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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's Cara Savoy joined by cnet's Josh Lowensohn and we were just checking in with Josh ticket to the latest update on Apple news and Josh it sounds like the big thing going on right now is this crazy interest in WWDC Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference coming up in June it's been going on for years but why so much interest this year well it's really the only time of year that Apple holds a conference for developers the rest of the time it's just kind of press events so they really kind of get hands-on experience they get time to ask questions with with engineers who are there in Apple staffers but it's also really all about the keynote that's when they unveil new stuff they've shown off new iPhones there they've shown off new versions of iOS and Mac os10 new hardware it's really kind of their chance to be a part of that with what the press usually get and what kind of demand are we looking at this year so typically they have about 5,000 attendees and all those people sign up immediately and so this morning that sold out in two minutes which is just crazy it took two hours last year incredible and these tickets aren't cheap either you know there's sixteen hundred dollars and you already need to be registered with apple as a developer which means you need to usually pay about a hundred bucks on top of that so it's a huge benefit for them but it also you know it's expensive they have to rent moscone west for an entire week you listed some of the announcements that have come in previous years are we expecting something huge from Apple this year that would drive up demand like this it's really safe to expect just software which doesn't sound very exciting but apples already said they're going to show off new versions of OS 10 and iOS so that's for the mac and for their iphone and ipad things like that they showed off iOS 6 there last year we got it about three months later they're kind of behind on OS 10 it seems so we can see both of those things kind of coming together for the public just a couple months after that but still this isn't where we're going to see like an Apple watch or an apple TV set finally this is just no incremental software the key thing to remember is that they're doing this for developers it's really to kind of give them an early chance to build stuff and get used to new platforms so they can really kind of get their apps and software ready to go for the more consumer a stuff they tend out the whole their own events so I would expect something like a watch or a TV to be separate that doesn't mean that there won't be a surprise they've done the hardware there before last year they did a retina MacBook Pros and like I said before they the iphone sure there's always like a little bit of surprise okay well speaking of popular software this weekend does mark the 10-year anniversary of iTunes that's pretty amazing yes the itunes store store so I Tunes itself is you know 12 years old going on 13 but the itunes store is turning 10 on sunday which is just crazy yeah that 10 years has gone by so fast do you have any idea how many downloads in the last 10 years yes so they've announced a 25 billion songs sold which is just nuts so I think that works out to 15,000 songs per second on average it's just it's nuts and it's it's becoming their fourth largest business just behind max Wow and so it's continuing to grow it hasn't stalled out no infection competition it's growing a lot and a lot of that's just because of apps it's kind of funny we did the math and if you actually take the expected revenue just from itunes alone it's more than three times as large as yahoo did all year so it's it's not it's not a small thing Apple seems to be making money hand over fist these days they're doing okay they are thank you so much see that's Josh loads and I'm card a su boy you've been watching the inside scoop