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Apple sales update: 220 million iPods, 30 million iPhones
By Charles Starrett
Contributing Editor
Published: Wednesday, September 9, 2009
News Categories: iPhone, iPod
During today’s Rock and Roll media event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed that the company has now sold 30 million iPhones in just over two years. The App Store now offers 75,000 apps, and has seen 1.8 billion apps downloaded—a figure that does not include updates, Jobs disclosed for the first time. iTunes is now in 23 different countries, and is the #1 music retailer in the world, with sales of over 8.5 billion songs. Overall, the iTunes Store has 100,000,000 accounts with credit cards, making it one of the largest stores on the web.
In addition, Apple revealed that it has now sold 220 million iPods to date, including 20 million iPod touch units and 100 million iPod nano units. Based on the latest data, the iPod accounts for 73.8% of the US MP3 market, followed by “other,” Sandisk, and Microsoft, which accounts for 1.1%. Overall, the company said that 50% of iPods sold are bought by new to iPod customers, and that the iPod touch is the company’s fastest growing model.
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Good job APPLE!!! Very Impressive numbers… woow,.. who would have thought that this would happen. I bet that microsoft is p**** that they didn’t seen that product comming ..lol
Posted by Dennis on September 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM (PST)