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Mac OS Ken

Mac OS Ken: 06.08.2017

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

- iPhone Repair/Calibration Machine Hitting 400 Locations in 24 Countries - 22 Arrested for iPhone-Related Data Theft in China - Amazon Exec Pretends to Wonder Why Alexa and Siri Can’t Get Along - Apple Places Third on 2017 Fortune 500 - Apple’s Latest Shot on iPhone Spot Glows Green - Get 10% Off of Your Squarespace Order with Coupon Code macosken at - Power Mac OS Ken through Patreon at ! - Send me an email: or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0

This is Mac OSKIN.

0:07.0

This is Mac OS Ken.

0:12.0

Good news, bad news, and iPhone news, an Amazon exec gets my goat, and Apple goes green

0:18.8

with new messaging. It's Thursday the 8th of June 2017. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco West

0:27.8

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0:54.6

We start the day with some good news, bad news around the Apple partners and service providers.

1:00.0

First the good news.

1:01.4

Suddenly relatively simple iPhone repairs will be simpler to get and they'll come with

1:06.1

Apple's blessing. I told you yesterday of Apple piloting a program that'll give some authorized service

1:12.0

providers access to Apple's iPhone

1:14.2

calibration machine. Now it looks like the piloting part is already over and

1:18.9

deployment is underway. 400 authorized third-party repair centers in 25 countries company execs told Reuters.

1:37.0

Among the first recipients is Minneapolis-based Best Buy, the piece continues, which is long sold and serviced Apple products.

1:45.8

The electronics retailer already has one of the screen repair machines at a Miami store, and

1:50.9

one coming soon to an outlet in Sunnyvale, California.

1:55.1

The piece points out that this isn't just screen repair.

1:58.5

It's both repair and calibration.

2:01.1

Quoting the piece again, for security, only Apple's fix-it machine can tell the

2:05.5

iPhone's processor its silicon brain to recognize a replacement sensor. Without

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