Mac OS Ken: 08.06.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2012

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Email Between Apple Execs Indicates Steve Jobs was (Eventually) Okay with the Idea of a 7-Inch iPad Schiller Talks Exponential iPhone Growth and Risk of the iPad at Samsung Trial RBC Analyst Says Apple Could Sell 40 Million iPad-minis in Year One 9 to 5 Mac Sources Say AT&T Stores Dropping Computers and Checkout Counters for iPads (Eventually) Business Insider: Secret Sources Say Apple Considering a Purchase of Social-Commerce Site “The Fancy” Apple Offers Mac Integration Certificate Materials for Mountain Lion

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0:00.0	So maybe Steve Jobs didn't.
0:17.2	So maybe Steve Jobs didn't hate 7 inch tablets. One analyst says Apple can make a boatload off them and the iPad may soon power the Death Star
0:21.7	gift shop.
0:23.0	It's Monday, August 6, 2012, I'm Kan Ray,
0:27.0	and this is news from Maco As-Can.
0:30.0	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you
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0:37.6	More information is available at MacoS can.com
0:41.6	This show is also supported by the MacOS Ken Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,
0:48.6	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:53.6	One of the hardest things to accept about all the talk of an iPad mini is Steve Jobs's
0:57.7	well documented hatred of 7 inch tablet.
1:01.2	But just like the iPhone and the video iPod before it, it turns out what Steve
1:05.0	Job said about 7 inch tablets may not have been an always and forever kind of
1:09.0	thing. We'll never know whether he actually liked the idea, but testimony during the ongoing Apple v.
1:15.1	Samsung v. Apple case in US Federal Court in San Jose indicates that jobs may have, at the very least,
1:21.2	accepted the need for Apple to do a 7 inch something.
1:25.0	CNET says during testimony last Friday, Apple IOS Chief Scott Forrestall indicated that Eddie the Stuff
1:31.3	Q started pushing for the idea in late 2010 and then
1:35.6	Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemed to be coming around to it. In an email to then Apple
1:41.0	C. O. O and current CEO Tim Cook, iOS Software Chief Forstahl, and
1:46.2	Marketing Chief Phil Schiller, Q says, I believe there will be a seven-inch market and we should
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