Apple has more than 900 million paid customers

Eddy Cue, Apple’s Chief Services Officer, is now sharing new numbers and celebrating his own services. You can see the full text of his remarks below, followed by the top facts and figures.

app storeIt receives 650 million visitors per week across 175 regions. Developers selling digital goods and services through the App Store have brought in more than $320 billion since the platform launched in 2008, marking another year of record revenue.

Apple Arcade: In 2022, Apple Arcade’s catalog expands with over 50 exciting new titles, including Warped Kart Racers, Jetpack Joyride 2, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, Wylde Flowers, and Cooking Mama: Cuisine! The service has also released over 300 updates and expansions to many existing hits including Sneaky Sasquatch, The Oregon Trail, Mini Motorways, LEGO Brawls, and Angry Birds Reloaded.

Apple MusicSince launch, Spatial Audio’s monthly listeners have more than tripled, with more than 80 percent of global subscribers enjoying the experience, while Spatial Audio’s monthly listeners have increased by more than 1,000 percent. Additionally, earlier this year, Apple Music partnered with Mercedes-Benz to bring spatial audio to drivers around the world for the first time. Apple Music Live gives fans access to exclusive live performances by some of the world’s biggest music stars, including Harry Styles, Lil Durk, Mary J. Blige, Billie Eilish, Luke Combs, Wizkid, and Alicia Keys. And just last month, Apple introduced Apple Music Sing, which allows subscribers to sing along to their favorite songs. With customizable sounds and an unparalleled real-time lyrics experience in Apple Music, users can easily sing duets, backing vocals, or take a lead role, all while taking advantage of an ever-growing catalog of the world’s best songs.

Shazam: The service celebrated its 20th anniversary with 70 billion Shazams. Users have discovered over 40 million different songs and over 1 million artists have Shazam their first song.

+ AppleTVIn 2022, Apple TV+ delivered some of the year’s most popular series, including The Afterparty, Bad Sisters, Black Bird, Echo 3, For All Mankind, Loot, The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, Pachinko, Slow Horses, Trying and the Emmy Award-nominated 14-Time Severance. Apple TV+ made history as the first streaming service to win the Academy Award for Best Picture with CODA, launching critically acclaimed films including Cha Cha Real Smooth, Luck, and Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me and Spirited, which became the highest-grossing film of all time. time in service. This year, Apple TV+ will bring highly anticipated series and movies from the world’s greatest storytellers, including new Apple Originals Dear Edward, Hello Tomorrow, The Reluctant Traveler and Shrinking, and new seasons of award-winning and acclaimed series like The Afterparty and Schmigadoon , Servant, Swagger, and Truth Be Told, as well as new films like Argylle, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Sharper.

sportsIn 2022, Apple made big strides into live sports, first with the debut of Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+, which exclusively screened two Major League Baseball games each Friday night during the regular season. Apple also announced a 10-year partnership with Major League Soccer. For the first time in esports, starting February 1, 2023, fans around the world will be able to stream every MLS match via MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app, without local locks. MLS Season Pass brings MLS to its largest global audience ever, with all games available on billions of devices via the Apple TV app and across the web.

AppleFitness+: In 2022, iPhone users in 21 countries are eligible to subscribe to Apple Fitness + even if they don’t have an Apple Watch, and the library has grown to 3,500 exercises and meditations. Fitness + also introduced Time to Run, Collections, a series of Artist Spotlight workouts set to music by Taylor Swift, a Yoga for Every Runner workout program developed with ultramarathoner Scott Jurek, and more. At the beginning of 2023, Fitness + announced new ways for users to improve their overall fitness and well-being. These include kickboxing, a new type of full-body cardio workout, a new series of Artist Spotlight workouts set to music by Beyoncé, an all-new meditation theme, and Sleep, along with new software to help users get started, and an introduction to Meditation for Sleep, season 5 of Time to Walk, starting with Jamie Lee Curtis, two new groups and three new trainers from Fitness+.

Apple Podcast: In the coming weeks, listeners will be able to enjoy new premium audio experiences from Brains On! Universe for Kids, from the economists behind Freakonomics Radio, The Pitch with Josh Muccio, and the daily news program Up First on NPR, plus new series from top creators like iHeartMedia, SmartLess Media, Sony Music Entertainment, and Wondery.

Apple MapsApple Maps has been redesigned from the ground up with more accurate navigation, more detail, and features like Look Around and Natural Language Guidance. In 2022, the new card will be launched in 13 more countries and regions around the world, including France, Germany, Israel, New Zealand and Singapore. The 3D City Experience is now also available in Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Montreal, Las Vegas, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

Apple PayApple Pay is now available to millions of merchants in nearly 70 countries and regions, and works with more than 10,000 banking partners and networks around the world.

Eddie Keogh writes:

2022 was a landmark year for entertainment. Sometime in the past year, everyone probably discovered a new app, song, TV show, movie, or game. An experience that made you laugh, taught you something new, or helped you see the world in a new way – and made you want to share it with others.

It’s amazing how much great content is available to us; An impressive testament to the extraordinary work of creators around the world. Never before have we had instant access to more original series, more immersive movies, more world-class music, more creative apps, more essential journalism, and more immersive games and sports – wherever we are and on all the devices we love.

At Apple, we’re excited to work with creators from all walks of life to create products and services that enable us to be more creative. Our goal has always been to enrich people’s lives and leave the world better than we found it, and we know it takes more than technical skill to achieve that. This requires that we be guided by our values ​​in everything we do. We believe our products and services should be made for everyone. We believe privacy is a basic human right and our highest commitment to our customers is utmost security. We believe that a culture that everyone belongs to can lead to innovation and that we must be committed to the change we want to see in the world.

When we launched Apple TV+ a few years ago, we did so to tell stories that reflect our humanity. Whether it’s CODA, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, or Ted Lasso, winner of the Emmy Award for Best Comedy, we’ve seen in many ways that this style of storytelling is appreciated and that there is a great desire for more of it.

And yes, there is more to come. Moments to look forward to, enjoy and reflect on. Moments that get us excited, let us share the excitement or just make us get up and dance. Moments that create lasting memories and bring us closer together.