Mac OS Ken: 02.22.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

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🗓️ 22 February 2012

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

NPD and Piper Jaffray Look at Current-Quarter Mac SalesApple Pushes Sandboxing Deadline for Mac App Store Apps to 1 JuneReport: Apple to Allow Independent Environmental Reviews of Some Factories in the Supply Chain in ChinaApple’s Facilities Report - Environmental update 2012 Outlines Plans for Renewable Energy at NC Data CenterApple Confirms Plans for Pineville, Oregon Data CenterThe Daily: Microsoft Office for iPad Close to App Store Submission (and They Say They’ve Seen it)Microsoft Says Pictures in The Daily Are Not of an Actual Microsoft ProductMicrosoft Office for Mac Exec Says Office for iPad Would Be News to HerThe Daily Stands By Its Office for iPad StoryOfficial Microsoft News Twitter Account Kind of Argues Against The Daily Story Sort ofBarnes and Noble Intros 8GB Nook Tablet at 199-Dollars to Fight Amazon Kindle FireiPulpit: For the 21st Century Religious LeaderCheck out the iPulpit at http://littlemountainproductions.com (Flash Required (???))

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:01.0	News of Macs and for Macs and for Mac developers, a look at environmental and data issues for Apple,
0:17.8	and a ridiculous back and forth over Microsoft Office for iPad.
0:21.6	It's Wednesday, February 22, 2012. I'm Can Ray and this is news
0:28.0	from MacO.S. Ken. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you, subscribers to brought to your
0:33.2	you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you
0:33.9	subscribers to Mac OS can day six
0:37.2	more information is available at Macoess can
0:40.3	com
0:41.2	this show is also supported by the MacOS Can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,
0:48.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:53.4	NPD says Max Sales are looking flat this quarter,
0:56.7	though Piper Jeffrey analyst Gene Munster sees a couple of ways
0:59.7	that their numbers could be off.
1:01.8	Apple Insider has NPD group saying that its domestic checks
1:05.7	show 1% Mack growth for the current quarter. That's better than shrinking, but not nearly
1:11.0	as good as the growth seen by the Mac for so many
1:13.3	consecutive quarters. But here's the thing, international sales are nothing to
1:17.7	sneeze at anymore. According to Mr Munster's note, Mac NPD units were
1:22.2	up 12% year over year, but actual worldwide MAC unit growth came in at
1:26.5	26% year over year, a difference of 14 percentage points, suggesting international MAC sales are driving the growth in MAC units.
1:36.1	So that's one way max sales could do better than flat.
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