Mac OS Ken: 09.15.2010

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2010

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

NPD Data Indicates Another Record Quarter for Mac Sales / Apple Insider Says Info About 27-Inch Cinema Display Showing Up on Mac Configuration Pages / Best Buy Says Same Store Sales Hurt by Lack of iPads Last Quarter / Best Buy to Start iPad Sales at Every US Store on September 26 / Target Rumored to Start iPad Sales Soon with Wal-Mart in the Wings / New Amazon Ad for Kindle Attacks iPad / Leaked Screenshot Seems to Show Samsung Galaxy Tab Details / Adobe Finds Zero-Day Flaw in Flash for PCs and Mobiles / Nokia EVP Takes SHots at Apple and Google from Stage of Nokia World / Nokia Chairman Stepping Down in 2012 / Nokia Hires Palm Hardware Design Lead to Handle UX and Services for MeeGo / Apple Owns One-Fifth of Smartphones in Europe at Expense of Nokia / Apple Seeks Engineers to Work with Liquidmetal Technologies Technologies / Apple to Open Third Store in Italy This Weekend / Disney-ABC Exec Down on HTML5 / Report Has Jobs Stopped from Taking Throwing Stars Aboard His Own Plane / Apple Calls Throwing Star Report Pure Fiction

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S Ken.
0:16.5	Another record quarters in the making for the Mac. Best Buy needs more iPads, please.
0:19.5	And the Adventures of Steve Jobs Super Ninja. It's Wednesday, September 15, 2010. I'm Ken Ray and this is
0:28.8	news from MacoS. Ken, brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to
0:36.8	MacoS. can day six.
0:39.4	More information is available at MacoScan.com.
0:43.4	The show is also supported by the MacoS can Podcast app for the iPhone and iPhone touch,
0:49.2	available in the App Store now for $2.99. If you can't meet or beat in 2010 what you did for the same
0:57.9	period in 2009 you may be in trouble even Even if you're Apple.
1:03.8	Apple does not appear to be in trouble.
1:06.0	Let's set the way back machine for one year ago.
1:08.8	Everything sucked on the financial front and sales of tons of consumer products were showing signs of
1:14.3	cratering. This I've heard it said is one of the reasons so many sellers of
1:18.6	consumer goods are reporting such great year-over-year growth this year, even if John and Jane Q aren't spending as much
1:25.4	as they were in 2008 or 2007, they're spending more than they were in 2009.
1:31.8	And yet, while a lot of people were giving a lot of consumer goods a miss
1:35.2	Apple was turning in sales numbers that continued to spank the competition in
1:39.0	2009. But Apple Insider has NPD groups saying the Cupertino Company is on track to sell as many as 3.8 million
1:47.6	max in the current quarter, up 23% from the same quarter in 2009.
1:54.0	If there's a drag in the NPD numbers for shareholders,
1:57.0	it could be in the max average selling price,
2:00.0	which the firm says has dropped about 2.9% from the fiscal fourth quarter of 09.
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