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Apple WWDC 2016 keynote: By the numbers
Executives talked numerical nuggets and updates at the developer event.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook and other key staff took to the stage at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco to announce its next-generation software offerings to its worldwide community of developers.
During the keynote, the company's management, lead engineers, vice-presidents and key personnel dished out a series of updates.
- 27 years of Worldwide Developer Conference this year
- 13 million developers building apps
- 2 million developers added in the last year alone
- 350 scholarships awarded so far this year
- 2 million apps in the Apple App Store
- $50 billion given to developers since the App Store's debut
- Four new platforms updated -- iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS
- 1,300 video channels for tvOS, the operating system for new Apple TV boxes
- 6,000 total apps on the tvOS App Store
- 10 billion documents stored by Apple in iCloud Drive
- 2 billion requests made to Siri
- 2,000 news outlets in Apple News
- 60 million monthly active users who read news from Apple News