Scott Forstall Talks iOS Numbers: Quarter Billion Devices Sold and iPad is Number One [Let’s Talk iPhone]

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Scott Forstall took the stage at Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event to talk about iOS 5 numbers. Following Tim Cook’s talk about Apple’s numbers for its main platforms, Forstall gave some specifics about how iOS 5 is faring in the mobile space.

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  • iOS accounts for 61% of the mobile market.
  • There are 500k apps on the App Store.
  • There are 140K iPad apps on the App Store.
  • 18 billion apps have been downloaded in 3 years. (1 billion per month.)
  • Apple has paid out over $3 billion to developers.
  • iOS 5 betas have been seeded to 100k developers.
  • 67 million people use GameCenter.

Forstall said, “We’ve already sold more than a quarter billion devices. That makes iOS the number 1 mobile OS.

“We have a lot of customers who want to use the iPad or iPhone as their only device.” Well, now you can, and it ain’t too shabby.”

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