Chart of the day: Apple's 2nd-fastest growing revenue stream

Ten years later, it's the sprawling digital mall known as the Apple iTunes Store.

Source: Asymco

FORTUNE -- Asymco's Horace Dediu contributed to the bouquet of articles celebrating the iTunes Store's 10th anniversary with a story for Billboard magazine and the bar chart above, posted with a score of eye-popping data points in Happy Birthday iTunes Store.

What struck me, looking at Apple's most recent SEC Form 10-Q, is that revenue from the iTunes Store grew faster sequentially (30%) and year over year (26%) than every other line of Apple's business except the iPad (40% and 29%, respectively).

Maybe that's one of the reasons Tim Cook talked almost as much about Apple's new services during last week's earnings call as he did about the company's hardware products.

For more of Dediu's analysis of the newly redefined iTunes store, see Counting leg stools, Bigger than U.S. Steel and So long, break even.

Posted in: Apple, Asymco, Birthday, Horace Dediu, iPad, iTunes Store, Revenue, Tim Cook

• Life, death, calligraphy: The world of Steve Jobs

  Sunday, Feb. 24, would have been his 58th birthday

  FORTUNE -- As we did when he was still running Apple (AAPL), we'd like to celebrate Steve Jobs' life by re-posting what may be the most personal public speech this intensely private man ever made: His commencement address to the Stanford University class of 2005.

  If you haven't seen it — or haven't heard it recently — we give you Steve Jobs on life, MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 24, 2013 8:33 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Birthday, Commencement address, Stanford, Steve Jobs

• A birthday card for Steve Jobs

  Thousands around the world sign a website to wish him a happy 56th

  The virtual card honoring Apple's (AAPL) CEO is the handiwork of computing students at Imperial College London. "Our aim," write ringleaders Raoul-Gabriel Urma and Gabriel Lorin, "is to allow as many people to wish him a happy birthday this way letting him know he has a back-up of so many."

  You can add your message here.

  UPDATE: By the time Urma MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 24, 2011 6:23 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Birthday, Imperial College London, Steve Jobs

• YouTube at 5: 2 Billion served...per day

  YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday with a post showing its meteoric growth, some celebrity musings and news that it still doesn't turn a profit...yet.

  It is hard to believe that five years ago, there was no YouTube.  No place to easily upload and embed movies into a webpage, nor a place to look to to find entertaining clips from everywhere in the world.  YouTube, now a fundamental part of the Internet, MORE

  Seth Weintraub - May 17, 2010 7:40 AM ET
  Posted in: 5 year, Birthday, Gaga, Google, YouTube