Mac OS Ken: 02.27.2013

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2013

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Good Technology: iPad Trouncing Android Tablets in Big Business Pentagon Goes “Platform Agnostic;” Plans to Add 100k iOS and Android Devices to Service in Next 12-Months Doug Kass and Apple Shares: Something Hinky This Way Comes Apple Adds Name to Supreme Court Arguments Against California Same-Sex Marriage Ban Apple Offers Settlement in In-App Purchases Lawsuit Staples Starts Sales of Accessories for iPad, iPhone, iPod and Mac and Sales of Apple TV Android Execs Dismisses Google Retail Talk Apple Leaves Newton Trademark Unprotected Cult of Mac: The Case of the Disappearing Script - or - Word That Will Not Soar Through iCloud

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0:00.0	Good says the iPad's doing great. The Pentagon says it's good enough for them and
0:18.7	something hinky has happened on Wall Street. It's Wednesday, February 27th, 2013. I'm Ken Ray and this is news
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0:53.9	While some worry over competition for the iPad and the consumer space, it is cleaning up in the
0:58.7	enterprise.
1:00.0	All things D has new numbers from device management company Good Technology.
1:05.0	Good serves about half of the Fortune 100, according to the piece, and they say that just
1:09.4	over 93% of the tablets they activated last quarter were iPads.
1:15.0	And Android-based tablets accounted for just under 7%, and that's the ball game.
1:20.0	I guess the good news for Android is there's almost no place to go but up and they do seem to be doing that
1:26.8	Just incredibly slowly the 6.8% that Android tablets grabbed last quarter was up pretty significantly from the 2.7% they had in January of 2012.
1:38.0	The bad news for Android, of course, the other 93.2% of the tablet space belonged to Apple. The US Defense
1:46.2	Department is breaking its crackberry addiction. Bloomberg has the
1:50.0	DoD announcing yesterday that it plans to have about 100,000 phones and tablets
1:55.1	running iOS and Android on its networks by this time next year.
2:00.2	The announcement was seen as bad news for Canada's BlackBerry, which is currently the biggest supplier of smartphones to the Pentagon.
2:07.5	But you know what's hip and now?
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