Whenever Apple holds a keynote event, the company shares a variety of numbers related to things like user counts for certain products, software performance improvements, and customer satisfaction. With the company announcing the future of key platforms like iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, there was unsurprisingly a lot of data mentioned during today’s WWDC keynote.
We’ve collected some of the most interesting numbers shared on-stage during the keynote:
- Apple has now opened 17 developer academies around the world
- According to Tim Cook, “many millions of developers” engaged with last year’s online-only WWDC
- There are now 34 million registered Apple developers
- Dictation is used 18 billion times each month. That’s a lot of words
- Improved Maps will launch in 11 more countries later this year
- According to Apple, over 130 products are in the pipeline with support for the Matter home connectivity standard
- 98% of cars sold in the United States now support CarPlay; and according to a survey, 79% of U.S. buyers would consider a car with CarPlay integration
Mac Numbers
- The second-generation chip in the Apple Silicon family, called M2, features:
- 20 billion transistors, 25% more than M1
- 100 GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, 50% more than M1
- Up to 24 GB of unified memory
- Up to 18% better performance than M1
- 1.9x performance compared to a 10-core laptop chip while using 1/4 of the power
- Up to 35% better GPU performance than M1
- Specifically, Apple says it offers 25% better graphics performance at the same power, but up to 35% at max power
- 40% more Neural Engine operations than M1
- The new MacBook Air with M2, announced today, comes in 4 colors
- It’s 20% thinner, weighs 2.7 lbs, and is 11.3mm thick
- It has a 13.6” display with thinner borders
- The display supports 500 nits, which is 25% brighter than before, and 1 billion colors
- It has a 1080p camera with twice the resolution and twice the low-light performance
- The Air has a 3-mic array and 4-speaker sound system
- It supports up to 18 hours of video playback according to Apple’s benchmarks
- It supports 67W fast-charging, so you can charge up to 50% in 30 minutes
- It starts at $1199
- As for the new 13” MacBook Pro, also carrying the M2 chip:
- It’s 40% faster than the previous model
- Supports up to 24 GB of unified memory
- Supports up to 20 hours of video playback
- This is not a number, but it comes with the Touch Bar. The Touch Bar!
- Starts at $1299
- The M1 MacBook Air continues to be a product in Apple’s lineup, and it now starts at $999.
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