30 Billion App Downloads? That's amazing
 

I am astounded by the numbers that Tim talks about in the WWDC Keynote here:

http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2012/

They have 800 million registered accounts all with live credit cards. The largest on the internet.

got to learn the iapp development.

Hope they're secure.

jez they can overjump fb with soem smart moves

App dev is where it's at right now it seems.

One out of every nine people. Boggles the mind.

By what measurement? Apple DWARFS Facebook in pretty much every significant measurement. It's already the largest company (by market capital) on the planet and will probably be the first to hit a TRILLION dollars. Facebook is worth what? 70 billion?

Facebook's dev platform is social...sure...but it's a joke compared to iOS.

As far as the social game goes? Apple would rather let Twitter and Facebook handle that stuff. Hence the OS level social integration.

They have absolutely zero reason to try and compete with Facebook on Facebook's playing field.

1 billion of those downloads were for Angry Birds. :)

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...on-downloads/1