As usual, Apple kicked off today's event with lots of impressive numbers. We're still waiting to hear about the iPad mini, but here's what Apple's been willing to brag about so far.
- 5 million iPhone 5 units sold on the first weekend
- 100 million iPads sold
- 200 million devices running iOS
- 700,000 App Store apps
- 275,000 iPad apps
- 35 billion app downloads
- 125 million documents in iCloud
- 300 billion iMessages sent (28,000/second)
- $6.5 billion paid to developers
- 400 million iBook downloads
- 1.4 million iBooks available
- 40 languages supported
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