Mac OS Ken: 11.23.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2011

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

WSJ: Apple Recruiting Execs with Background in Web-Based Software / Credit Suisse Sees Hard Times for RIM Thanks in Part to the Lower-Cost iPhone 3GS / Jefferies and Co. Analyst Lowers iPad Sales Expectations; Says Bad News Around iPad Overblown / NPD: HP a Surprise Second in US Tablet Sales for First Ten Months of the Year / Apple Approves First Subscription Game App for iPad from Big Fish Games / Royal Caribbean Outfitting a Line of Ships with iPads for Passengers / Apple Takes Ownership of iPhone Related Domains That Had Linked to Porn / Apple’s Grand Central Terminal Store Will Apparently Miss Black Friday / Most Apple Store Opening Between “Kind of Early” and “Wicked Early” for Black Friday / Apple Teases 25 November Sales Event for UK Online Store / Ron Johnson Writes a Retail Manifesto / Aaron Sorkin Considering Writing Screenplay for Steve Jobs Bio-Pic

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0:00.0	This is MacOS Ken.
0:11.6	Apple looks for a Sky Captain looking at sales of eye things and a few takes on
0:16.3	retail and the impending darkness. It's Wednesday November 23rd 2011. I'm Ken Ray and this is news. on like you subscribers to Mac OS can Day 6.
0:34.4	More information is available at MacoS can.com.
0:38.6	This show is also supported by the Mac OS can podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, available in the
0:46.4	App Store now for $2.99.
0:50.8	Apple's got a whole big iCloud. Now they're looking for somebody to run it.
0:55.4	Seen that highlights a Wall Street journal piece that says the All Things I Maker is
0:59.7	reportedly looking to bring aboard executives with backgrounds in web-based software.
1:05.0	The journal says one high profile, though unidentified candidate has already been approached by the company.
1:11.0	Whoever they land will theoretically be in charge of services such as iTunes
1:15.4	match and iCloud.
1:18.2	It's one of those things that seems like a no-brainer, though it's still worth putting some
1:22.2	thought into. So a some-brainer, though it's still worth putting some thought into.
1:24.0	So a sum-brainer maybe.
1:25.8	Fortune says Credit Suisse has issued a 36-page report on iPhone price elasticity,
1:32.0	or put another way, how many more could we sell if we sold them for less?
1:36.7	Lots appears to be the answer.
1:39.1	And there's the no-brainer bit.
1:40.8	On the some-brainer side, though, how does it work and who gets hurt?
1:45.4	The Credit Suisse crew figures Apple is selling the 3GS to carriers for somewhere in the
1:49.6	neighborhood of $325 each, a range in which the company has never played before.
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