Mac OS Ken: 12.28.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2012

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Flurry Analytics: 17.4 Million New Portable Devices Activated Worldwide on Christmas Day Distimo: App Store Downloads Up 87% on Christmas Day; App Store Revenues Up 70% Buzzfeed: First Tweets from iPads Rule Tablets on Christmas Day RW Baird Analyst Says Holiday Sales of Surface RT Seemed Weak at Best Buy and Staples Fortune Runs Pictures of Packed Apple Store and Practically Empty Microsoft and Sony Stores from one Mall on Christmas Eve Microsoft Announces Six New Retail Locations to Start 2013 Sesame Workshop Publishes “Best Practices Guide for Children’s App Development” Apple Device Thefts Leas to First Rise in Overall Crime in Two-Decades in NYC Apple Wins Patent for Creating Curved Glass without the Use of Chemicals Apple Announces Lucky Bag Promotion for Japan for 2 January Samsung Suing Apple for Alleged Patent Infringement Related to Notification Center for iOS

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:09.2	A banner day for iPads this week, a less than stellar day for
0:16.7	surfaces, and I-things are ruining the Big Apple. It's Friday, December 28th, 2012. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco
0:27.4	S. Can. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you
0:32.4	subscribers to MacoS can Day 6.
0:36.6	More information is available at MacoS can.com.
0:40.7	This show is also supported by the Mac OS Can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch,
0:47.0	available on the App Store now for $2.99.
0:52.0	A couple of analytics firms think Tuesday, aka Christmas Day, was a very good day for
0:57.6	iPad. Tech Crunch has App's Analytics Firm,
1:01.2	Flurry estimating the activation of 17.4 million new mobile devices
1:05.9	worldwide on December 25th.
1:08.8	The piece says Flurry's data covers a catalog of 260,000 apps that use its mobile analytics platform across Android,
1:15.5	iOS, and Amazon devices, and the firm claims it can account for roughly 90% of total new device
1:21.7	activations given its reach.
1:24.0	Flurry also looked at numbers running December 1st through the 20th and compared those to the 25th,
1:30.0	seeing an increase in activations of 332% on Christmas Day and an increase of 156% compared to Christmas
1:37.8	one year earlier.
1:40.0	App downloads were also up in a big, big way, with Flurry tracking
1:44.0	328 million app downloads on Christmas Day, a record high for a single
1:48.8	day since Flurry started measuring app downloads. That number was up 36% over app downloads of
1:55.1	242 million on Christmas of 2011. As far as device category,
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