Hey there, hi there, hellooo there, you're as welcome as can be to this special edition of Maco Ascan.

It is Thursday, December 26th, 2013, though the days are ticking away in 2013. Not all the days. That'd be a bummer, wouldn't it? Hey, happy holidays, guess what?

Welcome as I say to a special edition of Maco-askan. In a moment, another conversation with Jeff

Gamut. Yesterday we recapped some of the biggest stories of 2013 as far as Apple is

concerned.

We started the conversation by agreeing that China was one of the biggest stories of 2013 for Apple,

and so we proceeded to not talk about China at all.

Which seemed kind of silly.

So today he's joined us for a short conversation.

Short because we were short on time.

Are you like me, have you enjoyed having a little time off this past few days?

I had some time off. Yeah, I've been doing shows every day.

Well, I've made shows to be done every day but I've enjoyed

having the time you know what I'm finding I want more time and a great way to

get more time is to use Seine Box. Seainbox has sponsored this week's edition of Mac OS can.

I've actually sponsored MacoS Ken a few times this year and I'm hugely

appreciative of their sponsorship. I'm also hugely appreciative of their service. I told you

earlier this week they've got this little counter that sits in the bottom

right-hand corner of their website. If you go toainbox.com slash can you will see it. It says

number of minutes saved by Sainbox users and they claim that it's well over a

million. Now I've gotten emails from a lot of people saying that Sainbox does save

them a lot of time and I will say it saves me a lot of time as well. I've told you

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