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Mac OS Ken: 12.04.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2012

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

China Unicom Sees 100,000 Pre-Orders for iPhone 5 on First Day of Availability Apple Launching iPhone 5 in 50 New Countries Before End of 2012 Wait Times for iPhone 5 Drop to 2-to-4 Business Days on Apple Site Canaccord Genuity Sees Sales on 47.5 Million iPhones in the December Quarter Yahoo!: iPhone 5 Second Most Searched Term in U.S. in 2012 Yahoo!: Amazon Kindle Most Searched for Gadget in UK in 2012; Third Overall Apple Launches iTunes Store in Russia, Turkey, India, South Africa and 52 Other Countries iMore: Apple Now Sells Music in 118 Countries and Movies in 66 Countries Some Off-the-Shelf iMacs Sporting “Assembled in USA” Inscription Apple Seeds iOS 6.1 beta 3 to Developers Judge Lucy Koh Says All But Financial Details of Settlement Between Apple and HTC Should Be Made Public News Corp. Pulls the Plug on The Daily Ashton Kutcher/Steve Jobs Bio-Pic to Premier at 2013 Sundance Film Festival

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0:00.0

This is Mac OSKIN.

0:10.0

More iPhones and more country. more iPhones

0:14.2

and more countries the iTunes store gets a major push internationally and

0:18.4

iMacs made in the USA it's Tuesday, December 4, 2012.

0:23.9

I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacO.S.

0:27.8

Can.

0:28.8

Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to Mac OS can Day 6.

0:36.6

More information is available at Mac OS can.com.

0:40.9

This show is also supported by the Mac OS can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod

0:46.9

touch, available in the App Store now for $2.99. Last week Apple announced that it would be bringing dollars and 99 cents.

0:53.2

Last week Apple announced that it would be bringing iPhone 5 to a number of countries by the

0:57.3

middle of this month.

0:59.4

That number was won and that country was China, home to the largest cell phone customer base on the planet.

1:06.0

How's that going so far?

1:08.0

Well, participating carriers there seem excited, though the numbers they've announced seem small in a country of over a billion people. The next web highlights a report from Sinat Tech that had China Unicom, second largest cell carrier in China saying that reservations

1:25.2

for iPhone 5 on Monday quickly hit 100,000 online free orders in a country of over a billion people.

1:34.0

China Telecom meanwhile says it received 5,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 5 on Sunday,

1:40.0

though that number is a bit wacky since China Telecom branches have actually

1:44.0

been registering pre-orders for weeks,

1:46.0

well ahead of Apple's announcement

1:48.0

that iPhone 5 was officially coming to China.

1:51.0

But China is so last week.

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