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WWDC 2019 Keynote: By the Numbers

Every time 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, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and the all-new iPadOS today, there was unsurprisingly a lot of data mentioned at today’s WWDC event.

We’ve collected some of the most interesting numbers shared on-stage during the keynote and on Apple’s product pages:

iOS, iPadOS, and macOS

  • iOS has a 97% customer satisfaction rating
  • 85% of iOS users have updated to iOS 12 compared to 10% of Android users on the latest version
  • iOS devices will unlock 30% faster with Face ID on iOS 13
  • iOS 13 downloads will be up to 50% smaller and updates 60% smaller than previously
  • Apps will launch up to twice as fast as before
  • Apple Pencil latency will be reduced to 9 milliseconds
  • Sidecar will work wirelessly within 10 meters
  • 100,000 radio stations will be available on HomePod
  • There are over 450,000 apps on the App Store built using Swift

Mac Pro

  • Up to 28 cores
  • 8 expansion slots
  • 64 PCI Express lanes
  • Can handle 3 streams of 8K ProRes RAW video and 12 streams of ProRes 4K video
  • 1.4 kilowatt power supply
  • Up to 56 teraflops of graphics performance
  • Up to 1.5TB of system memory on 12 DIMMs
  • Up to 4TB of internal storage
  • Up to 6.3 billion pixels processed per second
  • Users can connect up to 6 Pro Display XDRs, which would cost up to $42,000

Pro Display XDR

  • Maximum 1,600 nits
  • 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio
  • 20 million pixels
  • 40% more screen real estate than 5K Retina display
  • 10-bit color
  • Over 1 billion colors

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