Mac OS Ken: 08.09.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2012

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

IDC: iPhone Grows 27.5% Y-o-Y in 2Q; Controls 16.9% of Smartphone Market Worldwide NPD: iPhone Grabs 31% or US Smartphone Market in 2Q; Samsung Takes 24% iPad Dominates the Tablet Space in China (Not as Big as It Might Be) Apple Offering Refurbished iPad with Retina Display at $50 Discount Fortune: Munster and Reitzes Weigh the Full-On Apple Television Possibilities Jefferies & Co. Analyst Makes Up a Story About Samsung Buying RIM or Licensing BlackBerry 10 Bernstein Analyst Makes Up a Story (Maybe) About Apple COnsidering a Stock Split Apple v. Samsung v. Apple: 2010 Samsung Memo Says Its Stuff Would Be Better If It Was More Like Apple’s

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:10.0	A look at iPhone and iPad growth.
0:09.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:12.0	A look at iPhone and iPad growth separating the analysts from the fictioners,
0:17.0	and a piece of Apple v Samsung evidence worth mentioning.
0:20.0	It's Thursday August 9, 2012. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacO
0:25.8	S-Ken. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you,
0:30.8	subscribers to MacO-S- Mac OS Can Day 6.
0:34.3	More information is available at MacoS can.com.
0:38.2	This show is also supported by the Mac OS can Podcast app to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:49.8	Let me start by saying I like the unofficial Apple Weblog. I actually wrote for them for a short time, but they seem to have fallen into the same pit that's claimed financial analysts disappointed by last quarter's iPhone sales.
1:01.0	According to a TUAW piece, market researcher IDC hit with the second
1:05.8	quarter smartphone numbers yesterday, and while they were awesome for Apple, they were
1:10.4	apparently not exceptionally awesome.
1:12.8	According to IDC, according to the piece,
1:14.8	Apple shipped 26 million handsets and grabbed 16.9% of the global
1:20.0	smartphone market.
1:21.4	This is a 27.5% increase over the same quarter last year.
1:26.0	And this, the piece seems encouraging, but not spectacular.
1:30.0	Despite its double digit growth, you see, the iPhone didn't outface the overall
1:34.4	smartphone market which grew 44% year over year. Because it's not enough to grow
1:39.7	by leaps and bounds, one must also outgrow entire industries as the Mac has done the
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