Mac OS Ken: 02.07.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

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🗓️ 7 February 2011

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Verizon Wireless Says More iPhones Pre-Ordered in First Two Hours Than Any Other Phones Sold on Any First Day / Analyst Figures as Many as 2-Million Verizon iPhones Ready to Roll / Report: First Consumer Takes Delivery of Verizon iPhone Over the Weekend / Verizon Wireless Seeks to Allay Worries Over Throttling Heavy Data Use / A Look at the Moto Xoom Ad Mocking Apple / Best Buy Ad: Motorola Xoom to Cost 800-Dollars and Require a Month of 3G Service to Activate WiFi / Verizon Wireless Spends Three-Million-Dollars on Ad for iPhone / The Daily Runs a Super Bowl Ad and Addresses User Issues / Forbes: Most Companies Do Not Have CEO Succession Plans / MacStories.net Says iOS Update Coming Next Week / Search Filters and Other Changes Land on App Store for iPad / Apple Adds Genius Recommendations to iTunes Store for iPhone and iPod touch / Apple and Adobe and Autodesk and Rosetta Stone Sue Site and Proprietor for Alleged Software Piracy / Georgia State Legislators Weigh Apple Proposal for iPads as Textbooks

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S Ken.
0:04.8	Kagan. This is Mac OSKEN.
0:17.0	Kicking off Week 5 of Verizon iPhone Week, All God's children got ads,
0:19.0	and next to no one has a CEO succession plan.
0:23.2	It's Monday, February 7, 2011.
0:26.4	I'm Kan Ray, and this is news from MacO-S.
0:30.6	Ken, brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you, subscribers
0:36.2	to Maco-S-Can Day 6.
0:39.2	More information is available at Maco-S-Kan.com. This show is also supported by the MacoS Can
0:45.8	podcast app for the iPhone and iPod touch, available in the App Store now for
0:50.7	$2.99.
0:54.1	How happy is Verizon with the iPhone?
0:56.6	Pretty happy, most likely.
0:58.7	I told you Friday that Apple and Verizon had suspended pre-orders
1:02.0	for existing Verizon customers, but the news it turns
1:05.0	out was bigger than that.
1:07.3	Dan Mead, President and CEO of Verizon Wireless, sums up February 3rd saying, this was an exciting day and just our first
1:15.4	two hours we had already sold more phones than any first day launch in our history
1:20.7	and when you consider that those initial orders were placed
1:23.8	between the hours of 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. it is an incredible success story. For how
1:29.6	many phones did people register before Big Red and Apple pulled the pre-order plug?
1:34.6	Neither company would say, though one report has the number over a million.
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