How likely is it that some 3rd party analytics firm has sales data from the Apple stores. And it explicitly only includes retail.

With Apple having such a large retail presence for iPhones and a large online operation as well it seems like the iPhones would be heavily undercounted in this survey.

So yeah. That's not how tax brackets work. The scenario you describe never happens.

Except that the wholesaler and store and telco can return unsold inventory at some point in the future and expect it's money back. If a lot of devices are on their shelves and not selling they may do just that.

Also, If shipped is much higher than sold stock sits in a warehouse and they order less or none next time. Future shipments drop like a rock.

If everything shipped is sold than future shipments stay high as everyone keeps ordering more to keep selling.

Watch the numbers over time. If shipments drop off a cliff you know what's still sitting on shelves.

What they don't mention is that every "wonderful new software update" by Apple came (until after the new iOS 5 release) in the form of a 500+ megabyte software download that was only accessible through iTunes. Never mind that the Android updates are all on the order of 2-100MB and most are available over the air, that would distract from the reader's impression that Apple devices were superior in every way possible

Seriously?

The iPhone user has to wait 'til they get home, plug in and then wait an extra 15 minutes for the download. But updates for all phones are available at the same time. With an iPhone when I read about a new update available I know it'll be there once I get home.

The Android user gets a shorter download but it's rolled out to each phone at a different time and inside each phone the updates get rolled out over time. With an Android phone, even if it's available for my phone model it not be available for my phone for a week.

Different issues, both are frustrations of one sort or another but it's not the major win for Android that you imply. Plus this really only occur a couple times a year anyway.

why not have a simple page that grabs the current time, loads a page in the iframe, when the iframe triggers it's ready() event, grab the current time and compare against the start for a load time analysis?

Because that may not be correct either. In their iPad 2 preview Anandtech went back to manual timing of web page loading because

"It turns out that Honeycomb's browser was stopping our page load timer sooner than iOS', which resulted in some funny numbers when we got to the 4.3/Honeycomb comparison. To ensure accuracy we went back to timing by hand (each test was repeated at least 5 times and we present an average of the results)."

While they don't talk about their method (either) they decided they couldn't trust whatever automated system they had. Obviously there are all kinds of assumptions and differences in the test bed but the basic point is you can't necessarily trust the browser to tell you when it's ready either as an embedded view or stand alone browser.

And what did Android look like in January 2007 when the iPhone was announced? I dunno, but I found photos from January 2008.

The gawker staff accounts is a different issue, but forcing you to have an account just to comment caused lot of this problem.

I used one of these accounts once to post a comment and don't even remember the password. It's probably a crap password but because I don't remember it I needed to change everything else. Thanks Gawker

It requires effort on Apple's part to make these things changeable and tweakable. That's effort on top of the effort to get it to "just work". They appear to have come to the conclusion that they get better results, however they judge that, by spending those resources on different work and features rather than adding reconfigurability to existing features.

Some companies do enough work to get the system working. Others get it working and then spend effort adding the kind of configurability you want. Apple does gets it working and spends extra effort on it's style of polish. I can't think of anyone that does both Apple's type of UI polish and high configurability. Each of these companies is doing what they feel is worth most to them and at least indirectly what it feels it can use to appeal to customers.

Each style offers the companies and customers trades offs between different values and everybody makes different decisions based on their preferences.

You have freedom of choice, choose to buy something else. It seems like you just don't want others to make the choice you wouldn't

Unfortunately, the SDK agreement explicitly says that the code must be originally written in one of the approved languages (C, C++, Objective-C). And yes, technically this means that any use of inline assembler is forbidden (e.g. to optimize part of a 3D engine, even the rest is completely written in C), which does not make any sense whatsoever either.

It makes plenty of sense if you don't assume that the iPhone will always have same CPU architecture.

[blockquote]What am I missing here?[/blockquote]

The fact that you're wrong. You should actually try things instead of just doing thought experiments.

On a touch in safari when you click on a youtube video it opens the video in the youtube player and plays just fine. This works if the video came from youtube.com directly or was embedded in another site.

It was a tough choice between modding this funny and replying to explain the joke. 5 of the first 10 links are to the same crappy article from a guy who didn't want it in the first place, 1 is a guy who's returning his for an upgrade to more storage and 3g and the rest aren't relevant, including an apple support page.

Pretty big chorus there guy.

Really? He said that? How incredibly surprising.

Japan has had 3D over the air broadcast for a while now. Channel BS11 shows several hours of 3D every day. You can get a special Hyundai TV that detects and plays the 3D.

Modern 3D uses circular polarized glasses. Linear Polarized glassed require that your head uncomfortably still because if you tip your head you got ghosting.

If you saw 3D in a theater 10, 20 years ago you were wearing linear polarized glasses. If you did you might remember the neck pain you came out of the theater with.