos look far better, says Schiller.New chip, the A6. About twice as fast the A5; twice as fast for graphics.Improved camera. 8-megapixel sensor, 3264x2448 resolution with backside illumination, hybrid IR filter, five-element lens, f2.4 aperture. Better battery life. The claims: 8 hours of 3G talk time, 3G browsing; 8 hours LTE browsing; 10 hours for Wi-Fi browsing; 10 hours video; 40 hours music; 225 hours while on standby.iPhone 5 pricing. They'll cost same as iPhone 4S did:$199 for a 16GB version, $299 for a 32GB version, $399 for a 64GB version, all with a two-year contract.Eddy Cue, Apple's iCloud and music chiefCNETHere are some details about iTunes, iCloud and iPods: iTunes store stats. Store has 26M songs, with more than 20 billion songs purchased over the last nine years, according to Eddy Cue, Apple's iCloud and music chief. The iTunes store is now available in 63 countries.Downloads from iOS devices.66 percent of all downloads from iTunes come from iPhones and iPads.iTunes accounts with 1-click purchasing. 435 million.iTunes customers using iCloud. 200 million, and Cue says there have been 15 billion downloads from iCloud.350 million iPods. Total number sold.Apple's new iPod lineup.CNETThinner iPod Nano, 7th generation. It's 5.4mm thick, 38 percent percent thinner than the 6th generation. Display is 2-inch, multi-touch.iPod Touch, 5th generationIt's 5. 6.1 mm thick, and 88 grams -- the thinnest and lightest iPod touch yet, says Greg Joswiak, vice president of iPod and iPhone product marketing. It will also have a 4-inch screen. The 5 arrives CNET's iPhone 5 reviewApple out to prove it's still kingPictures: Apple's big iPhone 5 revealHo-hum. iPhone 5 won't wow anyoneiPhone 5: No Steve Jobs, no sizzleiPhone 5: What we didn't getComparing the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S3 vs. Lumia 920Poll: Will you buy the iPhone 5?Apple springs leak - rumors were rightAn awful dock-connector changeApple shares up, down, then upStart your iOS 6 downloads September 19 iOS 6 hits major marksApple reworks, simplifies iTunesNew iPod Touch: Siri and a 4-inch screenNew Nano: Remembering the iPod MiniFull coverage: The iPhone 5 arrives iPod Touch apps. There are 175,000 games and apps for the device.Faster performance for iPod Touch. Will have A5 chip, which Joswiak says is 7 times faster than the previous model when it comes to graphics.Battery life for iPod Touch. Joswiak says new Touch gets 40 hours of music, 8 hours of video.Improved iPod Touch camera. Includes a flash, 5 megapixels with backside illumination, hybrid IR filter, five-element lens, f/2.4 aperture with auto-focus.Video specs for iPod Touch. Shoots 1080p video, front camera does FaceTime HD with 720p.Prices of iPod Touches. 32GB is $299, 64GB is $399.Prices for Shuffle and iPod nano. 2GB shuffle is $49, 16GB is $149.New headsets, called EarPods.600 million of the old ear buds have been sold, and now Apple is upgrading to EarPods, which will come with iPhone 5, new iPod Touches and Nano.
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iPhone 5 prototypes reportedly reveal NFC support
iPhone 5 prototypes reportedly reveal NFC support
The next iPhone could let users buy products and share files through near field communication.Code pulled from Pre-EVT (Engineering Verification Testing) iPhone 5,1 and iPhone 5,2 prototypes by 9to5Mac leads the Apple enthusiast site to believe that NFC chips and an antenna will be built into this year's iPhone.If true, it means Apple would finally jump onto the mobile payments bandwagon, allowing its users to purchase goods and services directly through their smartphones. This latest rumor also comes on top of the company's launch of Passbook, a feature slated for iOS 6 that would let people store electronic versions of receipts, tickets, boarding passes, and other information from merchants.On its own, Passbook doesn't necessarily need to depend on NFC since it serves more as a repository. But Jim Peters, chief technology officer of air transport technology company SITA, believes Apple will incorporate NFC into Passbook, maybe not at first but certainly down the road."There is a lot of debate that NFC will never take off because of all the arguments," Peters told 9to5Mac. "But you need to get ready, this is coming. This is going to happen. By the end of the year the majority of smartphones that you go and buy will have NFC on them. If in October the next iPhone comes out and it has NFC on it, it's game over."Apple could also hook up with an existing mobile payment service like CitiBank's PayPass or even handle payments on its own through all the credit cards already stored through iTunes, suggests 9to5Mac.NFC has been touted for its ability to enable mobile payments merely by swiping your smartphone past a merchant's NFC-equipped reader. But the technology potentially offers much more. iPhone owners would be able to swap and share files between different devices, reducing the need to synchronize through iTunes.Related storiesiPhone 5 rumor roundupApple demos Passbook, a ticket, coupon organizer for iOS 6iOS 6 Passbook vs. Google WalletMasterCard jumps into mobile payments with own digital walletApple has reportedly been working on NFC integration for a while.A New York Times story from March 2011 confirmed that a future iPhone would include the NFC hardware. Some rumors at the time speculated that last year's iPhone would be NFC-enabled, but obviously those rumors missed the mark.NFC is still struggling to move beyond its first baby steps. Google has already been playing in this sandbox. Certain Android phones come equipped with the NFC hardware, and the search giant has been pushing its Google Wallet service. So the time seems ripe for Apple to finally enter this nascent market, a development that could give NFC the push it needs to enter the mainstream.
The next iPhone could let users buy products and share files through near field communication.Code pulled from Pre-EVT (Engineering Verification Testing) iPhone 5,1 and iPhone 5,2 prototypes by 9to5Mac leads the Apple enthusiast site to believe that NFC chips and an antenna will be built into this year's iPhone.If true, it means Apple would finally jump onto the mobile payments bandwagon, allowing its users to purchase goods and services directly through their smartphones. This latest rumor also comes on top of the company's launch of Passbook, a feature slated for iOS 6 that would let people store electronic versions of receipts, tickets, boarding passes, and other information from merchants.On its own, Passbook doesn't necessarily need to depend on NFC since it serves more as a repository. But Jim Peters, chief technology officer of air transport technology company SITA, believes Apple will incorporate NFC into Passbook, maybe not at first but certainly down the road."There is a lot of debate that NFC will never take off because of all the arguments," Peters told 9to5Mac. "But you need to get ready, this is coming. This is going to happen. By the end of the year the majority of smartphones that you go and buy will have NFC on them. If in October the next iPhone comes out and it has NFC on it, it's game over."Apple could also hook up with an existing mobile payment service like CitiBank's PayPass or even handle payments on its own through all the credit cards already stored through iTunes, suggests 9to5Mac.NFC has been touted for its ability to enable mobile payments merely by swiping your smartphone past a merchant's NFC-equipped reader. But the technology potentially offers much more. iPhone owners would be able to swap and share files between different devices, reducing the need to synchronize through iTunes.Related storiesiPhone 5 rumor roundupApple demos Passbook, a ticket, coupon organizer for iOS 6iOS 6 Passbook vs. Google WalletMasterCard jumps into mobile payments with own digital walletApple has reportedly been working on NFC integration for a while.A New York Times story from March 2011 confirmed that a future iPhone would include the NFC hardware. Some rumors at the time speculated that last year's iPhone would be NFC-enabled, but obviously those rumors missed the mark.NFC is still struggling to move beyond its first baby steps. Google has already been playing in this sandbox. Certain Android phones come equipped with the NFC hardware, and the search giant has been pushing its Google Wallet service. So the time seems ripe for Apple to finally enter this nascent market, a development that could give NFC the push it needs to enter the mainstream.
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