Mac OS Ken: 02.10.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2011

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

RBC Analyst Expects One Million Verizon iPhones Sold This Week / Close to 600 Wal-Marts to Get Verizon Wireless iPhone 4 Today / New iPhone Orders Showing 18 February Ship Date / AT&T Offers Qualifying Customers Another Reason to Not Leave for Verizon / Electronista: Some Apple retail Stores Experiencing MacBook Pro Shortages / iPod Classic - Fifth Best Selling PMP in 2010 - May Be Safe from Extinction / HP Announces New webOS Phones and a webOS Tablet and Plans to Bring webOS to PCs / Apple Insider: webOS to be Layer on HP Windows-based PCs / Gruber Says a Late-Summer TouchPad Could Collide with iPad 3 (in Theory) / Gruber Explains His iPad 3 Speculation / Apple Updates iBooks App for iOS Devices / Vatican Says Confession App Not a Substitute for Confession

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKAN.
0:17.0	It's Verizon iPhone Day, again. More hints of new Macbook pros soon,
0:20.0	and HP goes into Terraforming.
0:23.0	It's Thursday, February 10, 2011.
0:26.3	I'm Kan Ray and this is news from Maco-S-Can,
0:31.3	brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you, subscribers
0:36.0	to MacoS. Can Day 6.
0:38.8	More information is available at MacoS can.com. This show is also supported by the MacoS can Podcast
0:46.2	app for the iPhone and iPod touch available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:53.5	RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky is expecting big numbers for Verizon iPhone this week.
0:59.4	Fortune has the analyst saying he expects the carrier and the Cupertino company to sell 1 million
1:05.7	Verizon iPhones this week and 3 to 4 million by the end of March, which is kind of surprising
1:11.6	since he thought last week that the two would only put aside 100,000 for current Verizon customer pre-orders.
1:18.0	This is strong, right to Brahmski, though the piece points out it's less than the 5 million iPhone 4s AT&T activated in its first full quarter of sales last summer.
1:29.0	Strong though it may be, Abramsky seems to think they could have expected stronger sales, save seven reasons.
1:35.0	One, iPhone 4 is new to Verizon, but not new, new.
1:40.0	Two, a lot of Android owning Verizon customers are still locked into that contract.
1:45.0	Three, AT&T gave customers early upgrade options where Big Red did not.
1:51.0	Four, a lot of AT&T customers are caught in the Death Star's tractor beam and can't make it over to Verizon.
1:58.0	Five, and this one feels like a stretch, Verizon's single data plan for iPhone at $30 a month unlimited is more expensive
2:06.7	than AT&T's capped plans at 15 and 25 dollars. Six AT&T's first quarter of iPhone 4 sales covered a full 13 weeks versus the 7 weeks
2:17.8	comprising Verizon's first quarter of sales and rounding out the magnificent 7 some people who may choose a Verizon iPhone
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