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Millions and Billions: Apple’s Music Event by the Numbers

in News on September 2, 2010 at 3:06 am PT

Apple events are typically heavy on metrics, and yesterday’s affair was no exception. In fact, it was more abundant with the stats than most I’ve seen, with CEO Steve Jobs trotting out quite an array of big milestone numbers with which to mark the company’s achievements. After the jump, a list of most of them.

Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin: We’re Building a Nexus One for Enterprise

in Mobile on January 8, 2010 at 5:06 pm PT

In an All Things Digital event at CES 2010, Andy Rubin talked with Walt Mossberg about the mobile space, Nexus One customer service issues, and Google’s vision for the way phones should be bought and sold.
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In Odd Coincidence, App Store Hits Three Billion Downloads Milestone on GPhone Day

in Mobile on January 5, 2010 at 5:46 am PT

Apple’s iTunes App Store has hit another milestone: More than three billion applications downloaded. Impressive, considering it has been a little over three months since the App Store crossed the two-billion-downloads mark.
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iPhone Claims 32 Percent of Handset Industry Operating Profits

in News on August 4, 2009 at 3:01 pm PT

Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi estimates that Apple, though it is only the fifth-largest handset vendor, claimed nearly a third of handset industry profits in the first half of 2009.
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