Apple had plenty to announces yesterday at its World Wide Developers Conference in SFO. The announcements started with the updates to OS X i.e. Lion (on the same lines as they announced before) and then it moved on to the upcoming release of iPhone OS aka iOS 5 and the all new cloud service from Cupertino called iCloud.
We have been hearing iCloud rumors for long and a number of possible iOS 5 features were already out as obvious. While you would keep hearing from us about iOS and Mac OS updates, Apple gave out some figures on iOS and its performance at the event. Compare this with what Google announced for Android at IO, we have some pretty interesting comparison.
Apple pegs the number of iOS devices at 200 million, double the amount of Android activations Google announced i.e. 100 million. Similarly the number of apps available on Android market was announced as 150,000 and Apple proudly states 424,000 apps on the App Store, 90,000 for the iPad! Google announced 4.5 billion app downloads and Apple replies with 14 billion app downloads (let aside the ratio of Free / Paid apps on both these market place).
Apple went on to announce
- 130 million books downloaded form its iBookstore
- iOS market-share at 44% compared to 28% with Android
- $2.5 billion paid to developers for app sales
- 225 million accounts
- 50 million Game Center users / 100,000 Games
Apple’s ecosystem is surely growing every year and we just cant ignore the lead it has on tablets. For mobile, Android is closing in and has lots of manufacturers backing it. But in the tablets race Honeycomb is left out without any great apps. Apple has sold over 25 million iPads since last year and the number is growing rapidly.