Mac OS Ken: 12.29.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2011

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Flurry Analytics: Christmas Day Activations of iOS and Android Devices Hits 6.8-Million / Fortune: iOS Christmas-Day Activations Likely Beat Android Activations by 1.6-Million Units / IBM Benchmark: iOS Accounted for 13.4-Percent of All Online Sales on Christmas Day / comScore: 20-Percent of Online Spending on Christmas Day was on Apps and Digital Media / CNET: Anobit Purchase Could Do for Apple What PA Semi Did / Apple Awarded Core Multitouch Patent / UK PM to Get Personalized iPad App to Help Run Country / Poland’s Parliament Switching from Paper to Digital with iPad 2s / Apple Reportedly Hiring for First Retail Location in Berlin / Argentina Bans Sales of iPhones and BlackBerries Until They’re Built in Argentina / 9 to 5 Mac: iTunes Connect Reconnects a Day Early / WSJ: Apple is Doing Something in Television and Anything Could Happen / Wu: Content is Key in Any Apple Television Play / Electronista: Far-East Reports Have Component Production for Apple Televisions Starting as Early as Last Month / Electronista: Other Far-East Reports Have Apple Finalizing Television Design By Summer for Late 2012 Launch

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:07.0	Mobile goes big for the baby Jesus, a no bit could be another PA semi and a boat load of TV talk on tap.
0:19.6	It's Thursday, December 29, 2011.
0:23.2	I'm Kan Ray, and this is news from Maco S. Can.
0:28.2	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you,
0:32.2	subscribers to MacOS can day six.
0:35.6	More information is available at MacOS can.
0:39.7	This show is also supported by the MacoS Can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,
0:47.4	available in the App Store now for $2.99. Stunning. Stunningunning though not necessarily surprising.
0:55.0	Apple Insider has Flurry Analytics saying that activations for iOS and Android devices on
1:01.0	December 25th were up
1:03.1	353% versus December days leading up to Christmas.
1:08.4	By their reckoning, the first 20 days of the month
1:10.5	saw activations of about 1.5 million mobiles a day running the two operating systems,
1:16.4	though that number jumped to 6.8 million in honor of the arrival of the tiny infant baby Jesus. That whipped the tar out of the
1:23.7	time of the tiny infant baby Jesus. That whipped the tar out of the previous one day record
1:26.0	Christmas of 2010 which saw roughly 2.8 million activations for devices
1:30.8	running the two operating systems representing representing growth of more than 140% year over year.
1:38.0	More I-things and Androids mean more app downloads as well.
1:42.0	Average number of downloads for the first 20 days of the month,
1:45.2	108 million a day.
1:47.9	As for the 25th, 242 million,
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