Interesting Links for 16-11-2011

[andrewducker]

• Why RIM still hasn't found the cause of its world-wide Blackberry outage
  (tags: blackberry rim technology EpicFail complexity )
• Telegraph hires virulent homophobe as columnist
  (tags: lgbt homophobia telegraph media uk )
• Fail Upwards: Sometimes the best thing that can happen to you is not getting what you want.
  (tags: advice life failure )
• Android

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Chicken Little! http://www.ralphmag.org/spacemerchants2.html

[andrewducker]

Aaah, the Space Merchants. Awesome book!

(Not that I've read it in 15 years.)

[momentsmusicaux]

Ah super. My next comment was going to direct you to it if you didn't know of it :)

[undeadbydawn]

on smartphone sales alone, yes.

iPhone sales would be *vastly* higher if more physically existed.

I know this because it's taken me two weeks to obtain one [which arrives Saturday]. O2 stores in Scotland have had no stock for nearly a month. I cannot help but wonder how many people bought an Android rather than wait.

it is likewise unclear whether those statistics include the Touch - I'm guessing no - and they almost certainly don't include tablet sales, in which iOS remains overwhelmingly dominant.

as such, Android vs iOS is a rather misleading concept for these numbers.

I cannot help but wonder how long it will take for Americans to appreciate how fucking toxic Republicans are and just stop voting for them completely.
[not discounting how brain-meltingly useless most Democrats are]