A Lunar New Year Sale and Apple's Lobbying Spend Jumps - MOSK: 01.23.2026

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Ken Ray

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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- Apple China Lowers Prices for Some Devices for Lunar New Year - Number of Discounted Units "Profoundly Limited" in Lunar New Year Promo - Additional Ads Hitting App Store Search Results in - 9to5Mac: Apple's U.S. Lobbying Spend Hit Record High in 2025 - Bloomberg: Sources Say Ternus Now Managing Apple Design Teams - New Santa Rosa Apple Store Opens Today - Utah Senate Leader Wastes Senate's Time on Bill for a Preferred State Mobile OS - Apple Nabs Six Academy Award Nominations - Sponsored by CleanMyMac: Use code MACOSKEN20 for 20% off at clnmy.com/MACOSKEN - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @macosken@mastodon.social - Send Ken an email: info@macosken.com - Chat with us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken

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0:00.0	You know, the cool thing about being sick.
0:03.1	You hear this voice?
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0:12.7	This is MacOS Ken.
0:17.2	Much ado about a sales promotion.
0:19.6	Apple's lobbying spend sky rockets, and six Academy Award nominations for Apple.
0:26.5	It is Friday, the 23rd of January, 2026.
0:30.9	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacOS Ken.
0:36.5	Brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Clean My Mac.
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1:00.9	find out more in than your support at patreon dot com slash macOS can a story that starts with an bug but ends with a head scratcher south china morning
1:17.9	post ran a piece thursday that had apple slashing prices for lunar new year as competition heats up
1:24.7	in mainland china the piece has ivan, senior analyst at Counterpoint Research,
1:31.4	indicating that Apple rolled out the promotions to counter declining monthly sales
1:35.7	by capitalizing on the Lunar New Year shopping period.
1:40.3	The Post Post had the analyst pointing out that iPhone sales fell month-on-month in the December quarter.
1:47.5	That's despite Apple winning the quarter with a 22% share of China's smartphone market.
1:55.1	Part of me wonders whether Lamb painted this as negative for Apple.
2:00.0	Seems possible that South China Morning Post, which kind of jams on jamming up Apple when it can,
2:06.7	might have used Lamb's words for an angle.
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