Mac OS Ken: 04.17.2013

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2013

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Munster Sees $300 Contract-Free iPhone Coming This Fall (and It Could Wreck the iPhone Party) WSJ Says Microsoft Eyeing Parts for a Smartwatch Communications Expert Says Apple Silence Is Currently Hindering the Company Symantec: Android Saw Most Malware in 2012, Though iOS Had Largest Number of Vulnerabilities Weird Suit Sees Apple Sued for Patent Violation NPD: iTunes Still Rules U.S. Digital Music Sales; Less Than 40-Percent of Consumers Think Owning Music is Important Apple Store on Boylston in Boston Closed in Wake of Monday Bombings Apple Puts Mothers Day Promotion Front and Center in US Online Store Apple Updates iPhoto and Aperture with New Photo Stream Functions and Bug Fixes Apple Releases Minor Xcode Update Apple Steps Up Hiring for Oregon Datacenter Time Warner Cable to Start Streaming Channels and VOD Through iOS App Outside of the Home Beginning Today Facebook Talking About Bringing Home to iOS (or - You Know - Not - Whatever)

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0:28.0	Uncle Jean tells tales of terror, a case for Apple speaking up,
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1:02.2	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
1:08.3	One ardent Apple follower laid out a case for a so far imaginary Apple product yesterday though it reads to me like an argument
1:16.0	against Apple Incider has Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster issuing a note to clients
1:20.9	on Tuesday wherein he said a $300 contract-free iPhone could easily
1:26.3	take more than 10% of the low-end smartphone market in its first year of availability. Sounds good, but give them a minute.
1:35.0	According to Mr Munster, gross margins on the $300 device would be 30% or $90 a phone.
1:42.0	That's way off the estimated 55% gross margin it's currently
1:45.1	making on its six hundred twenty dollar iPhones which comes up to roughly
1:49.0	340 bucks a phone. Oh and you might rather buy a contract-free $300 phone than locking yourself into
1:56.8	yet another two-year contract with the Death Star Big Red or Old Yeller.
2:02.1	That's his worst case scenario. Though I like to call it fairly sensible, the idea
2:08.1	that you might buy a $300 contract-free iPhone that keeps you in the iOS loop. What seems less sensible
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