Mac OS Ken: 12.30.2013

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2013

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Topsy Twitter Evidence Points to iPad Christmas Flurry: Christmas Day iPad Activations Up Over 2x; Kindles Up 24x Some San Diego Target Stores See School Supplies Sold in iPod Boxes Amazon Adds 1-Million New Prime Members in Third-Week of December Nokia Pulls HERE Maps from iOS App Store OWC Teardown Indicates Aspects of Mac Pro Are User Upgradable FutureLooks: Replicating Mac Pro as PC Costs $2,000 More Chromebooks Lay Waste to Everything Else in Small Sliver of Small Sliver of Survey Turkey Eyes iPad for National Education Push Trouble for Turkish PM Could Jeopardize iPad Deal Apple Asks Shareholders to Vote Against Board Committee on Human Rights; Icahn-Backed Return of Capital Dow Jones: Google Most “Talked About” Company in 2013

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:10.0	Still more signs of a night than Christmas breaking and building a new Mac Pro and
0:18.1	Apple asks shareholders to reject Carl Icon.
0:22.0	It's Monday, December 30th, 2013. I'm Can Ray and this is news from Maco
0:27.6	S. Can. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by IChart magazine putting Apple and Tech News in focus
0:35.1	EY E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
0:37.0	IChart magazine available for iOS newsstand now.
0:40.9	More signs that it was an iPad and I thing Christmas again both anecdotally
0:46.4	and statistically. On the anecdotal front fortune on Friday had word of new
0:50.9	numbers using a tool from topsy analytics. Topsy is the
0:55.0	Twitter analyzer that Apple purchased earlier this year.
0:58.0	Fortune's Philip Elmer DeWitt says topsy's Twitter search engine will count
1:02.0	tweets for whatever phrase you enter to get the
1:05.4	lay of the tablet land. Elmer DeWitt ran a search for the phrases got
1:09.1	iPad, got note, got Kindle, and got Surface.
1:14.0	According to his search, got iPad, one far and away with 120,608 hits.
1:20.0	Got Note was second with 46,217 hits, though he says that that search could have included some false positives since hits could have referred to getting a note from someone rather than getting a proper noun note.
1:33.0	Got Kindle hit third with 15,566 responses.
1:38.0	Got Surface was a distant last place finish in Elmerdwych's search with 4,177 hits.
1:47.2	From anecdotal 2 statistical, Apple Insider has Christmas Day numbers from mobile ad platform Flurry Analytics that show
1:54.6	activations of Apple devices more than doubled from Christmas Day 2012 to
1:59.2	Christmas Day 2013. That likely indicates a huge number of iPads, though without hard numbers, it's hard to say.
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