Mac OS Ken: 10.29.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Wifi-Only iPad mini Shipping Time Slips from 2 November to “Two Weeks” Amazon Says Sales of $199 Kindle Fire HD Pop After Announcement of $329 iPad mini Amazon Posts Self-Leaning Chart Comparing Kindle Fire HD Versus iPad mini on Front Page of Amazon.com MarketWatch: Gazelle Sees Devices Trade-Ins Rise 700% After iPad mini Announcement; NextWorth Sees iPad Trade-Ins Rise 1,000% DMCA Exemption Not Extended to Tablets or Smartphones Purchased Next Year A New Round of Countries to Receive iPhone 5 This Friday PC Magazine Gives 13-Inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display (Conditional) Editors’ Choice Nod iFixIt Gives 13-Inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display 2 Out of 10 for Repairability Apple Launches TV Ad for 13-Inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display Apple Issues Software Updates for New 13-Inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display as Well as for Camera RAW, Logic Pro and Logic Express iFixit Gives New Mac mini “8 Out of 10” Repairability Rating Google Android Event and D: Dive Into Mobile Both Postponed Due to Hurricane Sandy Get the Free Hurricane App by the American Red Cross on iTunes Registration Open for Macworld/iWorld 2013 Apple Opening New Retail Location in Shenzhen, China This Weekend Apple Inc Takes Control of Apple Corps Granny Smith Green Apple Logo Working Apple 1 Up for Auction

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:18.5	I look at the iPad mini and the anti-IPAD mini, news around the new Macs, and Hurricane Sandy puts the Kaibosh on a couple of tech events.
0:22.2	It's Monday, 29th, 2012. I'm Ken Ray and this is news
0:27.7	from Maco S. Ken. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you, subscribers to Mac OS can
0:36.0	Day 6.
0:37.5	More information is available at MacoS can.com.
0:41.6	This show is also supported by the Mac OS can podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,
0:48.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:53.6	It took for the iPhone 5,
0:55.9	but Apple appears to have run through its first batch
0:58.4	of pre-order iPad minis in the States.
1:01.6	Both the white and silver model and the black and slate model
1:05.0	show shipping times having slipped from this Friday November 2nd
1:08.0	for the Wi-Fi-only device
1:10.0	to a shipping time of two weeks.
1:12.0	Interestingly, 9-5 max says it was the white and silver model that sold out first, not the black and slate number.
1:19.0	Of course, we don't know whether that means the white is suddenly more popular or maybe
1:23.4	Apple anticipated needing more of the black ones instead. Coming up later
1:28.0	we'll discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and later still we'll try to figure out why angels aren't
1:34.3	up to something much more important than that. It would seem the iPad mini is not
1:38.5	too expensive for everyone though Apple does seem to have left a price umbrella for the likes of the Google Nexus 7 and the Amazon Kindle Fire
1:46.5	HD. And boy oh boy is Amazon happy to point to the number of sales it saw after the iPad mini was announced. Of course it
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