Mac OS Ken: 03.22.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2012

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:07.0	Sprint CEO Defends his iPhone deal.
0:11.0	Sprint CEO defends his iPhone deal, a wander through the 4G Wonderland, and say
0:17.2	Nijao to the new leaders and smartphones. I hope I got that close to right.
0:22.2	It's Thursday, March 22nd, 2012. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacoS.
0:29.2	Can. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you
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0:37.5	more information is available at MacoS can.com
0:41.6	This show is also supported by the MacoS Can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,
0:48.8	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:54.1	If you have a Sprint iPhone, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse loves you.
0:59.1	Electronista has Hesse explaining his 15.5 billion dollar commitment for iPhones over the next four years.
1:05.8	Sure it's a lot of money acknowledges the CEO.
1:08.6	This is the reason why a high percentage of new customers is important, But iPhone customers have a lower level of
1:14.7	churn and they actually use less data on average than a high-end 4G
1:18.6	Android device. So from a cost point of view in a customer lifetime value perspective, they're more profitable
1:24.9	than the average smartphone customer.
1:27.9	Okay, maybe he doesn't love you, but you are worth a lot of money to him, and while he sees you as unlikely to go anywhere, he does like the fact that a lot of you are leaving Big Red and the death star for Old Yeller.
1:40.0	Quoting the Sprint CEO, 4 out of every 10 iPhones we sold in Q4 are for new customers.
1:46.2	That's roughly double the rate of either of our competitors, so we're pulling a lot of customers
1:50.6	from our competitors.
1:52.4	And he hopes to keep them coming with unlimited data.
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