Mac OS Ken: 04.09.2013

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Canalys: Google Play Accounts for 51% of Apps Downloaded in 1Q; Apple App Store Accounts for 74% of App Revenue App Store Wrongly Identifies Some Apps as Offering In-App Purchases Raymond James Survey: iOS Stickier Than Any Other OS/Device Combo USPTO Conditionally Changes Stance; Grants Apple Request for iPad mini Trademark MacDaily News Source Says Mac Pro Announcement Planned for This Month Apple to Change iOS VPN Handling to Comply to Court Loss to VirnetX Apple Apparently Looking to Strengthen AuthenTec Staff with Jobs Ad for Melbourne, FL Design Center Former Apple Retail Exec Ron Johnson Out as CEO of JCPenney

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:10.0	Sussing out who's winning an app. It's
0:15.0	sussing out who's winning in apps, another financial analyst kind of starts to get it.
0:18.0	And there's a brand new front runner for the Apple retail gig.
0:21.0	It's Tuesday, April 9th, 2013. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco-S-Can.
0:28.0	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you, to Mac OS can Day 6.
0:35.8	More information is available at MacoS can.com.
0:40.0	This show is also supported by the Mac OS Can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod
0:46.0	touch, available on the App Store now for $2.99.
0:52.1	The Android iPhone sales tracking issue appears to have moved into the app arena.
0:56.6	Fortune has tracking firm Canilis saying that last quarter, Google accounted for 51% of mobile app downloads.
1:05.0	Some might say that that makes them the winner in the application space,
1:08.0	unless of course you're counting money.
1:10.0	While the candlest blurb doesn't say what percentage of app downloads Apple's App Store accounted for,
1:15.0	it was obviously less than half since Google's offerings accounted for more than half.
1:20.0	And yet, just as the iPhone takes a majority of smartphone profits while selling a minority of devices,
1:27.0	Apple's App Store accounted for 74% of mobile application revenue for the first quarter, despite holding less than half of the
1:34.7	apps downloaded.
1:36.3	Other interesting points, according to Fortune, app downloads at the four stores, Apple's
1:40.7	App Store, Google Play, Blackberry World, and Windows Phone Store, Google Play, BlackBerry World, and Windows Phone Store, totaled 13.4 billion in
1:47.0	Q1, up 11% between the December and March quarters.
1:52.0	Revenue hit 2.2 billion dollars from app sales and in-app purchases
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ken Ray, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ken Ray and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.