WWDC 2010 Roundup
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Today, all eyes were on Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). Steve Jobs’ keynote was an eventful one.
Steve Jobs kicked things off informing the audience that Apple has already sold over 2 million iPads, which translates to selling an iPad every 3 seconds. If that wasn’t enough, in just 2 months, the App Store has welcomed 8,500 iPad apps and users have downloaded an average of 17 apps per iPad. This speaks volumes to the way consumers have been using the App Store.
The iPad is already available in 10 countries, and will be in a total of 19 countries by the end of July. Without a doubt, these trends will continue to grow since all of you seem to have found plenty of good apps to showcase on your iPad.
One of those apps that received a lot of attention today was iBooks. According to Jobs, 5 million e-book titles have been downloaded for iBooks already. The e-book reader app is accounting for 22% of the total e-book market. Not bad for an app that launched just 65 days ago.
In addition, iBooks is getting an upgrade with support for Adobe PDF files, making it easier for you to read and manage digital documents. Jobs mentioned that PDF viewing has been one of the most requested features from iBooks users.
Another interesting tidbit is that Apple settled on a name for the previously announced iPhone OS 4. The new name is iOS4, and it will include multi-tasking, folders, a unified inbox, Face Time video calling, and more. A big surprise was the inclusion of Bing as a search engine option, and the iBooks app which up to this point was only an iPad app. The iOS 4 will be officially released on June 21st as a free upgrade for existing iPhone and iPod Touch owners. Apple’s iOS4 will be available in Q4 for iPad owners.
Apple has ignited and reinvented the mobile industry over the last 3 years. Perhaps, the new iOS4 will continue to define the future of mobile media and other computing devices.
