Mac OS Ken: 01.21.2014

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2014

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKinn.
0:10.0	A high-end iPad holiday. Mac Pro Supply is keeping its distance and Apple has to make a couple of bigger iPhones or something.
0:23.4	It's Tuesday, January 21st, and here's a fun fact.
0:26.8	It's 2014.
0:28.4	I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacoS. Ken, brought to you by yours truly and supported by IChart
0:36.0	magazine, putting Apple and Tech News in focus, EYE, ICh Chart magazine, available for iOS Newsstand now.
0:46.7	It wasn't just an iPad Christmas, but a high-end iPad Christmas according to one research
0:52.3	firm.
0:53.0	Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, or CIRP, issued a press release Monday,
0:58.0	wherein it laid out iPad sales for the recently ended holiday quarter as it sees them.
1:04.0	According to their survey of 500 Apple consumers,
1:08.0	41% of iPads sold were the new iPad heir,
1:11.0	25% were the iPad Mini, 16% were the iPad Mini with Retina Display, 13% were the
1:18.0	iPad with Retin display that preceded the iPad Air, and finally 5% or the iPad too. A few things make these numbers confusing, each of which
1:28.0	is tied to the calendar. While the numbers are for the whole October through December quarter.
1:33.2	The iPad air was not released until the 1st of November, one month into the quarter.
1:38.4	The iPad Many with Retinat Display meanwhile was not released until the 12th of November, nearly halfway through the
1:44.4	quarter, and finally Christmas landed at the end of the quarter, which is an automatic
1:49.1	goose for hot consumer electronics devices.
1:53.0	All those caveats aside it was a good quarter for the top of the line iPad, whichever
1:58.1	one happened to be current at the time.
2:00.7	The iPad Air and its predecessor took a combined 54% of iPad sales for the quarter, up from 43% for the top of the line iPad for the same quarter a year earlier.
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