Mac OS Ken: 01.09.2014

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Needham Analyst: A Cheap iPhone Would Be Impossible and Insane China Unicom Discounts iPhone 5s Ahead of China Mobile iPhone Launch Staples Starts In-Store Sales of iPad Apple and Samsung CEOs to Meet to Try to Work Out Differences CES Sees First Major Appliance with MFi Certification Forrester: Microsoft Beats Apple in Late 2013 U.S. Consumer Survey Gartner Sees Growth for Microsoft in Phones and Tablets BlackBerry CEO Heads Back to the Future Get 10% Off of Your Squarespace Order with Coupon Code Ken at Squarespace.com/macosken

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0:25.0	A cheap iPhone is a dumb idea.
0:30.0	Apple and Samsung will try to work it out, and the first made for iPhone air conditioner.
0:35.0	It's about time, huh?
0:38.0	It's Tuesday, January 9, 2014.
0:40.0	I'm Kan Ray and this is news from MacoS. Ken brought to you by yours truly and supported
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0:59.2	While many financial analysts expect and clamor for a truly low-cost iPhone Needham and
1:04.4	company analyst Charlie Wolf says such a device would be an insane idea for
1:09.2	Apple to pursue and impossible to pull off successfully.
1:14.0	Apple Insider had the Wolfman issuing a note on Wednesday,
1:18.0	wherein he said trying to get into truly cheap phones would likely do serious damage
1:22.0	to Apple's highly profitable and successful
1:25.2	iPhone brand.
1:27.1	According to the analyst to hit the $350 subsidy-free sweet spot in emerging markets
1:32.4	and keep a hypothetical gross margin of 40% the
1:35.6	cheap iPhone would have to cost around $90 to build or less than half the cost of
1:41.3	the iPhones that Apple builds today.
1:44.6	So how is Apple going to make more iPhone customers?
1:47.6	Wolf thinks all the company really has to do is give it time.
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