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Apple data

“Mac sales rose 28 percent year-over-year during Apple’s last quarter, while PC sales declined 1 percent

There are now 54 million active Mac users around the world.

Mac sales have outpaced the broader PC market for 5 years, 22 straight quarters

Apple has sold 200 million IOS devices to date …

… which accounts for more than 44 percent of the mobile market

25 million iPads were sold in the device’s 14 months of availability

15 billion songs have been sold from the iTunes store …

… making Apple the #1 music retailer in the world

130 million books have been downloaded from iBooks

There are 425,000 apps in the app store

90,000 of them are designed specifically for the iPad

14 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store in less than 3 years

Apple has paid some $2.5 billion to developers building apps for the app store

There are 225 million iTunes Store accounts, all of them with associated credit cards and 1-click purchasing

There are 50 million Game Center users. XBox Live, which has been around for a lot longer, only has about 30 million

IOS users send more than 1 billion Tweets a week

To date, about 100 billion push notifications have been sent to iOS devices

The iPhone 4′s camera is the second most used camera on Flickr”

via Warsystems, via Digital Stats.

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Confusing apple

The Australian supermarket chain Woolworths applied for a trademark in August last year. Woolworths’ new logo is a  stylised “W” with a leaf on top, but apparently Apple thinks different (sorry bad pun, couldn’t resist). Apple has decided that it will challenge Woolworths trademark application (via Techgeek). Apple claims that the similarities could potentially confuse the consumer. I can’t see it myself…

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Personalized tech or why the fuss about engraving

When Apple started selling iPods they also offered personalization through lazer engraving. Naturally you could not do much but you could engrave a small message on the back of your iPod. Surprisingly the discussion at the time was not about the illusion of individuality in a mass consumer society. The main annoyance seemed to be about the words which were not allowed to be engraved on the iPod.

Now there is an alternative reason why companies are keen on allowing us to personalize our stuff. The Consumerist reports:

Ever wonder why some places will engrave your electronics for free? It’s so you can’t return them. Really. That’s the reason. Returns of perfectly good, non-defective merchandise account for 95% of returns and “free engraving” is a cheap, easy way to ensure that that item won’t be coming back.

Cool! It’s nice to see that there is an underlying evil reason for this seemingly friendly gesture – it restores my faith in the world.

Actually on the issue on personalization I must admit to engraving my last two laptops. Pics on Flickr.

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My new laptop is up and running

This is the first post I am writing with my new laptop. After unpacking, installing a new, larger and faster hard drive & increasing the ram all that was left to do was to re-install the operating system. Naturally that was the easy part (pictures here).

What to do with a new laptop?

The rest of the day was spent on an installing fest… All the large and small programs that make up a basic functioning computer. This is then followed by the really high intensive work of fine tuning the software to make it feel right at home. You know the kind of thing, adding bookmarks, arranging themes, transferring files. Time consuming but necessary work.

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WordPress client for iPhone

This snappy little application means that you could blog anywhere anytime… all I need now is an iPhone… Strangely enough I still don’t feel the desire to own one…

Excellent news for bloggers came…when WordPress announced that they’re developing a client application for the iPhone.

The WordPress client for iPhone is available in the App Store and in iTunes.

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