Mac OS Ken: 01.24.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

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🗓️ 24 January 2012

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Pew Internet Survey Says Ownership of Tablets Nearly Doubled Over the Holidays, As Did Ownership of eReaders British Airways Expanding iPad Deployment for Cabin Crew Global Equities Research Says 350k iBooks Textbooks Downloaded in First Three Day; 90k Downloads of iBooks Authors Apple Launches Support pages for New iTunes U at Apple Names Anderson Teixeira Its First Ever Head of Latin American Division Ovum: Android to be Bigger with Developers than iOS by Start of 2013 Virgin America Dubs One of Its Planes “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:14.5	The holidays were huge for tablets and e- readers. Interest looks high for I-books, textbooks, and Apple taps a guy to head up Latin America.
0:20.0	It's Tuesday, January 24th, 2012.
0:23.7	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacOS. Ken.
0:28.4	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you,
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0:46.4	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:51.3	The gift bags of Santa Claus, Hanukah Harry, and whoever delivers for Kwanza must have been stuffed to capacity with tablets and e readers this past Christmas slash Hanukkah slash Kwanza.
1:01.0	A survey run by the Pew Internet and American Life Project says the share of
1:05.6	adults in the states who own tablets or e-readers nearly doubled from 10%
1:11.0	to 19% between mid-December and early January.
1:15.0	To be clear, that was 10% to 19% for each category, not both tablets and e-readers combined.
1:22.0	Pugh's press release says putting the two together, the number of Americans owning at least
1:27.2	one of these digital reading devices jumped from 18% in December to 29% in January.
1:34.5	The study says the findings are pretty significant since summer to fall ownership of such
1:38.8	devices was pretty much unchanged.
1:41.6	It's likely that the holidays move the needle some, though Pugh says the introduction of the
1:45.6	Amazon Kindle Fire and the Nook tablet from Barnes and Noble both at considerably lower prices
1:51.2	than other tablets likely helped with a sharp spike.
1:56.3	The introduction of Nook and Kindle E readers under a hundred bucks may also have spurred adoption. We've heard lots of stories over the past few months of iPads moving into the cockpit.
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