Mac OS Ken: 11.28.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2012

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Research Firm Puts iOS at Top of US Smartphone Market for Three-Months ENding in October IDC: iOS and Android to Knock BlackBerry from Top Spot in Business This Year Apple Releasing New 21.5-Inch iMac This Friday 30 November GM Says Siri “Eyes Free” Mode to Land in Two Chevy Vehicles Early Next Year Bloomberg Report Says Apple Has Fired the Guy in Charge of Maps in iOS Barclays Bank Deploys Over 8,500 iPad Across UK Apple Releases Thunderbolt Firmware Update 1.1 for 2012 MacBook Pro Apple Issues OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Supplemental Update 2.0 for Macs Made in 2012 Apple Releases First Build of OS X 10.8.3 to Developers Amazon Plays Fun With Numbers Without Numbers for Thanksgiving Weekend Kindle Sales

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:10.0	iOS and Android play both enemy and ally, hitting the road and hitting the bricks, and
0:18.7	the iPad lands a big banking deal.
0:21.6	It's Wednesday, November 28, 2012. I'm Ken Ray and this is news
0:27.2	from MacO S. Ken. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to you
0:33.4	Subscribers to MacoS Ken Day 6
0:36.8	More information is available at MacoS Ken
0:40.0	dot com.
0:41.4	This show is also supported by the MacOS Can Podcast App for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch,
0:49.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:54.4	iOS is back to being the top smartphone platform in the States, at least for now, and at least
0:59.8	according to one firm.
1:01.3	9-to-5 Mac has research firm Cantar World Panel Comtech
1:05.2	saying that for the 12 weeks running from August through October,
1:08.7	iOS accounted for 48.1% of the US smartphone market. That's up 25% year over year according to the
1:17.8	piece and it officially bumps Android in the second place though it's not even as high as iOS has been in the last 12 months.
1:26.0	Earlier this year, Kantar had iOS as high as 49.3% in the States.
1:31.0	Android meanwhile was pushed down from 63.3% in the US earlier this year
1:37.1	to 46.7% at the end of October. Can these numbers last? I'm going to go with no. Or maybe not for long, since a lot of
1:47.4	iOS is 48.1% was likely thanks to the launch of the iPhone 5, which can pretty much only launch one time in the US.
1:56.5	Meanwhile, Android phones are still practically free to consumers on just about every carrier in the States,
2:02.1	but we'll see how it goes.
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