Mac OS Ken: 10.28.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2011

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Apple Full-Time Staff Up from 49,400 in FY2010 to 60,400 in FY2011 / Apple Grows R-and-D Spending from 1.8-Billion Dollars in FY2010 to 2.4-Billion Dollars in FY2011 / Apple Nearly Doubling CapEx to Eight-Billion-Dollars in FY2012 / Sprint CEO Says iPhone Deal is for Four Years; Valued at 15.5-Billion Dollars / Sprint CEO Praises Efficiency iPhone Data Use / Forrester Reverses Years-Long Stance; Suggests Enterprise IT Support the Mac for Those Who Want It / Apple Issues Aperture Update; Printer Driver Updates for HP and Epson Machines / NYT: Bilton Says Siri the Key to Steve Jobs Cracking the Connected TV Experience / Samsung Granted Appeal Hearing in Australian Galaxy Tab 10.1 Injunction / HP Decides to Stay in the PC Business / HP Plans to Get Back Into Tablets with Windows 8; Leaves Fate of webOS in the Air / Motorola Mobility Only Ships 100-Thousand Xooms in 3Q

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0:00.0	This is mak always can.
0:10.0	Apple spent more money and is spending more money TV talk gets serious and
0:17.2	HP stays in the PC game. It's Friday October 28, 2011.
0:23.2	I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacO S. Ken.
0:28.1	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you.
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0:46.7	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:51.8	Apple is spending more of its money, employing more staff, and building more stuff.
0:57.4	Macworld UK has Apple saying in its 10K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has a total of 60,400 full-time
1:05.8	employees worldwide, over half of whom, roughly 36,000, are working in Apple retail.
1:12.9	The 60,000 is up in a pretty big way from 2010's 49,400 full-time employees.
1:20.4	As for the super secret goodies, Giga-O has Apple saying in its 10-K that it's increased its research and development spending
1:27.0	from 1.8 billion dollars in fiscal year 2010 to 2.4 billion in fiscal year 2011. They've spent a lot, then again they've done a lot,
1:37.0	hitting with Lyon, I. Cloud, I. OS 5, and iPhone 4S all in the last year.
1:44.0	Plus there's that three-year product pipeline referred to by design deity Johnny Ive in the recently
1:49.0	released Steve Jobs biography, quoting Giga Ohm, while in the past Apple has been praised for
1:54.9	doing a lot of innovating for relatively little money. A heavy infusion of
1:58.8	R&D money at this critical juncture in the company's history is probably a good sign.
2:03.7	Apple needs to wow customers to keep up investor confidence and money invested in coming up
2:08.8	with amazing products is a good way to do that. For more on Apple spending more money we turn to Business Insider.
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