Huge iPhone Growth and Is 2025 Over Already? MOSK: 12.03.2025

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Ken Ray

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4.8 • 972 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

- IDC Tracks Phenomenal Strength for iPhone in 2025 - Report: Apple Will Push Back Against Mandated Government App in India - Apple Urges Holdouts to Update to iOS 26 - Tap to Pay on iPhone Goes Live in Singapore - Apple Pledges Support for Parts of Asia After Devastating Rains - Apple Music Outs Final Replay '25 for the Year - Apple Music Lists Loads of Top 100 Charts - Sponsored by OpenCase - MagSafe for iPhone Perfected. Build your own holiday bundle and save at TheOpenCase.com - Safe Holiday Shopping and Goodbye for Now on Checklist No. 451 - Find it today at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @[email protected] - Send Ken an email: [email protected] - 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	This is MacOS Ken.
0:08.9	Phenomenal growth for iPhone.
0:11.3	More on India's mandated smartphone app.
0:14.8	And I guess the year is over or something.
0:18.9	It is Wednesday, the 3rd of December. See, it's only the 3rd of December.
0:21.2	See, it's only the 3rd of December.
0:24.8	It is Wednesday the 3rd of December 2025.
0:29.3	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacOS Ken.
0:35.0	Brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Opencase.
0:39.7	MagSafe for iPhone perfected.
0:43.0	Build your own holiday bundle and save at theopencase.com.
0:50.3	This show is also supported by people like you.
0:56.3	Patrons through Patreon.
1:04.8	Find out more in that your support at patreon.com slash macOS Ken.
1:12.6	Pollyanna and Eeyore meet at the corner of technology and liberal arts.
1:16.1	IDC issued a press release Tuesday, raising that firm's smartphone forecast for 2025,
1:20.3	largely thanks to iPhone.
1:23.5	The market tracker had expected smartphone growth of 1% year-on-year.
1:28.5	That's now been raised to 1.5%, primarily driven by accelerated performance for Apple in the holiday quarter, rapid growth in key emerging markets, and stabilization in China.
1:43.6	IDC Senior Research Director Nebula Popal says the Copertino company is said to have a record year in 2025.
1:51.8	The firm expects Apple to ship roughly 247 million units for the calendar year, up about 6% over 2024.
2:01.6	Maybe iPhone's biggest feat, though, is what it's doing in China.
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