Mac OS Ken: 05.07.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Walmart Acknowledges Short Regional Pricing Errors for iPhone 4S Sprint CEO Foregoes $3.2-Million to Placate Investors Concerned About iPhone Subsidies Anandtech: 32nm A5 Processor Brings Improved Battery Performance to New iPad 2 Apple Files with WIPO for Control of iPhone5.com Warner Bros. Adds 1080p HD Movies to iTunes Store Forbes Sees Sense (Though No Proof) in Longer iPhone Talk NPD DisplaySearch: iPad Tablet Lead to Shrink to 50-Percent by 2017 USFTC May Fine Google $10Million + for Circumventing the Safari Cookie-Block Judge Allows “Location-Gate” Lawsuit Against Apple to Proceed Apple Preps Last Updates Before Turning Java for Mac Over to Oracle Apple Credits OpenStreetMap in Latest iPhoto for iOS Update NYT: Amtrak Deploying iPhone Ticketing System This Summer ATSB Says iPhone Fire on Australian Plane Caused by Botched Screen Repair by Non-Authorized Vendor

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0:00.0	This is MacOS. Can.
0:17.6	Always low prices, but not that low. Sprint's CEO pays for paying for the iPhone and some interesting tracks on the next iPhone's trail. It's Monday May 7, 2012. I'm Can Ray and this is news from MacO.S.
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0:53.1	Disturbance in the iPhone 4S Force late last week with reports that Walmart had dropped
0:58.6	a price on the 16 gigabyte model of the device to $114 at some locations.
1:05.0	Does this mean a new iPhone's on the way any day now?
1:08.0	Nope. It means somebody goofed.
1:11.0	9-to-5 Mac ran a piece, noting stories from The Verge and cult of Mac that had a Wally
1:16.3	World in Edmond, Oklahoma and another in Austin, Texas, offering the unbelievably low price.
1:22.8	And it turns out that's what it was.
1:25.2	Unbelievable.
1:26.4	Nine to five mag did some calling around and got a call back from the retailer
1:30.1	saying they had experienced a pricing error in limited stores.
1:34.0	The issue had been addressed and regular prices were back in effect.
1:37.6	A 16 gigabyte iPhone 4 asks for $188 at Walmart,
1:42.1	an iPhone 4 for $88 and an iPhone 3GS for 97 cents.
1:48.1	All of that's with a two-year contract, of course.
1:51.0	Sprint's CEO is kicking a little over $3 million back to his company, apparently because Sprint got the iPhone.
1:58.0	Okay, that's an oversimplification.
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