Apple: iOS Device Sales Hit 200 Million Mark
During the WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2011, Apple has unveiled some impressive statistics for its iOS powered products – more than 200 million iOS devices, including iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, have been sold across the world to date.
Taking the stage at the event, Apple's senior vice president Scott Forstall announced the sales figures while touting the brand-new iOS 5. Of those 200 million units shipped, 25 million were from the iPad tablets, which went into sales about 14 months ago. As for iPhone and iPod Touch, the sales figures were not revealed. According to Forstall, the company now owns 44 percent of the market in terms of installed base, way ahead of the likes of Google's Android OS, which accounts for 28 percent, and Research in Motion's BlackBerry OS, which holds 19 percent.
The company also revealed some of its app-related accomplishments. As of May this year, 130 million books were downloaded via the iBookstore, 15 billion songs were sold via the iTunes music store, and over 14 billion apps were distributed from the App Store. Launched three years ago, the App Store now has up to 425,000 apps available for downloads, with 90,000 apps of which made specifically for the iPad.
In addition, Apple said it has aggregated 225 million iTunes accounts with credit cards, and has paid out more than $2.5 billion to iOS developers thus far.
In other related news, the company has whipped the black sheet off its next-generation iOS 5 at the conference. The revamped software will bring over 200 new features to iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad, iPod touch (4th generation) and iPod touch (3rd generation) users. Scheduled for release this fall, it will likely boost the performance of the iOS based devices further.
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