Mac OS Ken: 07.04/05.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2012

⏱️ 12 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Secret Sources Tell Bloomberg That a Low-Cost iPad-Mini is Coming by Year’s End NPD: Tablets to Overtake Laptops in Mobile PC Share in 2017 Sharp Sales Fall for Wintek Could Mean In-Cell Panels for Next iPhone O2 UK: Study Shows People Using Smartphones as Everything But Phones Amazon Reportedly Buys Its Way Into the 3D-Mapping Game with Purchase of UpNext Apple Appeals Latest Charges by Italian Competition and Marketing Authority Kodak Gets Go-Ahead to Sell Patents Despite Apple Protests Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview for Rent Through iTunes Cult of Mac: Apple Loads Retina Display MacBook Pro with 10 Liquid Sensors Horace Dediu: PC to Mac Sales Ratio Back to 1985’s 20-to-1 Fortune’s Elmer-DeWitt Figures 2003’s Release of iTunes for Windows Started the Ratio's Return

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:05.0	iPad mini talk gets loud again, a possible hint about the next iPhone and we'll set the wayback machine for 1985.
0:16.0	I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacoS. Can for Wednesday, July 4th and Thursday, July 5th.
0:23.7	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you,
0:27.6	subscribers to MacoS. Ken Day 6.
0:31.2	More information is available at MacOSCan.com.
0:35.0	This show is also supported by the Mac OS Can Podcast App for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch,
0:42.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:47.6	The iPad Mini-Rumer is back again, or still, Bloomberg has the usual nameless suspect saying Apple plans to launch a 7 to 8 inch
0:57.6	iPad by the end of this year.
1:00.5	It will not be a retinid display device according to the piece, though it will be considerably less expensive than the current iPad.
1:07.0	Closer to the $199 people are currently paying for the Amazon Kindle Fire or will soon pay for Google's Nexus 7.
1:16.0	And Stern A.G analyst Shaw Wu says that could do some damage to Amazon, Google, and other tablet players.
1:24.1	Of the so far fictitious device, the womaner says
1:27.0	it would be the competitor's worst nightmare.
1:30.9	When will tablets overtake laptops for mobile computing supremacy?
1:34.6	Five years from now, according to NPD.
1:37.6	Tech Crunch has the research firm projecting sales of 416 million tablets in 2017, up from the 121 million projected for this year.
1:48.8	More importantly though, the firm is projecting a total of 809 million mobile PC solutions in 2017 and with
1:56.2	416 million being over half of 809 million that means tablets will
2:01.7	overtake laptops in five years, assuming NPD's numbers pan out.
2:07.0	A couple of interesting points in the report, tablets will reign in developed or mature markets, not all around the world.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ken Ray, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ken Ray and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.