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iPhone Launch: Tim Cook and Scott Forstall set the scene

4 October 2011

MacBook Pro and iMac are the best-selling notebook and desktop in the USA
Mac platform has grown by 23 percent in the past year
60 million Mac users worldwide, but great potential for growth
Over 300 million iPods have been sold. Sony took 30 years to sell 220,000 Walkman
45 million iPods sold in last year
iTunes is number one music store in the world; 16 billion downloads
iPhone sales have grown 125 percent year on year
iPhone leads customer satisfaction at 70 percent; HTC second at 49 percent
iPhone has 5 percent of the word’s mobile phone market
iPad is undisputed world leaders in tablets
92 percent of Fortune 500 companies testing or using iPads
Passed the quarter billion sales mark for iOS devices
iOS now the No.1 operating system, 43 percent compared with Android’s 33 percent
More than 500,000 apps, 140,000 specifically for iPad
18 billion apps downloaded, Apple paid out $3bn to developers