Apple device sales hit 120 million

Posted by Clara Martínez Turco on September 2, 2010 at 2:22 PM

Apple has sold 120 million iPods, iPads and iPhones since 2007, when it launched its iOS operating system, chief executive Steve Jobs announced yesterday, paidContent revealed.

This represents an increase of 20 million in the last three months. Every day, the company is activating an average of 230,000 devices, Mashable reported. These numbers only include activations and not system upgrades, Jobs said.

Steve Jobs presented Apple's results during an event in San Francisco. Photo: paidContent

This puts Apple's "operating system ahead of the pace of Gooble Inc.'s Android software. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in August that Android was gaining 200,000 new users a day, up from 100,000 two months earlier," a Bloomberg article stated.

So far 6.5 billion applications, which translates in 200 apps per second, have been downloaded from iTunes. According to PCWorld, Apple's virtual store has 300,000 apps out of which 25,000 are for iPads.

The popularity of iTunes has been driven by high sales of iPods as 275 million of these devices have been sold since it was launched in 2001. The store "accounted for 28 percent of all U.S. music purchases and 70 percent of all digital sales in the first quarter," Bloomberg explained, citing NPD Group Inc. data.