Mac OS Ken: 12.08.2015

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

- IDC Sees PC Sales Slide Continuing Through Holiday Quarter - Apple Ups iTunes Match and iCloud Music Library Tracks Above 25k - Craig Federighi Talks Code and Importance of Tech in Education - Apple Offing One to One Group Training on 17 December - Apple Cancels In-Store Event for Tokyo Store after Bomb Threat - Apple Says Its Maps App Used 3x More than Google Maps on iThings - Volvo Rolling CarPlay Out in Old and New XC90s - Dropbox Killing Mailbox and Carousel in Early 2016 - Facebook Kills Creative Labs Unit; Pulls Creative Labs Apps - iTunes Store Nabs Exclusive Collection of Beatles Video - The Beatles: 1+ - Get 10% Off of Your Squarespace Order with Coupon Code macosken at - Send me an email: or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKinn.
0:07.0	This is Mac OS Ken.
0:12.0	Computers keep sliding. More songs head heavenward, and the haremaster on the importance of code.
0:18.0	It's Tuesday the 8th of December 2015, I'm Kanray, and this is news from Maco-S-Can brought to you by yours truly and
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0:41.5	Whatever you're giving or receiving for the holidays is a pretty good chance it is not a computer.
0:46.5	Cult of Mac has new numbers from I. D.C. that show the downhill sleigh ride being taken
0:51.1	by traditional computers will continue right through the holidays.
0:55.2	According to the piece, PC shipments are expected to drop 10% during the fourth quarter of 2015,
1:00.0	predicts IEDC in its most recent PC tracker report, the less than stellar quarter will bring year-over-year
1:06.3	growth for all of 2015 down to negative 10.3 percent. While Max Sales will almost definitely do better than the PC market as a whole,
1:15.9	there's no indication in the piece that the Mac will be the hot holiday gift this year.
1:20.8	Black Friday indications where the computing money was going primarily for iPads, either the
1:25.9	iPad Air2 or iPad Mini for the most part.
1:29.1	I. D.C. says tablet sales have eaten most of the market share that used to go to PCs though a lot of people
1:34.8	are just holding on to their tech for longer periods of time.
1:38.5	Lorne Leverd, I.C. VP of PC research was quoted in the piece as saying,
1:43.4	despite the substantial shift in spending and usage models from PCs toward
1:47.5	tablets and phones in recent years, very few people are giving up on their
1:51.6	PC. They're just making it last longer.
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