Mac OS Ken: 12.30.2014

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

- Flurry: Over Half of Device Activations Christmas Week Were iThings - Stifel Nicolaus Analyst Sees Up to 75-Million iPhones Shipped for Holiday Quarter - Rumor: Iovine Working on Album Exclusives for iTunes - Xiaomi Secures Valued at 45-Billion Dollars - Report: Xiaomi Set to Steal Design of MacBook Air on the Way Into Laptops - Apple Gives EU Consumers 14-Days to Return iTunes Purchases - Russian Online Apple Store Reopens with Higher Prices - Apple Issues Update for Critical Security Issue for Macs - Apple Sets Japan Lucky Bag Promotion for This Friday - December Spaceship Video Shows Significant Progress - Apple Keeping 100-Year-Old Barn on Spaceship Campus - lynda.com: Learn Apple software, plus business and creative skills, from easy-to-follow video tutorials at .

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:10.0	I think is
0:09.0	This is Mac OSKinn.
0:12.0	I Things owned the holidays.
0:15.0	Jimmy Iovine may be up to something, and rumor of another apple knockoff from
0:19.6	Chau-Mee.
0:21.3	It's Tuesday the 30th of December 2014. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco
0:28.4	as Ken brought to you by yours truly and supported by IChart magazine putting Apple and Tech News in
0:35.1	focus EY E I Chart magazine available for iOS newsstand now.
0:43.6	It appears to have been an eye thing, christmasy, Hanukah e, holiday season.
0:48.7	Apple and Cider has new numbers from ad platform and mobile analytics firm Flurry, according to the firm's
0:54.7	tracking just over half of all mobile devices activated in the US from the 19th of December
0:59.7	through the 25th of December were Apple products. By Flurry's Reckoning Apple phones and tablets
1:06.0	accounted for 51.3% of newly activated devices for the period. Samsung was a way distant second,
1:12.3	accounting for 17.7% of the holiday week activations.
1:15.4	Nokia wasn't even more distant third with a 5.8% share.
1:19.2	Sony was fourth claiming 1.6% of the market and LG rounded out the top five with a
1:25.0	spec-like 1.4%. Quoted on the numbers Jara Houston, Flurry VP of
1:31.6	analytics and marketing who said while the holidays in general and Christmas
1:35.4	in particular are not the sole indicator of the smartphone market share and trends, it is safe to
1:40.9	say that Apple's newly released iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus have had a blockbuster holiday season,
1:47.0	despite a lackluster holiday season for the consumer electronics industry.
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