Macworld Conference & Expo 2006

Other Keynote Highlights

Figures, Figures and More Figures!

It's pretty obvious that Steve Jobs did not jump into product announcements directly, but rather along the keynote, he talked about other stuff relating to the Apple Retail Store, revenue and sales figures, market share, and the likes. Here are some interesting figures that we noted down and they translate well to another phenomenal quarter for the Cupertino-based company:-

• 26 million visitors for the Apple Retail Stores during the holiday quarter.
• $1 billion dollars in revenue for the Apple Retail Stores in the holiday quarter of 2005.
• $5.7 billion total Apple revenue in the holiday quarter of 2005.
• 14 million iPods sold in the holiday quarter of 2005.
• Over 100 iPods sold every minute 24/7.
• 850 millions songs purchased and downloaded.
• More than 1 billion songs per year run rate.
• 83% market share for iTunes.
• 8 million videos sold since October 12.

Mac OS X version 10.4.4

The best Mac OS to date (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger) received its fourth point release the same day of the keynote. Users will be able to download it on the Web or via Software Update on their Macs. Other than a number of fixes, the new update also includes several new widgets for Dashboard, including a Google search bar, a new Calendar, ESPN, SKI Conditions, White Pages, and many others. According to Steve Jobs, there are now about 1500 widgets available for Tiger.

The Road to Intel

June 2006 was the original timeline Apple had set down for the first Macs with Intel processors to be shipped. The announcements of the new MacBook Pro and iMacs have brought forward this estimated timeline by a fair bit. During the keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs also declared that all Macs would transit to Intel based processors by the end of this year, 2006.