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Mac OS Ken: 12.05.2013

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2013

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

China Officially Grants 4G TD-LTE Licenses to China Unicom, China Telecom and China Mobile WSJ Says Apple and Chain Mobile Have Signed iPhone Deal; No Comment from Companies Munster Sees Conservative 17-Million China Mobile iPhone Customers in 2014 Localytics: iPad Air Activations Up 51% Over Black Friday Weekend; iPhone 5c up 26% Alternate Explanations for the Term Black Friday MacRumors Says Apple Retail IS Price Matching on iPad Air, iPhone 5c and Macs Chitika: iOS 7 Powers 74% of North American iPhones Icahn Issues Shareholder Proposal for More of Apple’s Money Judge Says Apple Issues with iBooks Overseer Not Her Problem Apple Reportedly Gives AppleCare Workers OS X 10.9.1 Apple Gives Away Holiday Music Sampler in US Through Store App on iPhone Get 10% Off of Your Squarespace Order with Coupon Code macosken12 at Squarespace.com/macosken

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0:00.0

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0:25.0

More buzz around China, I think Activations pop on Black Friday, and ICON Mounts in Attack.

0:35.0

It's Thursday, December 5th, 2013.

0:38.0

I'm Kan Ray and this is news from MacO-S-Kan, brought to you by yours truly and supported by IChart magazine.

0:47.0

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0:58.3

The Chinese government has officially issued 4G TDLTE licenses to China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom,

1:07.0

bringing the likelihood of a China mobile deal for the iPhone one step closer.

1:12.0

That is, unless you read the Wall Street Journal in which

1:14.9

case the deal is done. Starting first with the licenses the Mac observer says

1:19.8

the government issued those on Wednesday. Apple already has deals with China Telecom and China Unicom to sell the iPhone in China.

1:28.0

Additionally, the company's recently released iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S are both TD LTE compatible so the people who've already

1:37.2

bought those will have faster phones as soon as those carriers flip their proverbial switches.

1:42.3

And next to nobody cares. carriers flip their proverbial switches.

1:43.0

And next to nobody cares, because the whale is China Mobile.

1:48.0

The world's largest wireless carrier, China Mobile, has somewhere in the neighborhood of 759 million subscribers.

1:56.6

That's more than twice the number of people in the US.

2:00.2

And the Wall Street Journal says a deal has been signed between Apple and China Mobile

2:05.3

to sell iPhones to those 759 million people.

2:10.4

The Mac Observer says China Mobile has a media event plan for December 18th.

2:15.0

There the company will flesh out its 4G TD LTE plans.

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