One-Day Mindful Month Challenge - MOSK: 10.08.2025

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Ken Ray

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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- NikkeiPoint: Huawei Took Top Spot in Smartwatches for First Time Ever in Q2 - Apple Seeds Second Public Betas of blankOS 26.1 to Developers - Apple Updates Firmware for Relatively Recent AirPods - Report: Apple Intelligence Problem Fixed on Affected iPhone 17 and iPhone Air Units - New iPhones Hit Indonesia on 17 October - Rumor Has Former NPR Podcast Exec Joining Apple - Mindful Moth Apple Watch Challenge Set for Friday 10 October - Sponsored by CleanMyMac - Now with Cloud Cleanup. Try 7 days free and use code MACOSKEN20 for 20% off at clnmy.com/MACOSKEN - Japan's biggest brewery under cyberattack, and why your company's anti-phishing training isn't working on Checklist No. 443 - Find it today at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @[email protected] - Send Ken an email: [email protected] - Chat with us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken

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0:00.0	This is MacOS Ken.
0:08.9	Weird words around wearables, public OS betas, and tiny updates,
0:13.7	and a mindfulness challenge to stress you out.
0:18.2	It is Wednesday, the 8th of October, 2025.
0:21.8	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacOS Ken.
0:27.1	Brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Clean My Mac, now with Cloud Cleanup.
0:34.0	Try it free for seven days and use code MacOS Ken 20 for 20% off at CLNMY.com slash macOS Ken.
0:45.7	This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through Patreon.
0:53.1	Find out more in than your support at patreon.com slash
0:58.8	macOS can.
1:02.1	An interesting bit of news from a circular set of sources.
1:07.2	Apple 3.0 posted part of a Niki piece on Tuesday.
1:19.1	That had Counterpoint Research saying smartwatches from Huawei have overtaken Apple Watch for the first time ever.
1:29.7	According to Niki, global smartwatch shipments in the April to June period rose 8% year-on-year to 34.4 million units, according to Counterpoint Research. Huawei saw a 53% increase to around 7.2 million units, taking the top spot for the
1:38.2	first time with a 21% global market share. Now, checking Counterpoint only yields three paragraphs, one of which was the one I just read
1:49.4	from Niki.
1:50.9	If you click to read more, it takes you to the Niki report, which is weird.
1:58.6	One of the paragraphs from Counterpoint points out,
2:01.7	Huawei's prices are a reason for the popularity. The average price of its
2:06.6	smart watches is $227, roughly half the average $413 price of Apple watches, according
2:14.9	to Counterpoint Research. That paragraph is also in the Niki piece, verbatim.
2:22.5	Kind of makes you wonder who is being quoted by whom, and maybe more importantly, who did the actual research?
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