Mac OS Ken: 11.17.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2011

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Iger Gets a Tiny Amount of Money for Iger for Joining Apple Board of Directors / Jobs Bio: New Chairman of Apple Board Thinks Apple Needs to Check Its Hubris / AT&T Says Churn Unchanged Since Loss of iPhone Exclusivity / German Site Says New iOS 5 Update to Really Fix Battery Issues This Time Due By End of Next Week / GMail App for iOS Returns to App Store (Bug Free!) / Juniper Global Threat Center Says Android Malware Up 472-Percent Since July / Samsung Makes a Second Run at Germany with a Slightly Redesigned and Slightly Renamed 10-Inch Galaxy Tab / Chinese Environmentalist Says Apple Working on Cleaning Up Pollution in the Supply Chain / Business Insider Runs Down Features of Google Music / Another Look at Google Music from TechCrunch / T-Mobile Partners with Google Music for Customer Billing / Legendary Photographer Annie Liebovitz Names iPhone “the Snapshot Camera of Today” / Stanford iOS 5 App Development Course Available through iTunes U

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0:00.0	This is MacOS Ken.
0:16.8	Learning more about the changes to Apple's board, AT&T says virtually no one's leaving the Death Star and taking a look at Google Music.
0:20.7	It's Thursday, November 17, 2011.
0:23.6	I'm Kan Ray, and this is news from Maco-S-Can.
0:28.4	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you,
0:32.3	subscribers to Mac- can Day six.
0:36.0	More information is available at MacOS can.com.
0:40.2	This show is also supported by the MacoS Can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,
0:47.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:52.0	Apple's newest board member will get a few bucks and a few shares of Apple stock for his troubles.
0:57.0	CNET cites a filing made by Apple yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission
1:02.0	that says Disney
1:03.1	president and CEO Bob Eiger will receive the standard $50,000 annual
1:07.6	retainer paid out in quarterly installments as well as 142 shares of Apple stock valued at about $55,000 as of yesterday's
1:17.1	closing price. Those will vest in February of next year. Sounds like a lot, though for Eiger it's practically a negligible
1:25.1	amount. His base salary as CEO of Disney was about 2.8 million dollars
1:30.3	last year, though between performance bonuses and annual equity awards,
1:35.0	CNET says he took in somewhere in the neighborhood of $28 million.
1:40.0	As for the other change to Apple's board this week, what can the world expect from new chairman of the board Art Levenson?
1:46.6	Business Insider gleans a few clues from the Walter Isakson biography of Steve Jobs.
1:52.2	According to the piece, Levenson was one of the key people who pushed for an iOS App Store.
1:57.0	Initially, Jobs didn't want one because he didn't want people messing with the phone.
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