You know, the iPod has really entered popular culture in America-you know that when you're lucky enough to get on the cover of The New Yorker, so we were thrilled with that.
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Now, I would like to give you an update on the iPod and our music efforts. We think it's the best buying experience in the world for personal computers. So that's a little update on Apple retail. Now our retail group is constantly trying to find the best real estate to locate stores and they made a video at a real estate convention and I saw it and I nabbed it because I wanted to show it to you, so could we run that video now? There were over 250 customers in the store-Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
I was there about two weeks ago on a Tuesday afternoon. I don't know if you've been to the London store but it's hopping it's a phenomenal store. We've also opened some, what are called flagship stores, this one being in London. We've opened a lot of stores like this in malls. We are seeing over a million visitors per week-a million visitors per week-and over the last 12 months the retail stores and the online store have sold over half a billion dollars worth of your products, so they're doing really well for us. Apple retail, we've got 109 stores now around the world. I'd like to give you a quick update on retail next. Isn't that amazing? So the developer community at Apple is thriving. We have our Apple Design Awards and this year we've got more entries than ever before, over 400 entries and it just shows the vibrancy of the developers community out there-it's fantastic! But the number that blows my mind for Apple developer connection members, we have now crossed a half-a-million members.
There are developers here from over 45 countries including China and India, and we've got some great stuff for you-over 110 lab sessions-and of those, 39 are hands-on, where you're sitting there on the machines during the labs-95 presentation sessions and over 500 Apple engineers are going to be on site this week to help you. This may be the largest developers conference in Apple's history-I'm not sure but I know it's the largest in the last decade, so welcome! We've got some great stuff for you today, but I want to start off with just some stats on the conference. Jobs: Welcome to our World Wide Developers Conference 2005. (The speeches made by three Apple developers supporting the decision are not included in this transcript, but the comments of Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel, have been retained.) For future reference, this is his keynote address explaining why the move is necessary and how it will occur over two years. Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs stunned customers, developers and industry analysts when he announced June 6 that the company was embarking on its third major transition: the adoption of Intel processors inside the Macintosh.
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