Mac OS Ken: 12.12.2013

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Walmart Slashing iPhone 5c to $27; Lowering Other Apple Prices in Holiday Sale Deutsche Bank Says in Laptop Race to Bottom, the Winner is iPad Apple Adds Four New Channels to Apple TV in U.S. Bloomberg Devs Talk Ease of Development for Apple TV Southwest Launches $2 In-Flight iMessage Plan Personal Tech Gets Gate-to-Gate Okay in EU Spotify Ads Free Service for Mobiles Spotify Adds Led Zeppelin to Its Catalogue Rdio Rolls Pid Service Out to 20 dditional Ntions Report: Foxconn Launching Incubator for Wearables Father of iPod Likely Buyer of (RED) Mac Pro

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:10.0	Remember, folks, it's always.
0:09.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:12.0	Remember, folks, it's always low prices, four new channels for Apple TV, and the skies get
0:19.7	more consumer tech friendly.
0:22.0	It's Thursday, December 12, 2013. I'm Ken Ray and this is news
0:27.0	from MacoS Ken. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by IChart magazine putting Apple and Tech News in focus
0:35.3	EY E E E E E E E E E E E E-Chart magazine available for iOS newsstand now.
0:43.0	Losing a little money to make a lot of money.
0:46.0	That may be the Walmart way when it comes to one iPhone.
0:49.0	The Los Angeles Times says is part of a holiday sale that starts tomorrow and runs through Christmas Eve,
0:55.0	Walmart will cut the price of the iPhone 5C down to 27 bucks.
1:00.0	That's with a two-year contract from either Verizon or AT&T.
1:04.0	Now the LA Times seems to think the offer is a sign of trouble for Apple's unapologetically
1:09.1	plastic phone.
1:10.1	Quoting the reports, the iPhone 5c has struggled to sell and Walmart has been
1:15.1	discounting it since it was released in September. It is worth remembering
1:20.0	however this report is from the LA Times, not Barons or Forbes or some other paper that one might think of as having a head for this kind of business.
1:30.0	AT&T and Verizon are paying whatever subsidies they're paying for the iPhone 5c, at least for now.
1:37.0	For argument's sake, let's say that subsidy is $450.
1:41.0	Big Red in the Death Star will pay that $450 subsidy, whether Walmart sells the phone to the
1:46.7	consumer for $99 or $27. The hit being taken is being taken by Walmart to the tune of 72 Box or $99 minus 27
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