You're probably lying about the cookie, but you now owe me one:

The reason the RIM BlackBerry Curve's outselling the iPhone 3G in Q1 was not newsworthy (as the iPhone in Japan is) is because...

* The Curve is sold by every provider in the US: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, TMobile. The iPhone is only sold by AT&T, meaning it has something like slightly more than a third of the Curve's reach (Sprint/TMobile are smaller than AT&T and Verizon). It's not newsworthy to discover that Dell is outselling Apple, but it would be newsworthy to find that Apple was outselling Dell.

* RIM has an established market for sales in the enterprise. Lots of companies sell users on BlackBerry phones, and even many iPhone users also carry a BB tied to their work.

* The BB Curve is a simpler phone. If the BB Storm were outselling the iPhone, that might be newsworthy, because RIM would be demonstrating its ability to outsell Apple in the touch/large screen form factor that differentiates Apple. The Storm has tanked.

* Q1 is one of Apple's weakest quarters for iPhone sales. Unlike other makers, iPhone sales are very cyclical because Apple trots out a new introduction every end of June like clockwork. That results in a huge surge in the fall quarter (when Apple outsold even RIM last year), another christmas surge in the winter quarter, but a rather anemic spring and summer quarter as early adopters saturate and people start anticipating the next big model to come.

Things that would/will be newsworthy:

* An Android model that outsells the iPhone
* A WiMo model that outsells the iPhone
* The Palm Pre outselling the iPhone
* A Symbian phone outselling the iPhone in the US

Things that are not newsworthy:

* Microsoft's PR attempts to suggest that global sales of all WiMo phones are close to or tied to sales of the iPhone itself
* Nokia's retention of a plurality of market share world wide (it's slipping too fast)
* Android half-assedly appearing on another model that its vendor won't really promote
* Palm still being in business (this might become newsworthy next year if it happens)
* RIM still selling lots of phones (this will become newsworthy if the company can't maintain it)
* Apple continuing to inhale all the oxygen in the US market despite being tied to AT&T's network.

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Being that I am Daniel Eran Dilger, I'll have to call you out here for making "shit up as you go along and claiming it's the truth."

Seriously, who are you, Sarah Palin?

The irony here is that everything I reported has found to fit the facts since, including the top popularity of the iPhone 3GS despite its being tied to the third largest carrier (and only GSM service in Japan). And the story you wanted to believe was exposed to be a sloppy fabrication. Do you have no shame Ms Palin?

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... and how ironic is it that the complainer who is alleging "soviet style bureaucracy creating mediocrity" is upset because he wanted to publish a boring book as an "application" rather than just putting his content on a web site?

Sounds like an ambulance chasing, nuisance lawsuit attorney complaining about the courts being backed up. Hey, here's a solution: get out of the way! There are lots of worthy apps in the App Store, just as there are lots of cool apps for any platform. Of course, for every great app, there are a hundred piles of crap, which is pretty much also the case on any other computing platform.

If anything, Apple is raising the signal to noise ratio in iTunes so that there's more good stuff available and it rises to to top better than every other mobile platform store. In Apple's wording, a meritocracy. I hear complaints from two sources: developers peddling crap, and users on other platforms "assuming" without examination that the iPhone app store probably isn't any better than Symbian/WinMobile/PalmOS/RIM etc. Well it obviously is, take a look before you criticize things. And consider who is doing the complaining. Given Apple's previous lack of experience in retailing software successfully, and its less than ideal record in catering to developers, the App Store is doing quite amazingly well.

Microsoft Bing share vs Google smaller than Safari vs IE

"led by an oligarchy of unremovable political parties"

Did you notice how the Republican administration and congress were removed in the last year? Maybe it took ten years of sheeping to get there, but the US eventually rejected the Republican party and moved forward, voting in numbers high enough to overcome rampant, orchestrated voter fraud by the Republicans. And when it because impossible to niggle, they (apart from Norm Coleman) stepped down without launching a military attack on civilians, and instead began cheating on their wives. Heck, don't cha know even Sarah Palin gave up and went fishing.

That doesn't happen in China. They run tanks over people who demonstrate. In the US, demonstrators are only occasionally shot or tazered.

Actually, Apple has been selling iPhones liberally in Singapore and Taiwan (?) with none of the restrictions it put on sales in the US and Europe precisely to create a black market supply for China.

The people getting the iPhone in China are not rice paddy peasants, they are the urban rich, and there are shitloads of them. The mobile market in China is already absurdly big. In a report on notes from Analyst Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros, AppleInsider wrote:

"[China Unicom,] the smaller of the two Chinese carriers has 'just' 133 million carriers compared to [state-run] China Mobile's 488 million but is in the middle of deploying a 3G cellular network that uses UMTS [rather than China-proprietary TD-SCDMA]."

AT&T & Verizon+Alltel in the US have around 78M and 80M subscribers respectively. That's why everyone is talking about China.

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How many Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones supported WiFi in Europe at the release of the iPhone?

How many US phones supported WiFi at the release of the iPhone? Not very many. Verizon Wireless had been staunchly opposed to functional WiFi (and Bluetooth) on its phones, and Apple essentially forced AT&T into being cool with WiFi because in 1997 AT&T could barely support the EDGE traffic generated by iPhone users.

Note that the China-export versions of Nokia's flagship N95 do not support WiFi, for the same reason.

And what are these anti-features of the iPhone? You mean a battery that doesn't fall out when you drop the phone? A camera with less than 8MP in its tiny sensor so that you can't record noise? A software platform that keeps requiring you to buy apps that don't exist for Symbian or other struggling platforms? A browser that not only works, but looks so good it has the rest of the industry in an embarrassed panic to clone it? Or are you just dropping turd bombs because you're bitter that Apple released a good product that a lot of people like?

Apple launches HTTP Live Streaming standard in iPhone 3.0

Wow, congratulations you said nothing!

The reason I cited RD is because I write RD. But you knew that, you're just being a troll with ad hominem attacks because you can't refute anything I wrote here or have ever written on RD. Sadly, typical.

Silverlight can only be "thought of as a sort of HTML 5" if you also sort of thought of Win32 as HTML 4.

Jesus Christ, it's just a clone of Flash that attempts to make Vista's .Net as a binary substitute for the open web.

And yes, Microsoft is desperately trying to compete with Chrome/Chrome OS/HTML 5, just like the company successfully killed Client-side Java and non-IE browsers as a threat to the Win32 monopoly, then sat back and let IE go rotten once it ruled the roost.

If you still live in the late 90s and think Microsoft is invincible and can decree standards by fiat with its monopoly share of the PC desktop and the web browser, let me welcome you to the 2000s, where:

- Microsoft's WMA/WMV-VC-1 codecs failed to kill or even matter in the face of MPEG H.264/ACC.
- Microsoft's HD-DVD + HDi failed against Blu-Ray and H.264 content in iTunes.
- Microsoft's ASF/AAF container files failed to win against QuickTime/MPEG-4 (with even MS now using MP4 in Smooth Streaming).
- Efforts to push Zune and PlaysForSure DRM and MS-DRM music subscriptions failed against the iPod and iTunes.
- Efforts to push Windows Mobile as a brand have collapsed in the face of the iPhone.
- Microsoft's IE monopoly over the web has shrunk down to 60% and continues a rapid decline as Firefox, Chrome and Safari eat up share.
- Microsoft's Windows monopoly is facing a global shrinking PC market, mass rejection of a heavyweight Vista/Win7 type operating system as systems move toward netbooks and ultra cheap PCs and laptops that can't support a fat OS, and the loss of the premium PC market for higher end systems to Apple.

Microsoft might be all you know, but it's time to start learning about alternatives or you'll be stuck with the dinosaurs.

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Wrong, HTML 5 is already implemented in Safari and Safari Mobile on the iPhone. It already supports audio/video tags and client side databases. Obviously things will continue to develop over the next few years, but its flatly inaccurate to talk about HTML 5 as if its several years out. It's here now, and its staunchly supported by the company that represents more than half of all mobile web traffic.

Firefox, Chrome and Opera area also on board. And remember when IE was the reason nothing every happened because it had 95% of the web audience? Well its under 60% now. Hard to believe. Another reason why HTML 5 will be huge:

Apple launches HTTP Live Streaming standard in iPhone 3.0

Or more accurately, Chrome OS will push HTML 5 apps, making Flash and MS Flash (Silverlight) obsolete.

Microsoft is already targeting Smooth Streaming as the trojan horse for pushing Silverlight (and already successfully managed to force anyone who wanted to watch the Olympics or the DNC last year to download Silverlight 2). However, Apple has done an end run around Microsoft by submitting very similar technology it calls HTTP Live Streaming to the IETF as a proposed standard, patterned after SHOUTcast/Icecast HTTP streaming of MP3 (basically upgrading Internet radio to Internet TV).

And while Microsoft dutifully tries to push Silverlight out as The Only Client of its Smooth Streaming, Apple already has shipped HTTP Live Streaming in iPhone 3.0 to its installed base of +40 million active mobile iPhone/iPod Touch users, with partners Akamai and big name MPEG transport stream encoder vendors. In contrast, Smooth Streaming is designed to tie streaming only to Microsoft's streamer, IIS, and Silverlight on the client (surprise!).

Any client that can play H.264/AAC audio/video from MPEG transport streams can play content targeted to the iPhone. You can serve it from any web server. You don't need to create an iPhone App to deliver content to the iPhone, it streams right from the web, right now. That means it will be easy for vendors such as Palm or Android to support streaming video targeted to the iPhone, despite having a much smaller installed base than the iPhone. And with the release of Snow Leopard, QuickTime X will stream HTTP Live Streaming from the desktop, and presumably, Apple TV.

This tears away the primary need for Flash or MS Flash (Silverlight), paving the way open for HTML 5 to push compliant browsers (FireFox, Opera, Safari, other WebKit browsers) into the forefront and leave a dwindling minority on IE 6/7/8 with Silverlight/Flash. Best, HTML 5 can provide fallback, offering HTTP Live Streaming as the first option, H.264 progressive download as a secondary, Ogg Theora for Wikipedia hosting videos that won't play on any mobile devices outside of the desktop PC, and Flash for the Neanderthals among us.

Apple launches HTTP Live Streaming standard in iPhone 3.0 : with a timeline and history of Internet streaming and links to example sites.

Yeah, Microsoft promises not to sue users to propagate Silverlight creep on Linux, as long as they are content to use an old version.

Silverlight = MS Flash: replacing the open web with a closed binary that only works well on Windows.

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Opera Mini isn't really a web browser, it's a Java ME client for Opera's proxy servers, which render pages and send a proprietary slimmed down version to the applet. There's nothing "standards compliant" about it.

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Microsoft hasn't released any apps for the iPhone, clearly indicating that it isn't a legitimate software company, but merely a marketing company that perpetuates the Windows monopoly.

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Market share implies a market. Comparing "Linux" to the iPhone is like comparing "a 10% increase" of two totally different numbers.

If you're talking about Linux on the desktop, then it can be compared to other desktop operating systems.

- It's hard to pinpoint how many Linux users there are, because .iso downloads are meaningless and Linux isn't represented in hardware sales as Mac OS X and Windows are.
- Browser logs give some idea of the installed base of Linux users, but compared to other PCs, it isn't very high. That's because most Linux PCs are acting as servers and not browsing the web as consumer oriented Macs and Windows PCs are.

If you're talking about Linux on mobile devices, then it can be compared to the iPhone.

- It's easier to identify the mobile market share of Linux, as it is tied to hardware. But Linux is rarely the platform on mobile devices. The Android, the Palm Pre, and many Motorola Chinese phones all use a Linux kernel, but it's not relevant to the platform or the software they run. The only mobile devices that are really Linux are maybe Nokia's failed Maemo tablets.
- Browser logs clearly indicate that despite only representing a sizable chunk of the smartphone market, Apple dominates the mobile web with more than 50% of mobile web traffic.

While it's true that mobile traffic doesn't compare with desktop traffic volumes, it is clearly the future and has the potential to dramatically alter the computing landscape. So Microsoft's current ~60% of the desktop (who'd have thought!) is close to Apple's share of the mobile web. That gives Apple the ability to push HTML 5 and the use of open standards, including ISO MPEG H.264 and Apple's IETF-proposed HTTP Live streaming protocol on the iPhone, the opposite of what Microsoft has done over the last 15 years to tie every standard to its own proprietary platform: Windows.

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Mac OS X Leopard, obviously.

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