The Numbers From Apple’s October 16 Event

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Every year, Apple kicks off their product presentations with a “state of the business” introduction that, with various numbers and facts, reveals how the company is doing in several areas such as retail, the App Store, iOS device sales and software upgrades, and Mac sales.

At today’s media event in Cupertino, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared only a few details about the launch of new iPhones, but the company still revealed some interesting numbers and statistics throughout the keynote.

48% of customers have already updated to iOS 8 after 4 weeks; 46% of them remain on iOS 7, and 6% on “other” versions of iOS.

Another 500 banks have confirmed they will support Apple Pay.

More than a million members of the Mac community signed up for the Yosemite public beta.

225 million iPads have been sold to date.

675,000 apps have been created specifically for the iPad.

The new iPad Air 2 is 6.1 mm thin; 18% thinner than the first iPad Air.

The new A8X chip of the iPad Air 2 has a 40% faster CPU, 2.5x faster GPU.

The Mac’s line has been growing 18% year-over-year.

The iMac’s new Retina 5K display has 67% more pixels than 4K.

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