Apple’s iPad Launch: By the Numbers

Apple didn’t just unleash a new iPad on the world Wednesday. As usual, the company dropped some stats as well. The new data was designed to illustrate the fact that Apple has moved on from being a maker of PCs and is now a leader in the “post-PC” era.

CEO Tim Cook made his case with some of the numbers below:

• Apple has sold 172 million “post-PC devices,” which make up 76% of revenues. It’s not clear if this figure includes iPods.

• There have been 25 billion downloads from Apple’s App Store.

• There are now 100 million customers on iCloud.

• The App Store has 585,000 apps.

• There are 200,000-plus iPad apps.

• Some 15.4 million iPads were sold in Q4 2011. HP shipped 15.1 million PCs over that time; number two Lenovo shipped 13 million.

Source: Mashable

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