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Mac OS Ken: 05.24.2021

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

- Tim Cook Testifies in Epic v. Apple Trial - Counterpoint Research: iPhone 12s Snag 34% of Q1 Smartphone Revenue - Barclays Drops Apple Target from $138 to $134 on Tough Compares and Regulatory Concerns - Second RC of iOS 14.6 Out to Developers - Apple Outlines Lossless Audio Playability - Spotify Turns on Offline Listening to Apple Watch for Premium Subscribers - iPad 2 Obsolete the World Over - Headspace - Meditation made simple. Get a FREE one month trial at Headspace.com/macosken - 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.

0:09.0

Tim Cook testifies.

0:10.6

iPhone keeps crushing it, and still more clarification around lossless. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco West Ken brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by

0:28.2

Head Space. Meditation made simple. Get a free one month trial at headspace.com slash Maco

0:37.4

West Ken. This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through Patreon.

0:45.0

Find out more and your support

0:48.0

at Patreon.com slash Maco-Westcan.

0:55.0

Tim Cook took the stand in the Epic V Apple trial on Friday.

0:59.0

How it went, maybe a bit of a Rorschock test.

1:02.0

The headline from The Virge says Tim Cook's

1:05.6

Fort Knight trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing, while the headline from

1:10.3

Kult of Max says Tim Cook's hotly anticipated epic trial testimony is a big nothing

1:16.3

burger. An article from Tech Crunch took particular issue with Cook's insistence that he didn't

1:21.9

know how much money Apple spends annually on

1:24.4

research and development or R&D aimed at the App Store. Quoting a piece first from

1:31.3

Venture Beat, Apple has argued that it spends a lot of money on

1:35.0

150,000 application programming interfaces, store maintenance, security,

1:40.9

app reviews, and other platform responsibilities.

1:44.5

The 30% fees that Apple charges helps it recover those fees and a return on its intellectual

1:50.1

property investment, which Cook said amounted to more than $100 billion since the launch of the iPhone.

1:57.0

He noted Apple has never raised its royalty rate since it created it,

2:01.0

and he noted that the store would be a toxic mess without reviews.

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