Stock update for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ) Apple for iPad reportedly coming in weeks Apple kicks off back-to-school promo: buy a Mac, get a $100 AppStore gift card Apple's iTunes Store, App Store now cost roughly $1.3 billion a year to operate WWDC survey finds 47% of iOS developers support Android, 7% write for Mac Apple launches new iPad2 ad In the s ame article linked above , Horace Dediu reports that Apple released the following data in its last WWDC 2011 event 15 Billion iTunes song downloads 130 million book downloads 14 billion app downloads $2.5 billion paid to developers 225 million accounts 425k apps 90k iPad apps 100k game and entertainment titles 50 million game center accounts And Horace also reckons Apple is rich enough to buy out every other phone maker except Samsung .
