Mac OS Ken: 11.28.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2011

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

NPD VP Sees Bad Sales This Holiday Season Thanks to Economy and Changes in Technology / IBM and comScore Say “Black Friday” Buying Online Up About 25-Percent / IBM: iOS Devices Account for 10-Percent of Online Retail Sales on “Black Friday” / 9 to 5 Mac Source Says Apple Smashes “Black Friday” Forecasts and Records / Best Buy Runs Holiday TV Spot Centered Around Apple Gear / Apple Runs Something Rare: A TV Commercial for an iPod / GfK: iPhone Users Most Likely to Stay with Their Smartphone Platform / HTC Lowers Guidance Due to Competition and Economic Concerns / HTC Reconsidering S3 Graphics Purchase After S3 Loss Against Apple / Foxconn Appears to Be Producing iPhones in Brazil for Brazil / Jefferies and Company Analyst Says Work Under Way on Next iPad, iPhone, and Maybe the Apple TV / WSJ Says Sharp Ramping LCD Panel Production for Next iPad / Macotakara Hears Talk of iPad 4 and Unspecified iOS Device with 4-Inch LCD / Apple Posts “Arriving Soon” Sign Outside Grand Central Terminal Store / First Subscription Game App Pulled from App Store on Day of Release / USPTO Presentation Commemorates Inventions and Trademarks of Steve Jobs

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0:00.0	This is MacOS.C.
0:08.0	A look at Apple and Holiday shopping.
0:08.0	A look at Apple and holiday shopping, iPhone owners ain't going nowhere, and the next
0:16.9	eye things, and the ones after those, it's Monday, November 28, 2011.
0:22.8	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from Maco S. Ken.
0:27.6	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you,
0:31.4	subscribers to Maco can Day six.
0:35.0	More information is available at MacOS can.com.
0:39.1	This show is also supported by the MacOS can
0:41.7	podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch,
0:46.1	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:51.2	An interesting take on holiday sales from NPD group.
0:54.6	They may be awful this season, the worst since 2008.
0:59.5	Electronista has NPD VP Stephen Baker blaming anxiety over the economy and changes in technology
1:06.0	for the anticipated suckiness. According to the Abel Baker, sales of things that used to be
1:11.8	big sellers like cameras, GPS devices and MP3 players are all expected to fall.
1:18.0	Though as the piece points out, and Baker does not, there's a whole host of smartphones out there now that does all that stuff in one unit.
1:25.0	Baker also seems to see the lack of real competition for Apple's
1:29.3	iPad as a potential weak spot for holiday sales.
1:33.2	While overall sales may end up sucking wind, online sales for Black Friday appear to have
1:37.8	been bigger than ever.
1:40.2	Tech Crunch says both IBM and Comscore saw huge increases in online sales the day after the
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