Mac OS Ken: 11.05.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

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🗓️ 5 November 2012

⏱️ 17 minutes

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NYC 5th Ave Store: TMO Weighs the Length of the iPad mini Line NYC 5th Ave Store: Piper Jaffray Analyst Says iPad mini Launch Line the Third-Longest in Four Year; Topeka Capital Analyst Says All Sold Out in Two Hours and Ten Minutes Barrons: R.W. Baird Analyst Unfazed by Shorter Lines for iPad mini KGI Analyst Says Less Than a Million iPad minis Sold Last Weekend WOuld Still Put it on Top of the Mid-Size Tablet Market BTIG Analyst Says If iPad mini Sells Under 3-Million Units in First Weekend Than it is a Failure BGR: Apple Adding Next-Day Pickup Option for iPad mini Apple Shares See Friday Selloff; End Day Down 3.31% IHS Says 16GB Wifi-Only iPad mini Costs $188 in Pieces and Parts iFixit Gives iPad (4th Gen) 2 out of 10 for Repairability; Disappointed by Tablet’s Speakers IDC: Android Equals 75% of Smartphone Market Worldwide in 3Q, iOS Equals 14.9% comScroe: iOS and iPhone Gain Market Share in the States WSJ: Rumor Has Microsoft Testing Its Own Smartphone Rewritten Apple Statement on Samsung Starts Running in Newspapers in UK AMTRAK Adds Passbook Support to iPhone App

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN weighing Waying the length of lines, wondering how big the iPad mini has to be, and a look at the
0:18.0	never-ending phone fight.
0:20.0	It's Monday, November 5, 2012.
0:23.0	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacoS. Can.
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0:51.7	How did Ipad mini sales go over the weekend?
0:54.0	Defense on who you ask.
0:56.0	The Mac Observer says hundreds of people lined up at Apple's flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan,
1:01.0	that that's being viewed differently by different people.
1:04.0	For its own part, TMO says shorter lines at the NYC stores shouldn't be surprising for a couple of reasons.
1:10.0	For one, New York got the crap beaten out of it by Hurricane Sandy, just one week ago today, or four
1:16.2	days before Friday's iPad mini release.
1:19.7	Then there's the idea that the iPad mini just won't be the immediate barn burner that devices like
1:24.0	updated iPhones or the iPad too were. Can we put Friday's line into some kind of context though?
1:30.3	The Mac Observer has the Wall Street Journal saying,
1:33.0	the crowds at Apple's main store in New York looked noticeably smaller
1:37.0	than for the iPhone 5 launch in September,
1:39.0	but still impressive considering how disrupted the city remains following the storm.
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