Mac OS Ken: 10.04.2010

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2010

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

UBS Says Apple Best Positioned to Own the Consumer in the Global Digital Living Room / Bucknell University Sounds Alarm Over iOS Apps and Privacy / NPD Says iPad Not Cannibalizing Netbooks and Notebooks / iLounge Looks at the NPD iPad Survey / Microsoft Sues Motorola for Patent Infringement in Android Phones / Apple Loses Graphic Display Suit to Mirror Worlds, LLC / Apple Settles Patent Suit Over Online Music Sales / Apple Sued for Patent Infringement by Olympic Developments / DigiTimes Hears Talk of Testing for Touchscreen Macs / Rumor Says Adidas Pulls Out of iAd Campaign Over Control Issues / Apple Updates MobileMe Galllery App with iPad and iOS 4 Support / App Store Runs Sale on 50 iOS Games / MLB Brings Post Season Play to iThings

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0:00.0	This is MacO West Kingdom.
0:19.2	UBS looks at owning the future. Is the Wald Garden safer than being out in the open? And what's killing the netbook? It's Monday, October 4, 2010. I'm Kanray and this is news from
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0:34.4	subscribers to Maco-Scan Day 6.
0:37.6	More information is available at Maco-Scan.com.
0:41.6	The show is also supported by the MacoS Can Podcast app for the iPhone and iPod touch,
0:47.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:52.0	By whom shall you be owned?
0:55.0	This is something we kind of sort of talked about on this weekend's edition of Maco Ascan Day 6.
1:00.0	So imagine my amusement slash horror when I read the piece in fortune that had UBS analyst Maynard Ome looking at the key players in the battle his firm sees brewing among the mega caps to own the consumer, their words not mine, in what they referred to as the
1:17.0	global digital living room.
1:19.4	Apple's winning, by the way, which is really not as comforting as I like it to be.
1:24.0	Quoting Professor Umboldor, we believe the holy grail for these vendors is to provide users
1:28.9	with seamless access, eventually through the internet or so-called cloud, to all types of content across all types of devices, anything with the screen, anywhere, and at all times.
1:41.0	It is what we dubbed the Global Digital Living Room.
1:44.0	Unlike in past years, the note continues, technology and ecosystems are now enabling this to be a reality.
1:51.0	While the race is still in the early stages, we believe Apple, Google, and Microsoft are the
1:55.0	early leaders in the group, each with strengths and weaknesses in different areas.
2:00.0	The early leaders are the ones that have glued or are in the process of gluing the content together with the hardware through end-to-end ecosystems.
2:08.0	Sony, Samsung and Amazon are dark horses according to the firm while research in motion, Nokia and Hewlett-Packard
2:15.2	have even less chance of winning than Sony, Samsung, and Amazon.
2:18.8	Content is King, and Apple's got the best ecosystem for it according to the analyst and his crew and
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