Apple WWDC 2014 News Roundup: What You Need to Know

Apple kicked off WWDC 2014 today with their annual keynote and they made big announcements in their previews of iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Here’s a roundup of the day’s news to keep you updated on the latest!

2014 WWDC by the numbers:

  • 25th anniversary of WWDC; 9 million registered developers
  • Attendees from 69 countries; 66% were first timers
  • 80 million Macs installed; OS X Mavericks has 40 million copies installed
  • Over 800 million iOS devices sold to date: 100 million iPod touch, 200 million iPad, 500 million iPhone
  • 130 million customers from iOS in the past year
  • iOS 7 satisfaction at 97%; 89% of install base running iOS 7
  • App Store has 1.2 million apps
  • 300 million visits to the App Store weekly; 75 billion apps downloaded

Here are stories that happened today:

June 3 additions:

We’ll continue to update this post as relevant updates are available. Thanks for tuning in today on the site and on Twitter folks!

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