Mac OS Ken: 12.11.2015

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

- FBR Analyst: Time for Apple to Buy Something Big - A Look at Stats from Glance: A Daylong Apple Watch Conference - A Look at the Apps Landscape for Apple TV - Apple to Launch iPad Pro in India Next Week - iFixit Tears Into Smart Battery Case for iPhone 6/6s - ASUS and LG Take Shots at the Hunchback of Cupertino - Walmart Launching Mobile Payment Service Exclusively for Walmart Stores - Senator Graham Calls for Backdoor Into Consumer Encryption - Application Developers Alliance Argues for Encryption for Consumers - Steve Jobs Biopic Picks Up Four Golden Globe Nominations - Have you subscribed to EYE Chart Radio Yet? You should! Find it in iTunes! - 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	spending apples money again, poking fun at the hunchback of Cupertino, and the encryption fight
0:18.0	continues.
0:19.0	It's Friday the 11th of December 2015, I Can Ray and this is news from Maco-S-Can
0:26.4	brought to you by yours truly and sponsored this week by Squarespace. Start
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0:39.8	build it beautiful. There has to be nothing more annoying for Apple execs than when financial analysts get
0:47.7	bored. I'll be honest, sometimes I get bored with Apple News, but I keep doing it anyway because it's what I do and because I didn't go into a field where I could just make stuff up.
0:59.0	Would that I'd become a financial analyst instead?
1:02.0	Barons had FPR and company analyst instead.
1:02.8	Barons had FBI and company analyst Daniel Ives issuing a note on Thursday saying
1:07.1	Apple and CEO Tim Cook are entering a critical juncture from a product, growth, and strategic perspective, one that
1:14.9	apparently requires them to buy something big. 2016, Ives argues will be
1:20.7	anticipating iPhone rhymes with heaven and worrying over iPhone 6S
1:25.7	sales. Past that, sure there's Apple's anticipated move into autos and maybe a
1:30.9	virtual reality something, but Apple has a war chest of over 200 billion dollars and growing.
1:37.0	Companies aren't going to buy themselves.
1:40.0	They accept they do all the time by repurchasing their own stock, but you get the idea.
1:44.0	Ives is of the opinion that GoPro would be a good idea for Apple to buy.
1:48.0	That's tech, he thinks the Cupertino company could fold into such concrete things as the iPhone line as well as
1:54.3	such theoretical things as plays in virtual reality and augmented reality.
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