Mac OS Ken: 05.01.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2012

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

CIRP Survey Highlights Importance of Walmart as iPad-Seller CIRP Survey: PC to Mac Conversion-Rate Greater at Apple Retail Partners Than at Apple Retail Australia to Quiz Apple, Microsoft and Others on Higher Prices for Digital Goods Down Under Mobile Marketer Fisku Says iOS App Downloads Drop 30-Percent from February to March (Though with a Few Good Reasons) Reports Have iTunes Match Expanding to Five More Countries This Week Apple Urges Developers to Get Friendly with Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper Yahoo Point Person on Women’s Initiatives Reportedly Heads to Apple’s iAd Division Microsoft Gets 18-Percent of New Barnes and Noble Nook Subsidiary RIM Australia Says It’s Behind the Sydney and Melbourne “Wake Up” Happenings

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:08.0	A-O-S-Kinn.
0:10.0	A look at Apple's retail partners, Australia has a few questions about digital
0:15.8	downloads and pricing and March may have been a rocky month for the App Store.
0:20.3	It's Tuesday, May 1st, 2012.
0:23.7	I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco-S-Ken.
0:28.6	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you
0:32.5	subscribers to Mac OS can Day six.
0:36.0	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 touch,
0:47.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:52.0	How big a deal is Walmart for the iPad?
0:55.2	A new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners indicates that it's a pretty big deal.
1:01.2	Business Insider has the firm saying that the world's largest retailer now accounts for more than a tenth of all iPad sales based on a recent C. I. R.P. Survey, though it's unclear from the piece whether that's all iPad sales in the States or seriously all iPad sales.
1:18.0	Either way, though, it's no small number.
1:20.0	The survey would seem to add a bit of way to Apple CEO Tim Cook's recent comments on Walmart as a retail partner.
1:26.5	When asked about the partnership on last week's quarterly earnings call, Cook called Walmart an increasingly more substantial partner in the iPad space and an evolving partner on iPhone.
1:37.0	Cook concluded his Walmart comments saying,
1:40.0	We're working with them and enjoy working with them and hope to continue expanding.
1:45.0	C. I. R.P. also had some thoughts on the part played in converting PC users to Mac users by Apple's own retail stores.
1:53.0	Fortune has the firm pointing out that while Apple is proud to say,
1:56.0	quarter after quarter,
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