Mac OS Ken: 05.04.2015

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

- IHS Lists 38mm Apple Watch Sport Parts at Eighty-One-Dollars and Change - iFixit Gives Apple Watch Repair Rating of 5-Out-of-10 - Apple Acknowledges Issues with Tattoos and Apple Watch - Apple Outlines Steps for Cleaning the Digital Crown on Apple Watch - Samsung Apes Apple in Latest Phone Ad - Apple Makes Concessions to Please the Unpleasant - Apple Hiring Director of Global Marketing Operations at Beats - Three Steve Jobs Business Cards on Auction for The Marin School - Tim Cook Lunch Auction Still Stands at 200-Thousand Dollars - Get 10% Off of Your Squarespace Order with Coupon Code macosken at

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0:00.0	This edition of Maco Ascan is brought to you by Squarespace, the easiest way to create a beautiful website, blog, or online store,
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0:17.0	Try it at Squarespace.com and enter offer code Mac-O-Sken at checkout to get 10% off. This is Mac OSKinn.
0:40.0	Dinging further into Apple watches, Apple hits trouble moving on up, and are you looking for a job at Beats?
0:47.0	And an assistant?
0:50.0	It's Monday, May the 4th, 2015.
0:54.1	I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacoS.
0:58.3	Can, brought to you by yours truly and supported by IChart magazine putting Apple and Tech News in focus
1:05.8	EY E E E E E E E E E E I Chart magazine available for iOS newsstand now. You know what Tim Cook would like? Tim Cook would like
1:17.2	it if analysts and industry watchers didn't try to count up the costs of
1:21.0	making an individual Apple watch. He made that clear on the second
1:25.1	quarter fiscal year 2015 earnings call saying of such estimates, I've never seen one that is anywhere
1:30.8	close to being accurate.
1:33.7	You know what research firm IHS thinks of what Tim Cook would like where such estimates are
1:38.1	concerned?
1:40.3	Insert derisive noise here.
1:43.0	9-5 max says the firm has done an extensive tear down of Apple's answer to time.
1:48.0	One assumes they did a little online or catalog shopping as well since they found not only a list of
1:53.9	components but what they believe to be a total bill of materials. At least they
1:59.2	did for one of the watches. The component cost of a 38 millimeter apple watch sport according to IHS is $81.20.
2:08.6	Add in manufacturing and the cost goes up to $83.70 by the firm's estimation. Of course, parts are just the
2:17.0	beginning or more accurately close to the end. There's research, there's
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