Mac OS Ken: 04.13.2020

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

- CIRP: iPhone Accounted for 44% of US Smartphone Activations in Q1 - GF Securities Sees iPhone SE2/9 Any Day; Staggered Release for iPhone 12 - Canalys: Mac Sales Dropped 21% Y-o-Y in March-Quarter - Mac Pro Hits Apple's Refurbished Store - Instinet Ups Apple Target to (Underwater) $240 and Keeps "Neutral" - Apple and Google to Work on COVID-19 Contact Tracing While Protecting User Privacy - Apple Maps to Pinpoint COVID-19 Testing Cites - HBO Extends Go/Now Support on Older Apple TVs - Apple Launches "Today at Apple (at Home)" - Addigy - An Apple Device Management Solution That Scales With You. Learn more at addigy.com/macosken - Do you have a Few Minutes for "In a Few Minutes?" It's in Apple Podcasts and Overcast now! - Power what we do next for as little as $1 a month. Join the Mac OS Ken Test Kitchen at Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:07.0	This is Mac OS Ken.
0:11.0	The recent past and possible future of iPhone, good news, bad news for the Mac, and tapping
0:18.0	the brakes on a planned exit.
0:21.1	It's Monday, the 13th of April, 2020.
0:24.0	I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacO S Ken,
0:29.0	brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Adigie, an Apple device management solution that scales with
0:36.2	you.
0:37.8	Learn more at a d d i g y atigy atigy atigy atigy dot com slash macoest. G. Y. A through Patreon. Find out more and add your support at Patreon.com slash MacoS can
1:02.0	Despite the
1:02.8	Apple stores and a warning of supply constraint, the first quarter of
1:07.1	2020 seems to have been good for iPhone.
1:10.0	At least it seems to have been here in the States.
1:13.0	Mac Rumors has word of new numbers from consumer intelligence research partners or CIRP.
1:20.0	According to those, iPhone accounted for 44% of all smartphone activations in the US from the start of the year through the end of March.
1:28.0	That's the highest percentage for the first quarter since 2016, according to the piece.
1:35.0	Not a lot of switching around these parts.
1:37.7	For new phone buyers, 89% of Android owners
1:40.9	stayed with Android, while 91% of iPhone owners stayed with iPhone.
1:46.8	C I R.P. partner and co-founder Mike Levin was quoted in the piece saying, for the past four
1:52.4	years or so, around 90% of new mobile phone
1:55.4	activations stayed with the buyer's previous operating system.
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