Numbers: June 2008 Archives
"At a hardware BOM and manufacturing cost of $173, the new iPhone is
significantly less expensive to produce than the first-generation
product, despite major improvements in the product's functionality and
unique usability, due to the addition of 3G communications... The
original 8Gbyte iPhone carried a cost of $226 after component price
reductions, giving the new product a 23 percent hardware cost reduction
due to component price declines."
Read the full article at iSuppli's Preliminary Study. The image shows the BOM from the iSuppli article. Click on the image for larger version.
Running on less than 300 servers, Wikipedia boasts some huge numbers:
Read the full article at A Look Inside Wikipedia's Infrastructure - Data Center Knowledge.
- 50,000 http requests per second
- 80,000 SQL queries per second
- 7 million registered users
- 18 million page objects in the English version
- 250 million page links # 220 million revisions
- 1.5 terabytes of compressed data
Read the full article at A Look Inside Wikipedia's Infrastructure - Data Center Knowledge.
Some pretty interesting statistics about the mindset of teenagers when it comes to shopping and online life:
- They prefer to shop in a store (82%) to shop online (18%)
- They prefer to IM a friend (54%) over calling (46%)
- They would rather get their locker vandalized (63%) than their homepage (37%)
