Mac OS Ken: 02.21.2013

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2014

⏱️ 19 minutes

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NPD: iPhones Accounted for 45-Percent of U.S. Smartphone Sales in 2013 China Mobile Sees 3G Sales Surge in First Month of iPhone Sales Barclays Analyst Drops “Overweight” Rating on Apple Apple Activates Two-Step Verification for More Countries Adobe Issues Second Emergency Flash Player Patch in as Many Weeks Apple Building New “Tactical Data Center” at Maiden, NC Site HTC Gets Anonymous Wearables Tease via Bloomberg Steve Jobs Said to Be Up for 2015 U.S. Postage Stamp SaneBox: Bring Sanity to Your Inbox with a 2-Week Free Trial at

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:10.0	Sizing up the smartphone market, one Apple analyst loses faith, and get ready for the Steve
0:18.8	Jobs sticker set.
0:21.4	It's Friday, February 21st, 2014. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacoS. Can.
0:28.0	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by IChart magazine.
0:32.0	Putting Apple and Tech News in focus
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0:42.0	NPD hit with new numbers for smartphones in the US on Thursday that would be really interesting to dive into.
0:49.0	According to Elekronista, the market tracker found the iPhone with an astounding lead in regards to
0:54.4	2013 smartphone sales in the states. The piece has 45% of the 121 million
1:01.4	smartphones sold in the States in 2013 were iPhones.
1:06.0	Assuming that that's true, can we please stop talking about what a runaway
1:10.8	success Android is? At least here in the States. See 45% is nearly
1:16.9	half. That means close to half of all smartphones sold in the US last year, we're not running Android.
1:24.0	When your lead is just a little over equal to the percentage held by second place,
1:29.0	you're not dominant.
1:31.0	You're ahead, but you're not dominant. You're ahead, but you're not dominant. For dominance in the
1:36.0	U.S. one looks away from smartphone operating systems and toward smartphone
1:39.8	makers. Again, the iPhone accounted for 45% of smartphones sold.
1:46.0	That was a very far ahead of second place Samsung's smartphone share in the U.S.
1:51.0	which came in at 26%.
1:54.2	See, one of those is dominant.
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