"It is a pleasure to host you today."
"I love Apple."
"I want to especially welcome you to this campus. This campus serves as a kind of second home for many of us, so it's kind of like inviting you in to our home." 1:03PM This room is called the Town Hall, which Tim says has quite a History
The original iPod was launched here. "It went on to revolutionize the way we listen to music." 1:03PM Then there's the MacBook Air, which has "fundamentally changed the way people think about computers."
1:04PM Today we're going to be learning about innovations in software and hardware, and the integration of all of these into a "powerful yet simple integrated experience."
"Apple has enormous momentum, and nowhere is that more evident than in our retail stores." Two new stores opened in China in the past week, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
The Shanghai store is "absolute gorgeous," the company's largest store in Asia. 100,000 visitors stopped by on opening weekend.
In case you're wondering, Tim's style is a bit more subtle than Steve's, a bit more understated. At the Hong Kong opening, they sold more Macs on opening day than they have in any
other store in the world.
357 total stores in 11 countries, and many, many more are coming to "raise the bar at retail." "Our products are at the core of everything we do." Tim's going to walk us through all four of them.
First is the Mac, and of course OS X Lion is the big news on that front.
Quoting Mossberg, saying that Lion is the "best operating system out there."
Six million copies of Lion downloaded so far -- 80 percent more than Snow Leopard.
At the same time Apple announced the new Air, which is "thin and light and beautiful and wicked fast -- our customers love it and our competitors have been trying to copy it." "The MacBook Pro and the iMac are the number one best selling notebook and desktop in the United States."
The Mac platform has grown by 23 percent since last year. The PC? Four percent.
This is a trend that dates back five whole years, with Apple approaching 60 million Mac users worldwide.
The net result? 23 percent market share for Apple as of August.
About one in four, give or take a few percentage points.
"There are still 77 percent of people who are buying something else. What does that mean? We have an incredibly high ceiling here. We
have a long way to go."。