Monday, June 6, 2011

Software : WWDC 2011: iOS in numbers: 200 million iOS devices sold

Software : WWDC 2011: iOS in numbers: 200 million iOS devices sold

WWDC 2011: iOS in numbers: 200 million iOS devices sold

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:54 AM PDT

While whipping the black sheet off iOS 5 at WWDC today, Apple's Scott Forstall gave delegates a quick run down of some key figures, including the fact that Apple has now sold over 200 million iOS devices.

He didn't break it down exactly into iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad segments, but it's still an impressive number for any operating system with so few devices on the market.

Forstall did mention that Apple has sold 25 million iPads in the first 14 months of sales, accurately observing that "Our customers couldn't wait to get their hands on the iPad 2."

Brag brag brag

"We're the number 1 retailer of music in the world," Forstall added. "We launched the iBookstore a little over a year ago and our customers love it. Over 130 million books downloaded."

Next up was a spot of app-related bragging; over 14 billion have been downloaded from the iTunes store, that's two for every person on the planet with a bit of change left over.

"The size and momentum of the App Store is really hard to fathom," he added, before going on to explain that there are now 425,000 apps in the store, of which 90.000 were made specifically for the iPad.

Apple claims it has paid out more than $2.5 million to developers, taken from the 225 million accounts with credit cards registered to them that Apple has across its iTunes, iBooks and App Store shops.

That's a whole lot of sensitive financial information, right there. Better stay on the right side of Lulz Sec and Anonymous, eh Apple?

Office 365 gets official release date

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:04 AM PDT

Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365 service is set to land on 28 June having been in beta since October 2010.

A tweet from Jon Roskill, a corporate VP at Microsoft, confirms the date and reveals that over 100,000 customers are already using the beta service.

The cloud-based Office 365 is intended for businesses, allowing people to use the suite of Office and business productivity programmes from within their browsers instead of installing a multitude of software apps on each of their machines.

Ah, context

As Microsoft puts it, "With Office 365, your local bakery can get enterprise-calibre software and services for the first time, while a multinational pharmaceutical company can reduce costs and more easily stay current with the latest innovations."

Quite why our local bakery would need enterprise-level administrative applications is not something that it goes on to clarify.

With this handy cloud-ability comes a price tag, although it's not clear exactly what that is. It's bound to be more than Google's Cloud Connect service which allows Windows users to sync offline Office docs with a Google account online, though.

Microsoft will release two versions of Office 365 on 28 June – one for smaller businesses and another for larger ones.

The beta version of Office 365 includes Lync, Microsoft's video and communications client; it's unlikely that this will be replaced by Microsoft's shiny new toy Skype just yet.

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