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Mac OS Ken: 09.17.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2012

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Fun With Numbers Without Numbers: The iPhone 5 Pre-Order Sell Out Edition TMO Analysis: Apple’s “Blown Away” Comment a Not So Thinly Veiled Message to Wall Street Maynard Um Expects Better Sales in First Three Days of iPhone 5 Than First Three Days of iPhone 4S Munster: iPhone is Rolex in a World of Timex Smartphones Apple Releases Lightning to Micro USB Connector as Required by EU Law Apple Posts Publicly Accessible “Blueprint” of iPhone 5 to Its Developer Site Bloomberg: Siri Co-Founder Adam Cheyer Reportedly Leaves Apple Apple Seeds New beta of OS X 10.8.2 to Developers iPad Tops JD Power and Associates Tablet Customer Satisfaction Survey Ballmer Hints at Microsoft Surface Price Range HP CEO: We Have to Get Back Into Smartphones

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Mac OSKIN.

0:09.3

Fun with numbers without the Numbers, the iPhone 5 edition.

0:16.0

Analysts think you should sell a kidney to buy Apple stock,

0:19.0

but you really shouldn't, of course.

0:21.0

And surprising talk from a couple of Apple competitors

0:24.6

it's Monday September 17th 2012 I'm can Ray and this is news from Maco-S-KAN

0:32.9

brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you

0:37.1

subscribers to MacoS Ken Day 6.

0:40.6

More information is available at MacOScan.com.

0:44.0

This show is also supported by the MacOScan Podcast

0:48.0

app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch,

0:51.0

available in the App Store now for $2.99.

0:55.0

One thing that makes me angry every few months is when Amazon does its fun with

1:01.1

numbers without numbers thing. You know what I'm talking about.

1:04.7

Amazon says the Kindle Fire has X percentage of the tablet market where X equals some number

1:10.4

that may as well be made up since the seller of all things gives you nothing against which to check it.

1:16.0

They never say how many of a thing they've sold.

1:19.0

Rather they say,

1:20.0

Holy cow did we sell a lot.

1:22.0

It's the most biggest, bestest, what have you, and don't you worry about how many we actually sold.

1:28.0

I bring all this up to temper my own reaction to the sellout of the pre-order iPhone 5's last Thursday night Friday morning.

1:35.3

It would be easy, being an Apple watcher to get nutty about the number of iPhone 5's Apple

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