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Mac OS Ken: 01.15.2018

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

- Apple Moving iCloud Data in Mainland China to Mainland China - Whoops! Error Email Sent to iCloud Users Outside Mainland China - What if China Requires a Backdoor? - Apple Shares Hit New Intraday and Closing Highs - NPR and Edison Research See Smart Speaker Surge - No More Signatures for Apple Pay Purchases Soon - Siri Can Now Answer Pro Golf and Tennis Questions - Report: Apple Met with AR Types at CES - Get 10% Off of Your Squarespace Order with Coupon Code macosken at Squarespace.com - Power Mac OS Ken through Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken! - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0

This is MacO-S Ken.

0:12.1

Mr. Bongol goes to China, interesting numbers around smart speakers, and Apple slinks around

0:18.8

CES.

0:20.8

It's Monday the 15th of January 2018. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Macau West

0:28.1

Ken brought to you by yours truly and

0:35.0

our offer code truly and sponsored by Squarespace. Start your free trial today at Squarespace.com

0:39.0

and our offer code MacoWest can to get 10% off your first purchase. This show is also supported by people like you,

0:47.3

patrons through Patreon. Find out more in that your support at Patreon.com slash Maco-West can. It's another tale of

0:58.8

Apple doing something ethically icky in the name of doing business with a dash of Mr. Bungle thrown in for good measure.

1:07.2

Last week Mac rumors ran a piece saying that Apple had confirmed plans to turn operation of

1:12.0

iCloud services in mainland China over to the Chinese

1:15.7

company Guaijo on the cloud big data or G.C.B.

1:21.8

According to the piece, G.C.B. D. is owned by the Guaijo Provincial Government in southern China and will

1:27.8

manage Apple's new $1 billion data center which opened in the region last year. Like it or not, put me in the not category,

1:38.0

this is the cost of doing business in China. The government there announced cloud

1:42.0

computing regulations in June of last year

1:45.0

requiring foreign firms to store data within the country.

1:48.8

Mac Rumors says other tech firms with data centers in China include Microsoft and Amazon which will also

1:55.4

need to comply with the new rules. Apple said customers based in the country had

2:00.3

been contacted and advised to examine new terms and conditions according to the piece

2:05.0

and this is where we say hello to Mr. Bungle.

2:09.0

Nine to five macaroni piece over the weekend that had Apple saying,

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