Apple CEO Steve Jobs hit the stage to a thunderous round of applause and a standing ovation at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Wednesday, launching into updates on the company’s recent sales milestones.
Apple today announced that the company’s iBookstore has crossed a milestone, with 100 million books downloaded to date. CEO Steve Jobs, making an unexpected appearance at the media event held Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, also announced that the last major publisher holdout, Random House, is finally on board at last.
Random House joins the iBookstore stable with over 17,000 titles, completing a trifecta of six major publishers as well as more than 2,500 independent publishers already offered via iBooks.
Jobs also revealed that Apple has now crossed 200 million Apple ID accounts, which are used to power the company’s iTunes, iOS and Mac App Stores as well as iBooks. The company recently paid out over $2 billion to developers on their combined platforms. Finally, the company recently shipped its 100 millionth iPhone, marking yet another milestone for their flagship mobile product.
“Lots of people try to copy this, I think we’re way ahead,” Jobs remarked.
Jobs also touted the company’s first-generation iPad sales, with over 90 percent market share and $9.5 billion in revenue for the first nine months of last year -- the first Apple product to ever get off to such a fast start.
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