Follow Up Comments--WWDC 2003 Keynote

Steve jobs provided some interesting data on current Apple efforts before delving in to the new stuff:

Over 300,000 AirPort Extreme products (Base Stations and cards) have shipped.

There have been over 17 million visitors to Apple's Stores which number 58. Three new superstores will open, one in Chicago, San Francisco at Market and Stockton streets and in the Ginza District in Tokyo.

The one-millionth iPod shipped on Monday.

The iTunes music store has been up for 8 weeks and over 5 million songs have been downloaded as of last Saturday.

The beta versions of Safari, Apple's web browser, have been downloaded 5 million times.

There are 7 million active users of Mac OS X with 6000 application written for it and the time curve is accelerating.

Here are Apple's press releases for yesterday's announcements:

Apple Unleashes the World’s Fastest Personal Computer—the Power Mac G5

Developers Applaud Power Mac G5 Performance

Apple and IBM Introduce the PowerPC G5 Processor

Apple Previews Mac OS X "Panther"

Apple Introduces iChat AV and iSight

Mac OS X Users Top 7 Million and Applications Double to More Than 6,000

Apple Releases Safari 1.0

iTunes Music Store Hits Five Million Downloads

Apple Introduces Xcode, the Fastest Way to Create Mac OS X Applications

Apple Previews Mac OS X "Panther" Server

We downloaded Safari 1.0 and iChat AV and installed them without a problem.

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