Mac OS Ken: 10.26.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2011

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

ABI Says Tablet Sales Eclipse Netbook Sales for the First Time in 2Q CY2011 / CEA Says Tablets Most Desired Gadget-Gift This Holiday Season / Harris Poll Shows Apple Dominance with Kids in America / Pew Study Shows Majority of Tablet News Seekers Unwilling to Pay / Conde Nast Sees Significant Rise in Subscriptions and Single-Issue Sales with Launch of iOS 5 Newsstand / Shaw Wu Says Content and Licensing Deals - Not Tech - Are Holding Back an Apple Television / Ive Comments in Jobs Biography Indicate Three-Year Pipeline for Apple Products / Rumor Has Sony Pursuing Aaron Sorkin to Write Script for Rumored Film Adaptation of Steve Jobs Biography / Apple Awarded Patent for “Slide to Unlock” Gesture / Report Has Apple Eyeing Solar Power for NC Data Center / The Flaming Lips to Honor Steve Jobs at O Music Awards Next Monday / Director of Photography for The Avengers Says None of Film Was Shot on iPhone After All / Father of the iPod Tony Fadell Launches a Smart and Sexy Thermostat / IDG Reboots Macworld Expo as Macworld/iWorld; Opens 2012 Registration

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:07.0	Tons of Tamblet Talk.
0:11.0	Tons of tablet talk. Shaw Wu says he knows what's holding up the Apple Television,
0:17.0	and the Expo makes way for the Eye World.
0:20.0	It's Wednesday, October 26, 2011.
0:23.8	I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacO S. Ken.
0:28.7	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you, to MacoS can Day 6.
0:36.4	More information is available at MacoS can.com.
0:40.6	This show is also supported by the Mac OS can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,
0:47.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99. We knew that sales of tablets like the iPad and the iPad were eating into netbook sales.
0:58.7	Now we hear that they have officially eclipsed them.
1:01.6	N-Gagit highlights new numbers from ABI research that show
1:05.3	13.6 million tablets being sold in the second quarter of this year, nearly
1:10.9	double the 7.3 million netbooks sold for the same period.
1:16.0	It's worth remembering the second quarter of the year was the first quarter of availability for iPad too.
1:22.0	The piece points out it's not price driving that shift since the
1:25.8	average selling price for tablets is $600 a great deal higher than the cost of
1:31.1	most netbooks out there.
1:33.5	Don't look for a netbook resurgence this holiday season.
1:36.7	CNN Money has the Consumer Electronics Association saying that iPads and other tablets
1:42.1	are at the top of wish lists for holiday gadgets this year.
1:46.8	Don't limit the list of gadgets and tablets are still pretty high up there, second only
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