Mac OS Ken: 08.06.2010

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2010

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

WSJ: China Unicom to Start Sales of WiFi-Enabled iPhones Next Week / Smartphones: iSuppli Says Android Installs will Top iOS Installs by 2012 / CNN Money Looks at the Importance of Apps to Smartphone Platforms / Google Re-Intros Nexus One as Developer-Only Unit / Global Equities Analyst Downgrades Microsoft on Competition from Mac / iLounge Secret Source Spouts Four Apple Hardware Rumors / Ars Technica Pokes Holes in the iLounge Rumors / Parts Leak Indicate FaceTime Camera for Upcoming iPod Touch / Rumor Has Apple Eyeing Chinese Internet App Company / Amazon Adds Free Word Games for Kindle / Amazon Opens UK Kindle Store / ElectricPig.co.uk Offers Video Tour of Covent Garden Apple Store / Dish Network Plans to Bring Streaming to iThings (with Special Hardware Requirements)

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0:00.0	This is MacO West Kingdom.
0:18.0	An army surrounds the iPhone, a most unexpected downgrade, and the rumor mill grinds again.
0:21.0	It's Friday, 6th, 2010. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco
0:28.0	S. Can. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to MacoS can Day 6
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0:46.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:51.0	China Unicom plans to start selling a Wi-Fi enabled iPhone beginning next week.
0:56.8	That's the word from the Wall Street Journal.
0:58.8	iPhones sold in China to this point through Apple or its authorized resellers have been
1:03.7	Wi-Fi free to comply with government regulations which some say has led to the
1:08.6	less-than-stellar adoption of the device there.
1:11.7	Unicom currently sells an 8-Gibyte version of the iPhone there. Unicom currently sells an 8 gigabyte version of the iPhone 3G as well as 16 and 32 gigabyte versions of the iPhone 3GS
1:20.0	and it looks like that's what they'll keep selling just with Wi-Fi enabled.
1:24.0	Unicom has said it's in talks with Apple to offer iPhone 4 and the iPad,
1:29.0	making it sound like the advent of a Wi-Fi iPhone in China will have nothing to do with the arrival of
1:34.9	iPhone 4.
1:36.7	So I guess it's officially official.
1:39.0	More Android's than iPhones are being sold in the States. Everyone says so. Analysts, Google, everyone.
1:47.0	Wired has Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying at a conference this week that he thinks
1:51.6	200,000 new Android devices are being sold every day
1:55.3	worldwide, double the rate of sale just two months ago.
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