Apple’s Mac turns 32: Mackintosh timeline and evolution

MAC VS PC  GROWTH MAPPED : APPLE MACINTOSH GROWTH  VS OVERALL PC  GROWTH SINCE 2010

Get ready to welcome back Apple’s keynote come september Apple’s upcoming iPhone event is taking place on September 9, and the press blitz is coming fast. Howrever for those apple fanatics who felt apple will be unveiling its next  hand watch or iweight accessories, a new icar or a new iTV is set for disappointment.

However as it goes with tradition, There would be a launch however as according to Appleinsider while Apple will announce two new iPhone 6 models on stage, there won’t be a 4-inch “iPhone 6c”. According to 9to5mac’s Mark Gurman, Apple is retiring the smaller iPhone c product line due to an “aging feature set.” The site adds that Apple is working on a new 4-inch phone product, but that it will not be released this year.
Meanwhile new reports from buzzfeed suggests Apple would make some kind of announcement of the new Apple TV. This was originally pegged for a launch in June 2015 during WWDC but was scrapped at the last minute the announcement then.

The iphone  has been apple’s bread and butter then back in 2013 , which continues to remain so even in 2015.The data shows apples product shipments and how they contribute to its revenue.  Apples itunes ecosystem continue to rake in the dollars, the only exception seems to be the case of ipad whose contribution is slipped by a huge margin in 2015, q1 and q2

For most of Gossip Girl’s first four seasons, none of the hit show’s glamorous teens carried the most talked-about smartphone of the last five years: Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone.  Bloomberg  businessweek recently carried on article on Apple.s product marketing in popular  Hollywood Movies Because of a product placement deal, they could only be seen with phones chosen by Verizon Wireless. Then, this season, shortly after the deal lapsed, several main characters started receiving their “Xoxo, Gossip Girl” texts on Apple’s hit device. The cast’s sudden conversion cost the Cupertino (Calif.)-based iPhone maker nothing. Apple has spent decades strengthening its subtle but powerful grip over Hollywood, and unlike many companies, says it never pays for its products to appear on television or in movies. The company’s gadgets were discussed or shown 891 times on TV in 2011, up from 613 in 2009, according to researcher Nielsen (NLSN). In the same year, iDevices appeared in more than 40 percent of the movies that topped the weekly box office, according to Brandchannel, which tracks product appearances. That’s nearly twice the penetration of the next most common brands in Hollywood—Dell (DELL), Chevy (GM), and Ford (F)

Apple ‘s numbers  in terms of sales, revenue and profits are mind blowling, and exceeds all ” expectations” Its  2011 sales were worth $128 billion — more than 160 different nations’ gross domestic products. Some of the trivia below about Apple from its  WWDC,2011 conference

http://jeremyreimer.com/postman/node/329 The  PC Vendors and their Marketshare   for the last  25 years of  Personal Computing

The above charts compiled by  Jeremy Reimer  shows the Personal Computing market share for the last 25 years .The first personal computer, the MITS Altair 8080, was released in 1975 and changed the world forever. A handful of geeks (Bill Gates included) saw this humble $395 kit as the beginning of something big… but nobody knew how big!

Source :Asymco

1)Apple’s growth last year IN EUROPE ALONE was $7 billion. That’s bigger than the GDP of Liechtenstein. 2) Phones now account for 39% of Apple’s overall revenue. iPhones did not exist 4 years ago.Apple sold 40 million iPhones last year. That’s 110,000 iPhones sold per day

3)The iPhone is now sold in 89 countries.Apple spent only $5.5 billion on sales, marketing, and general and administrative expenses last year. Microsoft spent $17 billion. 4)Apple sold $9.8 billion worth of stuff in its retail stores last year. That’s bigger than Saks, Barnes & Noble, Ann Taylor, Tiffany, Dick’s Sporting Goods, RadioShack

5)Apple’s stores each sell an average of $93,150 worth of stuff every day.That’s $3,900 an hour. And $65 a minute. 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. 6)Apple’s online music, video, and app store racked up sales of $4 billion last year. That’s $1 billion more revenue than the $3 billion generated by one of world’s biggest music companies, Warner Music Group

7)The total number of iOS devices shipped is 120 Million with 230,000 new activations per day. 8)Apple spent only $1.7 billion on research and development last year. Microsoft, with smaller sales and vastly slower growth, spent $8.7 billion   9)Apple has 160 million accounts active all with credit card details across 23 countries. 10)Apple has 160 million accounts active all with credit card details across 23 countries

Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Operating System Market Share

This Infographic is courtesy Dusan Belic from IntoMobile and you can see the full infographic below this story.  This data shows the iPhone evolution from the first iPhone back in January 2007 and Beyond. Starting then with the original iPhone,iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and the as yet unreleased iPhone 5.

             

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Apple’s App Store today broke 500,000 approved applications, proving that although Android has more users, Apple is still the king of apps. 

Early Tuesday morning  as Apple  reached  “another milestone  by adding the ”  app No. 500,000″ to its popular App store, which as of January, has seen more than 10 billion apps downloaded to its iPhone, iPad and iPod devices. The total number of apps currently available in the store is around 400,000 provided by an impressive 85,569 developers. This  is  due to older apps being updated and other being taken off the marketplace.

The statistics show Apple is far ahead of its closest competition, Google, which reached 294,000 apps earlier this month on three billion downloads. Meanwhile, Nokia has around 50,000 apps. To honor the occasion, three companies specializing in iOS apps – game-maker Chillingo, app search engine Chomp and app blog 148apps – have created an infographic highlighting some of the most interesting figures related to the vast ecosystem of iOS apps. According to their data, there are 85,569 unique app developers; the most popular iOS app is Angry Birds, and 37% of iOS apps are free, while another 29% of all apps cost only $0.99.

Research firm iSuppli predicts Apple’s app store revenue will hit $4 billion in 2011, accounting for three-quarters of the total apps sold. Meanwhile, Google recently announced that it would ensure Android products will be promptly upgraded to the latest version of the operating system for at least 18 months after release.