iPad 2

On 2 March 2011, Apple annouced the iPad 2. Briefly, the new features are:

• dual core A5 processor - up to twice as fast, 9 times the graphics performance
• 33% thinner
• lighter

What I found most interesting was the statistics:

• 200 million iTunes accounts
• $2 billion paid to developers
• 100 million iPhone 4s sold
• 15 million iPads sold in 9 months - more than every tablet PC ever sold
• 65, 000 iPad apps, vs 100 for Honeycomb

Back to the Mac

On 20 Oct 2010, Apple held an event called "Back to the Mac". Things announced were:

• New MacBook Air, with solid state memory as default
• iLife '11
• OS X Lion
• FaceTime for Mac

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/live-from-apples-back-to-the-mac-event/

Some interesting statistics from the event:

• Mac made up 33% of Apple's revenue last year - 22b
• 3x 5 years ago, 50m users worldwide
• 13.7m Macs sold in FY 2010
• Macs' share in retail was 20%
• Last quarter Mac grew 2.5x, outgrown market for 18 quarters in a row
• 600k Mac developers, growing at 30k a month
• Retail stores 75m visitors last year, sold 2.8m Macs, 50% new users
• Stores in China have highest traffic

Apple also announced their 4th quarter earnings:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/18/apples-q4-earnings-are-out-records-set-for-revenue-earnings/
More interesting statistics:

• Highest revenue and earnings ever
• 14.1 million iPhones sold, 3.89 million Macs, 9.05 million iPods and 4.19 million iPads
• All-time record for Apple of $20.34 billion in revenue for a net profit of $4.31 billion

 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/18results.html

The Future Of OS X
It seems to me that since Apple is doing so well with mobile devices, they're taking what they're good at and applying it to OS X, making it more like a mobile OS:

• Mac App Store
• App Home Screens (Launchpad)
• Full screen apps

What does this mean for OS X? Hopefully it won't lose the power to run computer programs. Already, I think OS X is more like a mobile OS than Windows is, since it wakes almost instantly from sleep. Engadget also ran an article on how OS X is becoming like a mobile OS:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/07/switched-on-the-ipadification-of-mac-os/