Mac OS Ken: 10.22.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

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🗓️ 22 October 2012

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Fortune Looks at the Many Unknowns and Great Expectations for the Tuesday Apple Event Gruber Sees $249 to $299 as a Sensible Starting Price for iPad mini KGI Analyst Estimates iPad Mini Components to Run from $195 at the Low End to $254.50 at the High End Price-Comparison Site Says Consumers Choose Black iThings Over White iThings by 70% So Far in 2012 Evercore Partners Analyst Expects Apple to Phase-Out iPad 2 Soon Electronista: Apple Event Could Include Release Date for iTunes 11 iMore: iBook Description in France May Indicate iBooks 3.0 Announcement (or May Have Been a Typo) TechCrunch: Wait Times Reduced for New iPods All Things D: Sources Say Apple Hires Engineering Team from Color; Does Not Buy Entire Company 9 to 5 Mac: Work Begins on the Apple Prineville,OR Data Center Nokia Lumia 920 on Pre-Order at Best Buy for $149.99 Apple Sued for Locking the iPhone to AT&T (And No, It’s Not 2008)

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:10.0	counting down to the Tuesday Apple event, anticipating things besides an iPad mini, and high weirdness
0:18.8	in the cell phone space, it's Monday October 22nd, 2012.
0:23.6	I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco-S-Can.
0:28.0	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you,
0:32.3	subscribers to Mac- can Day 6.
0:36.0	More information is available at MacOScan.com.
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0:47.2	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:52.3	Tomorrow we'll likely see the introduction of the iPad mini and oh, there is so much stuff we don't know.
0:58.0	Like whether we'll actually get an iPad mini.
1:00.0	I mean we probably will but we don't know for sure don't worry day sixers I'm not
1:04.9	doing the whole 10 minutes in fact that's all of the 10 minutes that I'm gonna do
1:09.0	fortune runs down a few of the unknowns out there including the exact screen size, memory
1:13.8	capacities, what the thing might be called and what else might be introduced.
1:17.6	But we can probably boil it all down to this. Everyone thinks Apple is going to
1:22.1	introduce a smaller iPad tomorrow.
1:24.0	The biggest question around the smaller iPad, how much will it cost?
1:29.0	The fortune piece I mentioned a moment ago has entry prices ranging from $249 to $299 to $299 and running up
1:36.9	from those starting points. Creative Strategies analyst Ben Beherin argued on Maco-Scan on day six a few weeks ago that the starting
1:44.4	price of the new iPod touch at $2.99 means the iPad mini has to start at a higher
1:49.7	price point than that.
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