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Apple’s WWDC Keynote: By the Numbers

As always, Apple’s WWDC keynote address was filled with a barrage of customer satisfaction figures, performance improvements, and more. Here are some of the most important numbers from today’s WWDC keynote.

Developers

  • Apple now has 16 million registered developers, adding 3 million “last year alone.”
  • WWDC 2017 has 5,300 total attendees from 75 countries represented.

Apple Watch

  • watchOS 4 brings 3 new types of Apple Watch faces: Toy Story, Kaleidoscope, and Siri.

macOS High Sierra

  • Safari is now 80% faster than Chrome in modern JavaScript performance.
  • Mail content now takes up 35% less disk space.

iMacs, MacBooks, and MacBook Pros

  • The updated iMac screens now reach 500 nits of brightness.
  • The new iMacs have 43% brighter screens while displaying one billion colors.
  • The base model of the 21.5” iMac received an 80% graphics boost.
  • The latest 4K 21.5” iMac now comes with 3x faster graphics.
  • The 5K 27” iMac now sports up to 5.5 teraflops of graphics computing power.

iOS

  • iOS has a 96% customer satisfaction rating, with an 86% iOS 10 install rate.
  • 50% of U.S. retailers will accept Apple Pay by the end of the year.
  • Siri now supports 21 languages and 36 countries.
  • iOS users take 1 trillion photos per year in the Camera app.
  • Apple Music now has 27 million paid subscribers.
  • The App Store is visited by 500 million users weekly, boasts 180 billion app downloads total in its history, and has paid $70 billion to developers to date.

iPad Pro

  • The 10.5” iPad Pro screen is 20% larger than the 9.7” iPad Pro’s and the device weighs 1 pound.
  • The new 10.5” and 12.9” iPad Pros reach a brightness of 600 nits and have a 120hz display refresh rate.
  • Apple Pencil paired with the new iPad Pros has cut latency to 20ms.
  • The 10.5” iPad Pro sports a 6-core CPU and a 12-core GPU, leading to 30% faster CPU performance and 40% faster graphics performance.
  • The 10.5” iPad Pro has 10-hour battery life.

HomePod

  • HomePod is under 7” tall.
  • HomePod has a 6 microphone system for “Hey Siri” listening.
  • Apple Music brings 40 million songs to your living room.

You can also follow all of our WWDC coverage through our WWDC 2017 hub, or subscribe to the dedicated WWDC 2017 RSS feed.

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